Yours is the vision and yours is the eternal connection between things

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.

About the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac photographic collection

‍The photographic collection of the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac consistsof over 710,000 pieces. Since the museum opened in 2006, it has undertaken
a major policy of acquisition: almost 70,000 historical and contemporary photographs have thus come into the collections.

The contemporary collection was launched in 2006, and today comprises one thousand pieces including the photographs of New Zealanders Fiona Pardington and Anne Noble, Samuel Fosso’s series, My Grandfather’s Dream and African Spirits,a collection of photographs by James Barnor, several works by Marco Lopez and Lourdes Grobet, Carlos Garaicoa’s portfolio, Frases, Sammy Baloji’s piece, Essay onUrban Planning, and several prints from the series, Avenue Patrice Lumumba byGuy Tilim. In 2018, the museum acquired Aliento, a work by the Columbian artistOscar Muñoz.

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