Living Pictures / I and Us (still) 2003 video
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Sylvie Blocher 2003 Australia
Installation 55 minutes French and English text Courtesy the artist © the artist for Campement Urbain
Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing?
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
Wednesday 17 February 2010 to Monday 26 April 2010
Exhibition
previously on
at
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
in
The Rocks precinct,
New South Wales,
Australia
The exhibition Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? represents a survey of the artist’s video installations from 2003 to the present, and takes its title from a new work with residents of Penrith in Sydney’s west. Engaging and frequently provocative, exhibited works explore a range of themes from cultural identity and migration to issues of authority, masculinity and self-expression.
French video artist Sylvie Blocher creates portrait studies of individuals or groups within society. Through these works, or ‘Living Pictures’, she explores communal issues as well as personal themes, asking questions to which her subjects respond with often surprising candor. Presented across single or multiple screens, these artworks envelop you as they address the complexities of modern urban life.
Sylvie Blocher: What Is Missing? is presented concurrently at Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, featuring work by Campement Urbain, a visionary Paris-based collective headed by Blocher and architect/urban planner François Daune, for the city of Penrith, and the Penrith Panthers.
Sylvie Blocher: What is Missing? is supported by Culturesfrance. Additional support is provided by The French Embassy in Australia.
Location
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art140 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour foreshore at West Circular Quay
The Rocks Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
