Insights: Karima Boudou
Continuous Signals. On the Photographs of Nicole Leblanc
We are delighted to invite you to an evening dedicated to the photographs of Nicole Leblanc, hosted by art historian and curator Karima Boudou. During the event, she will present her latest research conducted during a residency at the Foundation, exploring and reflecting on this remarkable photographic archive.
Locating herself within the archive by taking as a starting point three photographs taken during Walter and Nicole’s trip to Morocco in the spring of 1968, Boudou reflects on Nicole Leblanc’s interest in the act of looking as not only an optical process but as a temporal, spatial, and social experience. While the subject matter in Nicole Leblanc's photography ranges widely, it is informed by an incisive critical scrutiny of the conventions, protocols, and politics of image-making and society. Her photographic production spanning several decades, continents, and countries such as Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Libya to name a few, is the result of an observational approach that combines a documentary conception of photography and the physical, bodily act of looking. Migration and displacement, gender and identity, mourning and loss, cultural history, and tensions between the natural world and the built environment are all recurring themes in Nicole Leblanc’s photographic archive.
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 6–7pm
Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation
Please confirm your attendance before 14 April