14 Mar 2012

Sophie Calle at Museum of Modern Art of Medellín

After Beatriz González exhibition, we are opening 2012 with the work Wall Stories by the renowned French artist Sophie Calle, of whom Newsweek said in 2011 '... she could be, along with nine other selected artists, the next Rembrandt, Picasso or Leonardo'.

Thanks to the joint efforts of the Medellin Museum of Modern Art, the Art Museum of Banco de la Republica, and the collaboration of the French Embassy and Alliance Francaise, we will open this itinerant exhibition from March 21 to June 3 in Medellin, and then in Bogota from June 16 to September 20.

This exhibition includes the installations Les Aveugles (The Blind), Voir la Mer (See the Sea), Douleur Exquise (Exquisite Pain) and No Sex Last Night, which reflect a recurrent issue in the work of Sophie Calle: intimacy, particularly, hers. This artist uses a wide variety of recording media such as books, photographs, videos, films or performances. In her conceptual and poetic work she consciously conceals the borders between art and life, fiction and reality, what is public and what is private.

This will be then, a unique opportunity to enjoy and learn about the work of one of the most important artists in the current contemporary art scene, and to ensure better use and understanding of her work, we will have a supplementary academic and cultural programming including: workshops for youth and children, a particular experience with the workshop of the Museum Representations (for the visually impaired), conversations about art, philosophy and aesthetics regarding the problem of the body or the body as a problem, the Video MED2012, the advisory center about the exhibition, and a course of French literature, among others.