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Sophie Calle “For the Last and First Time”; Simon Starling “Metamorphology”; Allan Sekula & Noël Burch “The Forgotten Space” at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Sophie Calle, The Last Image. Blind with embroidery, 2010 (detail)
Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006
Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space, 2010

Sophie Calle, The Last Image. Blind with embroidery, 2010 (detail) One color photograph under Plexiglas cover, one color photograph with metal frame, one text with metal frame © Adagp, Paris 2014. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Paula Cooper Gallery

Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006. 38 color transparencies, Götschmann medium format slide projector, and flight case 4 minutes Projected dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

Container Ship Image from the film Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space, 2010 112 minutes Photo: Courtesy of Icarus Films

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SOPHIE CALLE
For the Last and First Time
5 February – 10 May 2015

“I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.”

French artist Sophie Calle , one of the most important artists of her generation, makes her debut at the MAC with For the Last and First Time. The exhibition, which reveals great artistic sensibility, consists of two recent projects: The Last Image (2010), a series of photographs accompanied by texts, and Voir la mer (2011), a series of digital films.

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