Esther Shalev-Gerz
dal 20/9/2012 al 5/1/2013
Segnalato da
20/9/2012
Esther Shalev-Gerz
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts MCBA, Lausanne
Between Telling and Listening. The retrospective offers a vast panorama of the artist's work through her slide projections, photographs, video installations and projects in public space. Questions of places and landscapes, questions of memorial traces contained in objects or stories...
This fall the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne
presents the first large-scale solo exhibition to be devoted to the
work of Esther Shalev-Gerz in Switzerland.
The Lausanne retrospective offers a vast panorama of the artist’s
work through her slide projections, photographs, video installations
and projects in public space.
In the exhibition Esther Shalev-Gerz has devised for the Musée
cantonal des Beaux-Arts, the artist has designed an itinerary reflecting
the different periods of her output. Major works are arranged in a nonchronological order, in keeping with the rooms and the questions they
explore. Questions of places and landscapes, questions of memorial
traces contained in objects or stories, questions of portraits structured
by words and silence.
Born in Lithuania, Esther Shalev-Gerz grew up in Israel, and now
lives in Paris. For more than twenty years she has been developing
work centered on questions associated with the construction of
memory, whether personal or collective. Her reinterpretation of history
is firmly anchored in the present of her protagonists : The majority of
her works are created in dialogue with people – be they the inhabitants
of a specific place, or the witnesses of a particular event. Thus
the past is always interpreted through the present of those who
remember it, or work with its relics. Through different stories, in the
gap between listening and telling, and by means of her installations,
Esther Shalev-Gerz creates new spaces to tackle the questions of
recollection, memory, bearing witness, and our relationship to history.
www.shalev-gerz.net
Image: Inseparables, 2000-2010. Double-faced electric clock, 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist
Press - Communication:
Loïse Cuendet Tel +41 21 3163448 Fax +41 21 3163446 e-mail loise.cuendet@vd.ch
Opening reception: Friday 21 September 2012 , 6.30 pm
Opening to coincide with the Museum Night: 22 September 2012, 2 pm - 2 am ( www.lanuitdesmusees.ch )
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts MCBA
Place Riponne 6 1014 Lausanne
Hours: Tuesday to Wednesday: 11 am - 6 pm; Thursday: 11 am - 8 pm; Friday to Sunday : 11 am - 5 pm. 26 December: 11 am - 5 pm. Closed on Mondays, 25 December, 1 and 2 January.