TALK | Al río/To the River | Zoe Leonard et Anne Bertrand Événement, Conférence

19h30 Time scale
1h10

Hours

The : Thursday 20 October 2022 from 19h30 to 20h40

The artist Zoe Leonard and the critic and art historian Anne Bertrand discuss the series Al río / To the River, exhibited at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris until 29 January 2022.

Zoe Leonard: (1961, Liberty, NY) works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation, balancing a rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision. Leonard’s work encourages the viewer to reconsider the act of looking itself as a complex, ongoing process. Using repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard’s practice probes the politics of representation and display and invites us to contemplate the role that the medium plays in constructing history. Leonard has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s. A retrospective exhibition was presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2018. Leonard has participated in numerous international exhibitions, notably Documenta IX in 1992 and Documenta XII in 2007. In 1992, Leonard wrote a short text piece entitled I Want a President, which has been distributed in many countries. Taken up by others, it has been translated into multiple languages, circulated globally through social media, and presented in public readings and performances. Leonard is a founding member of the artist collective fierce pussy. Formed in 1991 the collective remains active today with three other core founding members: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, and Carrie Yamaoka. Zoe Leonard lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Marfa, Texas.

Anne Bertrand: born in 1966, is an art historian and critic, who writes about photography for the press (Art Press, Trafic) as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogues. In 2009 she wrote Le Présent de Robert Frank (D'une manière éditions, La Rochelle), in 2011 she edited the publication of Tacita Dean, Écrits choisis 1992-2011 (École supérieure des arts décoratifs, Strasbourg), and in 2019 the French edition of Lewis Baltz, Textes (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg).
In 2018 she defended a thesis on the texts and statements of Walker Evans, at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, under the direction of François Brunet (co-direction of Michel Poivert) and edited the publication of Walker Evans, Le Secret de la photographie (Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2017)/The Interview (The Eakins Press, New York, 2019). In 2022 she contributed to Vincent Chevillon's book, Lisières (Pétrole éditions, Strasbourg). She has been teaching since 2007 at HEAR, Strasbourg.