Sylvie Blocher is officially based in Saint-Denis, France – however, she is almost constantly on the move. The title of her presentation refers to one of her latest large exhibitions organized at MUDAM Luxembourg in 2015. The artist originating from France, a major representative of participatory art, formulated her manifesto in 1991 in which she voiced her reservations about modernity: the work ensemble has been in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris for almost twenty years. Blocher’s engagement in social and political issues became known through her video installations form the mid-90s onwards.
Since her video series Living Pictures (1991), her work centers on “human, fragile and unpredictable material, while gifted with an extreme presence.” Participants she met all around the world are invited to “share the artist’s authority.” Her goal is to invite bodies and voices which are neither seen, nor heard. By confronting the Others’ imagination, Sylvie Blocher engages herself towards a “poetic of relation” and invents a different distribution of roles and words. She questions identities, genres, skin colors, determinisms and the codes of representation in a globalized world.
Her works are part of collections such as SFMOMA, MUDAM or Centre Pompidou, and she regularly exhibits on an international scale.
Venue of Sylvie Blocher’s lecture:
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Auditorium, 1st floor – Friday November 17, 2017, 6 p.m.
The lecture will be in French with simultaneous translation to Hungarian.
The event is coordinated in partnership with the French Institute, Budapest. The event is organized in the framework of the CAPP Collaborative Arts Partnership Program.
