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Paris Photo Week-end CANCELED

Centre culturel canadien
November 14th, 2020 12:00 - 19:00

Edward Burtynsky, Bao Steel #8, Shanghai, China, 2005 © courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Flowers Gallery, London
Edward Burtynsky, Bao Steel #8, Shanghai, China, 2005 © courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Flowers Gallery, London

Edward Burtynsky, Dandora Landfill #3, Plastics Recycling, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016 © courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Flowers Gallery, London
Edward Burtynsky, Dandora Landfill #3, Plastics Recycling, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016 © courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Flowers Gallery, London

Special Opening for Paris Photo Week-end : Saturday, November 14th from 12pm to 7pm.

Programme: a series of guided tours in the presence of the curator, by reservation. Come to visit our new exhibition “Edward Burtynsky, Mounds and Voids: From Human to Global Scale”.

A renowned Canadian photographer, travelling around the planet for decades and exploring the residual landscapes left behind by our modern existence, Edward Burtynsky has produced images of an uncanny beauty, evoking abundance and absence, the local and global issues around water and oil, the exploitation of resources and the resulting impact on labour forces and populations. (…)

This Canadian Cultural Centre exhibition proposes a new and subjective crossing of the corpuses of this colossal body of work. Mounds and Voids focuses on the industrial and human means convened in the profitable exploitation of land, on the overall equilibrium of the mounds and voids created by our local imbalances, on the subterranean sections and reliefs that have nothing natural about them. Far away from the large urban centres and the everyday lives of the privileged, what imprints do the operations of digging and piling leave on our planet? What do we see and what do we know of those who dig, extract, pile up and work with bare hands where industrial machinery cannot? (…)

Curator: Catherine Bédard

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Centre culturel canadien
130 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris

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