Tracks

Sean Anderson, Aperture 227, June 2017

The Past is a Foreign Country

Brendan Wattenberg, September 2015

François-Xavier Gbré, photographe des traces de l’histoire

Sabine Cessou, RFI, November 2015

Armory show focus: African perspectives – interview for Aperture

Peter Barberie, March 2016

The Monumental Landscape: François-Xavier Gbré in conversation

Brendan Wattenberg and Emmanuel Iduma, Another Africa, August 2015

Photographier l’entre-deux, entretien

Érika Nimis, Africulture, Novembre 2013

Vous m’en direz des nouvelles, Jean-François Cadet, RFI, Novembre 2017

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The Past is a Foreign Country
Published by Haverford College, 2015

95 pages, soft cover, 165 x 240 mm
Texts by Brendan Wattenberg, Emmanuel Iduma, Susanna D. Wing

The Past is a Foreign Country marks Gbré’s first solo show in North America. Commissioned as a site-specific installation for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, the exhibition includes selections of photographs from series Gbré created between 2009 and 2015 in West Africa and France, whose disparate subjects are united by a methodical, often distanced perspective on architecture and landscape as forms of documentary evidence.

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Sogno d’Oltremare
MAN – Museo d’Arte provincia di Nuoro, 2018

48 pages, soft cover,165 x 240 mm
Texts by Luigi Fassi, Giuseppe Di Salvatore

The solo exhibitions by Dor Guez and François-Xavier Gbré illustrate some of the lines the MAN will be following in the near future, such as commissions for new works from artists and the intensive exploration of regional territory. From this standpoint, Sardinia represents an immense archive of Mediterranean research, making it a region able to interpret changes set to transform the face of the European continent in years to come. For artists who conceive their activity as a form of complex thought, the Mediterranean islands are particularly rich in inspiration, with their “layers of slow history” – to cite the historian Fernand Braudel – marking the present with the enigma of their age-old past.

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