Agnès Varda: Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too)

September 11 - November 8, 2015

Soft Opening: Fri, Sept 11, 6pm
Reception: Fri, Oct 9, 5-9pm, Lecture 7-8pm

Agnès Varda puts films in her photos, and photos, potatoes, and shells in her films and video-installations. The exhibition proposes a dialogue between still photography and moving pictures. Four recent video-installations will be presented alongside a selection of her photographic work exploring or questioning the polarity between still and moving, broken and continuous, fleeting and fixed or captured. Curated by Dominique Bluher, Lecturer and Director of MA Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the exhibition will showcase the films and photographic installations of French Feminist and avant-garde filmmaker Agnès Varda. Part of CinéVardaExpo, a larger program of events, workshops and screenings. CinéVardaExpo is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and Film Studies Center.

CinéVardaExpo is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and Film Studies Center. Additional support provided by the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago Arts Council, Chuck Roven Fund, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, DOVA-Open Practice Committee, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Center for International Studies Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund, Institut français in Paris, Norman Wait Harris Fund, Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s Counter Cinema/Media Project.

For full programming details, please visit: CinéVardaExpo in Chicago

Gallery Entrance. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Entrance Gallery View. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Patatutopia, 2003, three-screen video installation with sound, 6:26 min., potatoes. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Heart Potatoes Series, 2002, digital print. Patatutopia, 2003, three-screen video installation with sound, 6:26 min., potatoes. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Heart Potatoes Series, 2002, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Entrance Gallery View. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

The Potato Chimney, 2003, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Self-Portrait, 1949 photograph, silver print on Baryte paper. Agnés Varda In Venice in front of a Bellini Painting, 1962, photograph, silver print on Baryte paper. Fractured Self-Portrait, 2009, photograph, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Introductory Text. Self-Portrait, 1949, photograph, silver print on Baryte paper. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Self-Portrait, 1949, photograph, silver print on Baryte paper. Agnès Varda In Venice in front of a Bellini Painting, 1962, photograph, silver print on Baryte paper. Fractured Self-Portrait, 2009, photograph, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Zgougou’s tomb, 2006, two-channel video installation with sound, 3:40 min, sand, plants; Winds and Brass (with strings) by Steve Reich. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Walking Pictures, 1956-58, silver photographs, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Corbusier's Terrace, 1956, silver photograph, digital print. The People on the Terrace, 2007, single-channel video, 2:33 min. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Corbusier’s Terrace, 1956, silver photograph, digital print. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.

Marie in the Wind, 2014, single-channel video, 3:50 min.; silver photograph, digital print. The People on the Terrace, 2007, single-channel video, 2:33 min. Photo Courtesy of Nabiha Khan.