Sylvie Blocher
French video artist
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Sylvie Blocher (born 1953) is a French artist.[1][2]
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) Morschwiller-le-Bas, Alsace[1] |
| Known for | Video art |
| Website | sylvieblocher |
Blocher is known for her video works that engage local communities.[3] Her long-running project Living Pictures is a series of video portraits that, according to Blocher, attempts to "render speech in images".[4][5]
Solo exhibitions
- 1995 Feminin/ Masculin Centre Pompidou, Paris[6]
- 1998 Living Pictures York University Art Gallery, Toronto[7]
- 2007 Living Pictures/Men in Gold San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[8][9]
- 2010 Sylvie Blocher: What is Missing?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney[10][11]
- 2015 S'inventer Autrement Mudam Luxembourg and Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Seite[12][13]
- 2016 Living Pictures Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Deins, France[14]
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[1] the Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes,[15] MUDAM Luxembourg,[16] the Centre Pompidou[17] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[2]