Sophie Ristelhueber - The War Within
Sophie Ristelhueber - The War Within
| Author | Catherine Grenier |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Les Presses Du Reel |
| ISBN | 9782378966447 |
| Idea Code | 260100 |
Why do we become artists? And how? To what extent are we artists? Prompted by Catherine Grenier's direct questions, Sophie Ristelhueber retraces the atypical journey of an artist who was never destined for this late, yet fulfilled destiny. Clear-eyed and sincere, her testimony offers a compelling introduction to contemporary art, its aims and its stakes. She evokes the drive of an "inner necessity" that leads her into war-torn landscapes, keeping pace with conflicts and wounds, in search of traces and scars. Implying a complete personal engagement and a real experience of the land, Ristelhueber's work borrows from journalism its tools (photography) and one of its major themes (war), but bends them to the processes of art: her oeuvre is not built around a documentary project to represent, but, starting from an aesthetic project, to interrogate the notion of trace, on the body and on the place.
| 144 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English |
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