SUSAN MEISELAS

& MARTA GENTILUCCI

CARTOGRAPHIES DU CORPS

• ÉGLISE SAINT-BLAISE

4 JULY - 25 SEPTEMBER 2022

10.00 AM - 07.30 PM

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Cartographies du corps traces a map of the skin and the gestures of aging women that speak about engaged lives, still filled with energy, full of beauty – a beauty that comes from the layering of their experience. Susan Meiselas & Marta Gentilucci partnered to capture in images and sound the vital force that inhabits these bodies, the intensity of their past lives and the enduring hope of the life that remains to be lived, against the representation of old age as the absence of opportunity, or even illness, loneliness, and deprivation. Within the chapel of Saint-Blaise, the installation creates a sense of closeness and intimacy, to present a choral image which draws on and shares the collaboration with each woman. It is an immersive landscape that transforms in time the spatial relationships, shaping a site-specific approach into a collective experience.

• susanmeiselas.com
• martagentilucci.com

EXHIBITION COPRODUCED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME – VILLA MEDICI AND THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES.

WITH THE COLLABORATION OF DEVIALET (ACOUSTIC CONSULTANCY AND MATERIAL SUPPORT).

WITH SUPPORT FROM KERING

WOMEN IN MOTION.

SUSAN MEISELAS

Born 1948 in New York, United States.
Lives and works in New York, United States.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Pandora’s Box, Encounters with the Dani, A Room of Their Own, and has coedited four collections: El Salvador: Work of 30 Photographers, Chile from Within, Tar Beach and Eyes Open. Her photographs are included in American and international collections. In 1992, Meiselas was made a MacArthur Fellow. She is the President of the Magnum Foundation which supports and mentors the next generation of in-depth documentary photographers, to increase the impact of both historical and contemporary photography.

MARTA GENTILUCCI

Born 1973 in Gualdo Tadino, Italy.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

Marta Gentilucci is a composer of instrumental, vocal, and electronic music. She pursued a master’s in Vocal Art as a soprano in Italy and a master’s in Composition and computer music in Germany. She holds a PhD in Composition from Harvard University. Her music has been internationally performed by renowned ensembles. She was in residence at IRCAM, at the Experimentalstudio Freiburg, and at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Among her most recent works, two joint commissions by IRCAM and Neue Vocalsolisten for the MANIFESTE Festival 2020 and the ECLAT Festival 2021, and a commission by the Venice Biennale 2021. In 2021–2022, she is in residence at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici.