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Le Désert

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Wed 21 Jun → Sun 05 Nov 2000
William Eggleston Déserts de Californie, de l'Arizona et de l'Utah 2000
Vue de l'exposition de William Eggleston - Déserts de Californie, de l'Arizona et de l'Utah © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

The desert is an exhibition of images and films that places 19th century photography face to face with a group of commissioned projects executed by ten artists. On the occasion of the exhibition, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain decided to take an exceptional approach and invited six artists to travel to the desert in Egypt, Mali, Australia, and the United States, and four others to “travel” through images of the desert.

Leaping in time from 19th century adventurer-photographers to contemporary artists, this exhibition focuses on the desert-as-landscape. A space of unity, the desert is also a place of contrast and contradictions. It is an encounter between the static, the permanence of a suspended instant, and the perpetual movement of a changing landscape and dunes transformed by the winds. Faced with the threat of change, erasure, and disappearance, the urgency to capture traces inscribed in the desert finds its solution in the photographic medium, this art that unveils, whose essence is that of the “decisive instant”, the impression, and the image.

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