SYLVIE BLOCHER: WHAT IS MISSING?
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Sylvie Blocher, Living Pictures / What belongs to them (still, detail) 2003 single-channel video installation 36 minutes English version Commissioned by Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Image courtesy the artist and Art & Public, Geneva © the artist
SYLVIE BLOCHER: WHAT IS MISSING?
LEVEL 4 / 17 FEBRUARY – 26 APRIL 2010
MCA l Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Prominent video artist Sylvie Blocher (born 1953, France) creates portraits of individuals or groups within society. Through these works, which she titles ‘Living Pictures’, Blocher explores communal issues as well as personal themes, asking questions to which her subjects respond with often surprising candor. The questions are taken away in the final edit and the portraits become an extended series of statements. Presented across single or multiple screens, Blocher’s works envelop viewers spatially as they address the complexities of modern urban life.
The MCA 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. Exhibition highlights include Men in Gold, focusing on the privileged lives of Silicon Valley’s millionaires, and Je et Nous (I and Us), made in collaboration with the large multi-ethnic community of Sevran, France.
Curator: Rachel Kent
With the support of Culturesfrance and the French Embassy in Australia
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