Régis Durand

Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, France)

Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Valérie Belin

Huis Marseille (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Valérie Belins photographs avoid simple representation or description, even though she often chooses to photograph simple objects, such as glasses, silverware, Venetian mirrors, cars, or animal carcasses. Instead she is attempting to unveil the very essence of her subjects and to delve into the deepest secrets of things, of matter and of light, almost independent of the objects themselves. This comprehensive retrospective of Belins work also includes all her other suites her questioning of corporeality in her explicit studies of bodybuilders; the series of Moroccan brides which broach complex issues of identity and representation; and her investigations of hybrid entities, such as transsexuals, Michael Jackson look-alikes and the mannequins in shop windows.

Valérie Belin: Complete Work

Arièle Bonzon

archéologie photographique imaginaire

Jorge Molder

Fernando Lemos

Laura Mulvey

Cindy Sherman

Jean-Pierre Criqui

Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)

Kunsthaus (Bregenz, Autriche)

Jeu de paume (Paris).

Jeu de Paume (Paris)

Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark)

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Jeu de Paumme, Paris, 16 May - 3 September 2006, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 25 November 2006 - 14 January 2007, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 9 February - 13 May 2007, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 15 June - 10 September 2007.

Maurice Couturier

In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present Donald Barthelme’s work in its most radical and innovative aspects. Their essay combines textual analysis, critical theory and cultural awareness and aims at investigating the impact of Barthelme’s fictions on the reader and at defining the type of reading experience and pleasure such fictions can produce. Included in the aspects of Donald Barthelme’s work discussed here are his use of language, his sense of comedy, his parody, his vision of the modern self as fragmented and displaced, and his relation to psychoanalysis and other forms of art.

Donald Barthelme

Régis Durand

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