CCC OD – Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré
1 parvis Jean Germain
37000 Tours, France
For her first major exhibition at CCC OD Suzanne Lafont created two new large corpus of works :
PLOTS & NOTES and for an institutional comedy
based on four elements : The Artist, The Index, The Formations and the Community
During the exhibition a leaflet will be released with a conversation between Suzanne Lafont and Sabeth Buchmann Graphic design : Saskia Gevaert with Suzanne Lafont, dimensions : 30 x 15 cm (folded) 30 x 100 cm (unfolded)
The publication will be available at the CCC OD bookstore more info: cccod.fr
For nearly 40 years, Suzanne Lafont's work has unfolded, exploring the photographic image and its capacity to activate modes of thought and language. Trained in philosophy by Jean-François Lyotard, the artist conceived photography as a constantly evolving visual practice.
Lafont's work emerged in the mid-1980s during her participation in the major landscape commission of the DATAR, and has been presented since the early 1990s, notably at Documenta IX and X, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, as well as at MoMA in New York, the Pinacoteca in São Paulo, the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, Mudam Luxembourg, or more recently at the Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Bordeaux. Lafont took part in numerous landmark exhibitions, such as Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London; Museum Folkwang, Essen (2008). Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009–2011), and Punctum – Reflections on Photography, Salzburger Kunstverein (2014).
Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and art critic. Buchman examines modern and contemporary art from a social-economic critical perspective with a focus on notions of work and production, film and media history, discourses of biopolitics and infrastructure.
Currently, Buchmann is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art and the Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2004, she has been Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a guest lecturer at Maumaus, Lisbon, co-editor of PoLyPen (a series on art criticism and political theory by b_books, Berlin), and a board member of the art magazine Texte zur Kunst as well as the European Kunsthalle. Her recent publications include Kunst als Infrastruktur (2023) and the co-edited volumes Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022), Die Stimme als Voice & Vote: Festschrift für Diedrich Diederichsen (2018), and Putting Rehearsals to the Test: Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016). Previous publications and activities include co-editing Art Works: Ästhetik des Postfordismus (2015), Textile Theorien der Moderne: Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (2015), and Film, Avantgarde und Biopolitik (2009); co-authoring Hélio Oiticica & Neville D’Almeida: Experiments in Cosmococa (2013); and authoring Denken gegen das Denken – Produktion, Technologie, Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica (2007). She also co-edited Art After Conceptual Art (2006) and was a founding member of the artist group Minimal Club (1984–1999) and the art and theory magazine A.N.Y.P. (1989–1999).
