From June 21st
to November 5th, 2000
With Raymond Depardon
This exhibition featuring images and films brings together nineteenth-century photographs and a set of works commissioned from ten artists including Titouan Lamazou and Raymond Depardon. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier gave six artists the exceptional opportunity of venturing into the desert – in Egypt, Mali, Australia and the United States – and four others, that of travelling through images of the desert.
“A friend [Vincent Beaurin] suggested the right solution before I left for Timbuktu: ‘If the idea of working on top of Depardon’s photos frightens you that much, then draw on the back of them…’ I left with my heart much lighter. I’d envisaged, as possible destinations, Timimoun, in Algeria’s south, part of the desert in Chad, Mauritania, or even Arabia. [...] When Raymond and I had met several weeks earlier, we’d settled on the idea that I’d carry in my luggage the prints of the purest desert shots that he’d taken. I’d reserve for them the fate of my choice.”
Titouan Lamazou, Carnets de voyage du désert, April 2000
