Derniers jours – Louise Lawler

Grand Arles Express

July 1st – October 15th, 2023

Exhibition view of « Louise Lawler » (dans le cadre du Grand Arles Express) © Louise Lawler and Sprüth Magers. Photo : Collection Lambert

(Sunset) Wall, 2001/2003
Cibachrome
Donation Yvon Lambert en 2012
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques en dépôt à la Collection Lambert
© Louise Lawler, Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers/Cnap.

Exhibition view of « Louise Lawler » (dans le cadre du Grand Arles Express) © Louise Lawler and Sprüth Magers. Photo : Collection Lambert

Sappho and Patriarch, 1984
Cibachrome et texte Letraset sur papier : « Is it the work, the location or the stereotype that is the institution? »
Donation Yvon Lambert en 2012. Collection Centre national des arts plastiques en dépôt à la Collection Lambert
© Louise Lawler, Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers/Cnap. Photo: Fabrice Lindor

Exhibition view of « Louise Lawler » (dans le cadre du Grand Arles Express) © Louise Lawler and Sprüth Magers. Photo : Collection Lambert

There Is No Writing on the Wall, 1988
Six verres dépolis sérigraphiés et étagère en verre
13,6 x 7,5 cm chacun
FNAC 2015-0613 (1 à 6)
© Louise Lawler, courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers/Cnap. Photo : David Giancatarina

Internationally renowned for her photographs of artworks taken in their context of exhibition, the American artist Louise Lawler has taken a central place in the history of Yvon Lambert’s gallery and then within the Avignon institution that houses the collection. For the first time in its history, the Collection Lambert is exhibiting all 21 photographs and 6 installations of her work that are held in its permanent collection in the papal city.

This unique ensemble opens with some of the first photographs from the 1980s, continues with a series of engraved glasses presented on shelves and concludes with a series of photographs taken at the Collection Lambert and in the collector’s home, in the days following the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks, when Louise Lawler was unable to leave the French territory.

In a gesture in which political mingles with sensorial – undoubtedly – the artist shows how different contexts of presentation or means of installation quietly influence our understanding of the artworks we encounter.

Curator: Stéphane Ibars

In partnership with Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles