Charlotte Dumas exhibits her pioneering work dedicated to the animal world. For over twenty years, her photographs and films have been the fruit of long immersions in animal communities around the world.

EXHIBITION
MAISON DES ARTS, CAJARC
MAISON DAURA, SAINT-CIRQ-LAPOPIE
JUNE 30 TO SEPTEMBER 1
TUESDAY TO SUNDAY
10AM TO 1PM AND 2PM TO 6PM
FREE ADMISSION / GENERAL PUBLIC
AND
MAISON DES ARTS, CAJARC
FROM SEPTEMBER 4 TO NOVEMBER 17
WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY
2 PM TO 6 PM

VERNISSAGE
SATURDAY JUNE 29 FROM 7PM

GUIDED TOURS
DAILY AT 4PM UNTIL 01/09
THEN EVERY SATURDAY AT 4PM
FAMILY SUNDAYS
JULY 7, AUGUST 4, SEPTEMBER 1,
OCTOBER 6 AND NOVEMBER 3


For Charlotte Dumas, our degree of humanity is measured by the place we give to animals in our way of living and inhabiting the world. The decline in their presence in our societies affects our sensibilities and empathic capacities. Through photography and film, the Dutch artist offers the time she considers essential to animals that have a collaborative and companionable relationship with the human species. For almost twenty years now, she has been interested in these companion species, with whom philosopher Donna Haraway urges us to co-write common histories, with shared perspectives.
In 2011, she traveled across the United States to find the rescue dogs sent to the front line at the World Trade Center and Pentagon sites after the September 11th attacks. She pays tribute to them through a gallery of portraits, of those who were turned into firefighters, the heroes of these tragic events. At Washington's Arlington Military Cemetery, she photographs and films the horses that, following a tradition still in force today, carry the coffins of war heroes to their final resting places. In the chiaroscuro of late afternoon, back in their stalls, they reveal, on the threshold of sleep, the intimacy and vulnerability of their bodies as they relax after a day's toil. Again, in northern Sweden, she devotes a film to two carriage horses: she observes their working day, as one might do with two farm workers. The woodcutter for whom they work appears incidentally in the frame, but it's the two horses that are the film's central subject. Each of the artist's works evokes a sense of wonder at the presence of animals, giving them the time and consideration they are so often deprived of today.
Charlotte Dumas is proposing a two-part exhibition, in Cajarc and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, presenting a selection of works produced over the last fifteen years. She has also conceived a new work, which associates the Lot region with Kyoto, Japan, around the figure of the horse, all in an original scenography designed by the artist. The exhibition runs until autumn at the Maison des arts in Cajarc.
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