Starting on 31 March 2020, the exhibition À toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses will immerse the visitor in the sensitive worlds of 26 artists from 18 different countries. In the wake of its Residency Programme and surveys undertaken over the last ten or so years, the musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirachas chosen to connect the work of contemporary photographers from a variety ofbackgrounds: young and emerging talents like Gosette Lubondo, Lek Kiatsirikajornand José Luis Cuevas, and many leading proponents, including Guy Tillim, Dinh Q.Lê, José Alejandro Restrepo, Dayanita Singh, Sammy Baloji, Rosângela Rennó, MarioGarcía Torres, Yoshua Okón, Samuel Fosso and Brook Andrew.
Using photography, the moving image, video, and installation, they create narratives, examine our relationship with the images, undertake in-depth studies,question the historical legacies of the photographs, reappraise the notions of visualappropriation and re-appropriation.
Is the image a captured glance?
The first part of the exhibition looks at photography as a collection of visual fragments of reality in the work of Guy Tillim (South Africa) in Harare, Luanda andNairobi and with the work of Jo Ractliffe (South Africa), who focuses on the former militarised zones on South Africa’s borders with Botswana and Namibia. José LuisCuevas (Mexico) links the fragility of Man to the fragility of his environment inpost-Fukushima Japan. As for Daniela Edburg (Mexico), she places her creations within the Icelandic landscape, and transforms them into fragments of nature,highlighting the landscape as a human construction.