Vendredi 06 Février 2015 11:00:06 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Internationally renowned artist Sophie Calle makes a splendid debut at the MAC with For the Last and First Time. This exhibition, which reveals great artistic sensibility, consists of two projects : The Last Image (2010), a series of photographs accompanied by texts, and Voir la mer (2011), a series of digital films.

These two bodies of work are in some way a continuation of a piece produced by Calle in 1986, titled The Blind. In that case, the artist asked blind people to describe beauty. One of them answered : "The most beautiful thing I've ever seen is the sea, an endless sea." It was in Istanbul, years later, that Calle chose to pursue her poetic investigation of blindness, beauty and the sea. The installation, accompanied by the soothing sound of waves, first presents The Last Image, a series of photographs, tinged with melancholy, for which Calle asked people who had lost their sight suddenly to recall the last thing they saw. For Voir la mer, she managed to find residents of Istanbul a city surrounded by water who had never seen the sea. She filmed each of these captivating, memorable maritime encounters.

The presentation at the MAC is emblematic of the approach followed by an artist who, in works with complex narrative threads, gives universal resonance to subjects rooted in real-life experience.