Exhibition : imagine formless thing through seeing concrete thing

November 20, 2015

I visited the exhibition of Sophie Calle, a French contemporary artist, at the city museum.
The exhibition began with following words.
“J’ai rencontré des gens qui sont nés aveugles. Qui n’ont jamais vu. Je leur ai demandé quelle rest pour eux l’image de la beauté.”
I couldn’t understand at all, but there was a Japanese translation of it. It said: “ I met people who were born blind. They’ve never seen. I asked them what their image of beauty is .”

The artist revealed the blind person’s image of beauty with lyrical photographs and their own word.
Dozens of photographs and words were on the wall in a large white room quietly.
Seeing the photographs made me imagine what they think of beauty.
They mentioned swimming fish, sculptures, the fur of wildcat, the view of a cliff, and others. Each person had their own each image.
I felt very peculiar imagining beauty without colors or brightness through seeing photographs.
There were very few people in the room. I looked at each photograph for a while.

As an aside

Before I entered the museum, I noticed I had the pamphlet of Sophie Calle’s exhibition in my bag. I didn’t understand why I had it because I had not gone to the museum yet. But the pamphlet showed it was Sophie Calle’s exhibition in 2013. In that morning, by pure accident, I had grabbed the bag that contained the  pamphlet printed 2 years ago.

*thanks クリスタル*

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