Peloche sizes in sight! Until January 19, the Jeu de Paume, recently reopened after the Olympic Games and for its 20th anniversary, is hosting two fabulous exhibitions. On the one hand, Family Tiesa retrospective maousse dedicated to the iconic American photographer Tina Barney, who spans more than 40 years of creation. On the other, a brilliant tracking shot on the career of Chantal Akerman, a committed figure in Belgian cinema, with new installations, films and archives. Two artistic slaps not to be missed under any circumstances.
To start its new season, the Jeu de Paume is celebrating Tina Barney, the undisputed star of photography in the United States who, strangely, had never had the right to a big retrospective in Europe. The fault is a style perhaps too flashy for Parisians, more accustomed to the austerity of black and white dear to Magnum. Where Europeans prefer purity, the New Yorker focuses on soap opera-style bling, capturing the American bourgeoisie as in an episode of Fires of love. In 55 photos, Tina Barney depicts the intimacy of the WASPs that she knows so well, having herself grown up in this privileged environment.
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Chantal Akerman has had one of the most curious and committed trajectories in Belgian cinema (and well beyond). To celebrate the filmmaker who died in 2015, the Palm Gamein collaboration with three institutions in the Plat Pays, offers a brilliant traveling shot – one of its specialties – over his 60-year career with installations, films but also new archives. A work which was an uninterrupted series of formal experiments and questions about identity, feminism and family relationships. His most famous film, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels (1975), which tells the story of female alienation, was voted “greatest film of all time” by Sight & Sound, the equivalent of Cinema notebooks in England.
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Or ? Jeu de Paume, 1 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris
When ? Until January 19, 2025
