Social Practice

New Work: Sylvie Blocher

Friday, February 23, 2007 - Sunday, May 13, 2007French artist Sylvie Blocher has been working on her Living Pictures video series since 1992. This ongoing project is made up of multiple site-specific video installations. Each work follows a basic format: the artist recruits volunteers through classified ads and other postings, then conducts filmed interviews with these subjects. Editing the videos into a compilation, Blocher creates a group portrait out of individual encounters. Her interviewing technique opens up possibilities for personal response and reflection and touches on issues such as immigration, privacy, memory, and the authority of the artist. This exhibition features Living Pictures/Je et Nous, a 2003 project in which Blocher filmed volunteers wearing T-shirts printed with statements they had written. In addition, it includes a new San Francisco-based installment of Living Pictures, commissioned by SFMOMA.

MEMBER EVENTSPreviews and Events for New Work: Sylvie Blocher, Picasso and American Art, and Brice Marden
Members are invited to take a first look at New Work: Sylvie Blocher, Picasso and American Art, and Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings at special events before the exhibitions open to the public. The member evening reception features refreshments and entertainment, while the daytime preview offers private access to the exhibition galleries.Member Preview and Reception
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Artist’s Circle and Director’s Circle members
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. upper-level members
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. general members
Museum-wide

Member Preview Day
Thursday, February 22, 2007
11:00 a.m. - 8:45 p.m.
All members
Fourth- and fifth-floor galleries

Watch your mailbox for an invitation.

Also in conjunction with Brice Marden and Picasso and American Art

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Lecture Series
Artist Talk: Sylvie Blocher
Sylvie Blocher, artist
February 22, 2007
6:15 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
One of France’s most notable multimedia artists, Blocher produces site-specific installations that explore concepts of otherness, authority, representation, memory, and the political responsibility of art. By interviewing strangers and compiling group portraits from the individual encounters, Blocher encourages different ways of viewing and understanding the world. She will discuss her ongoing video series Living Pictures as well as the new work commissioned by SFMOMA on view in the galleries.Free with Museum admission.