Project

Vivian Maier e(s)t son double
Vivian Maier, New-York Chicago

Location

Musée de Pont-Aven, 29930 Pont Aven, France
Musée des Beaux Arts à Quimper, 29000 Quimper, France

Category

Temporary exhibition

Opening

February 2022

Client

Musée de Pont-Aven
Musée des Beaux Arts de Quimper

Surface m²

600 m²

300 m²

Scenography cost € HT

73.000 €

Scope of work

Lighting design
Audiovisuals engineering

Partners

Scénography : Agence Explosition
Graphism : Paula Mutel

Vivian Maier (1926-2009) worked in the early 1950s and for over forty years after that as a nanny in New York and Chicago.
Her entire life was spent in anonymity until 2007 when her photographic corpus came to light. It was a huge and
impressive body of work, consisting of more than 120,000 negatives, super 8 and 16mm films, various audio recordings, a few photographs, and hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film. Her all-consuming hobby ended up making her one of the most acclaimed proponents of street photography.

Distinguished last year during a vast retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg, Vivian Maier is now the subject of a double exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper and Pont-Aven. A new collaboration for these two Breton institutions that join together to host a little over 200 photographs of the American. Shots where shadows and mirrors play a key role, illustrating the quest for absolute identity of an artist in search of herself