Médiathèque
Shelley Rice: Shifting Spaces, Impossible Borders. Ana Mendieta and Liliana Porter.
How Mendieta and Porter explored the interstices between fixed spaces, homelands and national identities, to invent their own country – By Shelley Rice.
Meeting Point #4 Dork Zabunyan & Pierre Alain Trévelo
It is vital to look back on Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, among other reasons, to highlight little-known facets of a shape-shifting oeuvre.
Meeting Point #3: Dork Zabunyan & Marie Voignier
Jean-François Chevrier : “Raoul Hausmann, Returns and Relevance”
“Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway” by Susan Meiselas
The caption removes any shred of doubt; on the left of the image, the passengers have been taken off the bus and lined up in front of the group of soldiers on the right: the first of them, hands on head, is being patted down by a soldier, who is then going to search the others.
Meeting Point #2 : Dork Zabunyan & Peter Szendy
Peter Szendy is “updating” current thinking about images just as, according to Flaubert, Baudelaire, “[modernised] Romanticism” in his time.
“Susan Meiselas, transmitting images” by Clara Bouveresse
Ali Kazma and Jean-Michel Frodon
In connection with his first major solo exhibition in Paris, "Ali Kazma. Subterranean", the artist met the film critic Jean-Michel Frodon for a discussion at Jeu de Paume.
Jordana Mendelson : Eli Lotar's Dissident Lens in Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Land without Bread
Luis Buñuel's Land without Bread (Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan), (1933) is a searing documentary about the geography, inhabitants, and lifestyle of the western region of Extremadura, Spain, called Las Hurdes.