{"title":"Marguerite Duras","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarguerite Duras (1914–1996) was a French novelist, playwright and filmmaker whose work — from \u003cem\u003eUn barrage contre le Pacifique\u003c\/em\u003e (1950) to \u003cem\u003eL’Amant\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) — consistently tested the boundaries between memory, desire, image and text. As a filmmaker she developed a radical approach to the relationship between voice and image, most fully realised in \u003cem\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), where she used still photographs by Édouard Boubat to stand in for a character physically absent from the film. Her preface to Boubat’s \u003cem\u003eBoubat par Boubat\u003c\/em\u003e (1979) extended that engagement: she understood in his photographs an ability to catch people at the point where identity begins to slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"edouard-boubat-boubat-par-boubat-arc-musee-art-moderne-paris-1980","title":"ÉDOUARD BOUBAT — Boubat par Boubat, ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation to the inauguration of \u003cem\u003eBoubat\u003c\/em\u003e at ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 29 February 1980; exhibition to 7 April 1980. Printed in black on cream card, typewriter-style typography. 10.5 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition began in Lyon in 1979 as \u003cem\u003eBoubat par Boubat: un choix de photographies 1947–1979\u003c\/em\u003e, with Boubat selecting thirty-two years of his own images and Marguerite Duras writing the preface. In February 1980 the project moved from the Fondation nationale de la Photographie into ARC, the experimental contemporary-art programme of the Musée d’Art moderne. The itinerary matters: photographer → archive → self-selection → museum author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuras’s presence was anything but decorative. While making \u003cem\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/em\u003e, she had used Boubat photographs to stand in for a character physically absent from the film — a still image made to perform as a body: present, remembered and unreachable at once. She understood something unusually sharp in his work: that beneath its celebrated tenderness was an ability to catch people at precisely the point where identity begins to slip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation image almost seems designed around that idea. Its figure turns away from us, partially swallowed by hair, flowers and a decorative screen. We see a body but are denied the face. Presence becomes withholding. Portrait becomes disappearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eARC was during these years actively testing photography’s relationship to contemporary art, presenting Florence Henri, Robert Doisneau and Boubat alongside broader debates about photographers working increasingly close to the territory of artists. This card belongs not simply to a Boubat retrospective, but to the period in which French photography was being renegotiated as museum material. The same year Roland Barthes published \u003cem\u003eLa Chambre claire\u003c\/em\u003e. No direct connection needs to be invented. The atmosphere is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Clean vintage condition with light age toning and minimal handling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period exhibition ephemera; not a photographic print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARC, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257454514514,"sku":"BOUBAT-ARC-INV-1980","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Boubat.ShowinviteARCMuseed_artModerne.1980.jpg?v=1786676517"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/marguerite-duras.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}