From 19 Jan To 10 Apr 2022
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI / ANDRÉ BRETON. Surrealist friendships
Paris, France
Claude Cahun
Photo: Claude Cahun
Sixth screening of the documentary film programme dedicated to Surrealist artists and writers
Claude Cahun is an emblematic and atypical figure of the surrealist movement. A poet, she also practised photography, staging herself with the help of her companion Suzanne Malherbe, or creating strange compositions that bring together objects and plants. A lesbian, she plays with her androgynous physique; she is also politically committed. A "wandering writer", a versatile and revolutionary artist, who is free of all conformism - through a perpetual concern for differentiation and a "mania for the exceptional" - she offers an innovative and disconcerting photographic work. "All creation is self-creation", wrote Claude Cahun, who rebelled against all identification and for whom "labels are contemptible". "To travel only on the bow of oneself" is her desire.
On the occasion of the exhibition "Alberto Giacometti / André Breton, Surrealist friendships", the Institut Giacometti proposes, in partnership with the Association Atelier André Breton and the Collection Phares, a programme of documentary films devoted to surrealist artists and writers: Jacqueline Lamba, Max Ernst, Claude Cahun, Victor Brauner, Dora Maar, Yves Tanguy and André Breton.
Tuesday 22 March at 6:30 pm
Giacometti Lab, 9 rue Victor Schœlcher 75014 Paris
Free upon reservation.
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