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A guided tour of Robert Burley’s exhibition Grands Lacs – The Shared Horizon of Inland Seas is offered by curator Catherine Bedard. A chance to discover our new exhibition through the eyes of its curator.
Curator: Catherine Bédard Straddling the border between Canada and the United States, making it disappear within its colossal fluid mass, the Great Lakes basin brings together millions of residents around its shores, including Indigenous peoples from many First Nations in Canada and American tribes. An extraordinary source of surface drinking water (among the largest in the world); a place of movement and exchange, commerce, work, leisure, travel, and meditation, but also of exploitation, danger, and vulnerability; this immense basin has been observed from the diversity of its shores by Robert Burley, one of the most important Canadian photographers of our time. Here, the artist has created a body of work that is both unprecedented and exceptional, in which the grandiose beauty of this elusive whole, at times soothing and at times unsettling, becomes a reflection on the power of the contemporary image. Stripped of any distraction, returning the Great Lakes to their original grandeur, Robert Burley’s photographs call to the viewer like enchanting sirens. In partnership with Biinaagami, Swim Drink Fish and Canadian Geographic This project has been awarded the Bicentenary of Photography label by the Ministry of Culture and is part of the official Bicentenary program from September 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027. Inaugurated on the occasion of Nuit Blanche, this exhibition is also part of the official program of the Photodays festival, in November 2026.
Price: Free admission (guided tours by reservation)
Source: paris.fr — photo: Robert Burley, Lake Ontario, Long Point, 2024