Diane Ducruet - Entre-temps et Vivants

“Une petite valise d’objets, de lieux et de personnages servent de pièces à conviction. Tels sont les “Things & Words”, somptueux comme ce portrait de fille aux joues roses, désertés comme cette banquette d’un train, désespérants comme le décor de la Stasi, terrifiants comme les barraques des camps, les murs lamentables de la séparation, reposants comme les fleurs d’un cimetière ombrag&eacut

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Torsten Warmuth - It's a Man's World
Torsten Warmuth sets out in search of the unmistakable face of the world's metropolises. Previously, this was in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Paris or New York, and now in Africa's biggest city: Cairo. It is urban life beyond the tourist destinations that shapes the face of a city. In Cairo, a metropolis of twenty million, Torsten Warmuth found this in the bazaars of Khan-el-Khalilil, the traffic-filled street of Talaat Harb in the traditional commerci

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An evening with Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas' challenging and complex work, which plays with time and narrative structure, has made him a leading figure in contemporary video art. Join us at the School at ICP for a special talk with this renowned artist. This evening is held in conjunction with the ICP exhibition Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art.

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Vincent Labaume, ANTECLIPS et autres suppots

Raoul Hausmann raconte qu’il a eu la révélation du photomontage alors qu’il était en promenade avec Hannah Höch en Baltique pendant la première guerre mondiale et qu’il découvrit dans chaque famille d’un petit village une lithographie accrochée au mur représentant un grenadier sur fond de caserne, sur la tête duquel on avait collé un portrait photographique du soldat de la famille.
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The collections of Barbara Bloom

Photographer, designer, and installation artist Barbara Bloom (b. 1951) has built her career out of questioning appearances, exploring the desire for possessions, and commenting on the act of collecting. This retrospective will explore all aspects of her oeuvre, and includes works from past multi-media installations and newly made pieces, as well as objects from her vast personal archives of ephemera and advertisements. In some cases, Bloom revisits previous installations and adds new element

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Archive Fever - Use of the document in contemporary art

Organized by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing me

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