iFondation Henri Cartier-Bresson · Le Marais
Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua, History, Memory
Meiselas's 1978-79 Sandinista revolution photographs and how they took on a life of their own on objects and murals: 100+ works, documents and film clips, curated by Clément Chéroux.
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In June 1978 near Monimbó, Meiselas photographed young Sandinistas practising with contact bombs. By 30 July it was on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. By 1982 her Molotov Man was a red stencil on a wall in Estelí, calling up a militia against the contras.
That drift, between what a photograph recorded and what it came to stand for, is the show. Meiselas covered the uprising against Somoza, then kept going back for four decades, finding her pictures on T-shirts, stamps, matchboxes and murals. You see the insurrection first, then that long work of return: over a hundred works, documents and film clips in the Cube, some never shown before, plus pieces by four other artists, including Alfredo Jaar.
It is for anyone who takes pictures and wonders, as L'Art de la photo put it, what becomes of an image once published. Tickets are €10 (€6 reduced, free under 18) and cover Martine Franck in the Tube gallery too. Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm.
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Molotov Man on a wall in Estelí
Look for the 1982 photograph of a red stencil of her own Molotov Man painted over "No pasarán", used to mobilise a popular militia against the contras.
The New York Times Magazine cover, 30 July 1978
Her picture of young men practising with contact bombs in the forest around Monimbó, taken weeks earlier, printed across the front of a US magazine.
Fleeing the bombing, reframed
From Reframing History (2004): a billboard-sized print of her 1978 photograph of people fleeing the bombing of Estelí, set up on the roadside outside the city, with a man walking past.
The original slide
Burning tyres blocking a road in San Marcos, June 1978, shown as the original colour chrome in its slide mount, her name handwritten on the frame.
Arlen Siu at the funeral in Jinotepe
Demonstrators at a 1978 funeral for assassinated student leaders hold up a large portrait of Arlen Siu, an FSLN fighter killed three years earlier.
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Con niños
Under-18s get in free. The photographs are of a war, including armed teenagers and a funeral.
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- Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua, History, MemoryCourtesy of Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Kurt Schwitters. Le caos del mundo, 1918-1948 (Kurt Schwitters. Le chaos-monde, 1918-1948)Courtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Guillermo Kuitca, ChapelleCourtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Statue de la Liberté: reportaje fotográfico a finales del siglo XIX (Statue de la Liberté : reportage photographique à la fin du XIXe siècle)© Musée des Arts et Métiers-Cnam/photo Sylvain Pelly
- Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonVVVCFFrance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée national Picasso-ParisFrançois de Dijon, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée des Arts et MétiersMarianne Casamance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Musée Cognacq-JayCVB / Wikimedia Commons
- Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayettePhilouSunshine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0