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Raymond Depardon Exhibition, Copenhagen

Raymond Depardon is showing work from Hear Them Speak at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.

The exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject unites filmmaker and photographer, Raymond Depardon, and urban planner and philosopher, Paul Virilio, who propose a reflection on the notions of “taking root” in a given place, and of being “uprooted.” It also attempts to address the questions of identity that are linked to these notions. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier and Steidl are publishing Hear Them Speak, a collection of colour Polaroids by Raymond Depardon. In the course of some ten journeys, from Central America to South America, from Europe to Africa, Raymond Depardon went out to meet small ethnic groups who are hanging on determinedly to their land and their language: the Kawésqar, Chipaya, Quechua, Mapuche, Afar, Occitans, Bretons, Guarani and Yanomami. Their statements were recorded in their mother tongue and are accompanied by Polaroid photographs. In the resulting portraits, these people express the strong bond that ties them to their land and culture, offering a moving demonstration of the way land, speech and memory are intimately interconnected.

Native Land
curated by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
5 December, 2009 - 21 February, 2010

The exhibition will tour to the AlhondigaBilbao, Bilbao and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe in 2010.