Helga de Alvear Collection: The Tears of Things

Exposición / París Photo / Grand Palais - Avenue Winston Churchill / Paris, Ile-de-France, Francia
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Cuándo:
09 nov de 2017 - 12 nov de 2017

Inauguración:
09 nov de 2017

Comisariada por:
Marta Gili

Organizada por:
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, París Photo

ENLACES OFICIALES
Web 

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Etiquetas
Fotografía  Fotografía en Ile-de-France 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Private collection Looking at works of art in a collection implies surrounding oneself with « Things » that form part of the universe of another person. Walter Benjamin said that one of the most intimate relationships that can be established with objects is that of possession. That is why working with the photographs and videos of the Helga de Alvear Collection is an act of both voyeurism and complicity. This selection of photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection is, evidently, a proposal among the many others that could exist. If art is, above all, a way of creating gazes, The Tears of Things proposes seeing the life of the things represented and, perhaps, comparing it with our own. Marta Gili Exhibition presented in the Salon d’Honneur. With the support of J.P. Morgan, official partner of Paris Photo

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