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18 June - 14 September 2008
L'envers de soi (The others side of the self) includes some of the most significant work from the photographic career of Sophie Elbaz.
As a photojournalist for Reuter and Sygma from 1986 to 1985, she covered some major events which shaped her vision, as evidenced in Contre toute attente, a photographic essay on the subject of Bosnian refugees. In 1995, she stopped working for the press and discovered Cuba. Her work on theGarcia Lorca, the Havana Opera House, pays tribute to the resilience of an inward-looking world. More recently she produced a trilogy entitled Aleyo, on the theme of the Sacred, the Body, and Politics. Cuba gradually became a workshop for her imagination, providing her with both the material and the opportunity for a "writing of the Self" capable of revealing the 'other side' of things, beyond surface appearances.
Also part of the exhibition is Sophie Elbaz's first film, an account of her search for the Sephardic roots on her father's side of the family.

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