Monday | Closed |
Today | Closed |
Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
Thursday | 11am–9pm |
Friday | 11am–6pm |
Saturday | 11am–6pm |
Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Dec 24: 11am to 4pm
Dec 25: closed
Dec 26: 12pm to 5pm
Dec 29: 11am to 6pm
Dec 30: 11am to 9pm
Dec 31: 11am to 6pm
Jan 1: closed
Jan 2: 11am to 6pm
The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the CCA on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment. In light of the pioneering efforts the CCA has made since its foundation in redefining the role of photography within the field of architecture as well as within research institutions and collections, the project is conceived as a display of open research where works of authors from the 1970s until today—from the CCA collection and beyond—are presented together with unpublished projects, books, publication mock-ups, interviews, and documents connected to the production of the works themselves.
Curated by Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is structured as an exhibition, an oral history conducted in cinematographic form, a series of commissioned artists’ books, and a web issue. The project aims to dissect the practice of artists and photographers whose work has crucially contributed to defining thresholds of transformation of the discipline within the last fifty years in relation to specific topics—from the notion of landscape to the complexity of the archive as a project format, among others.
The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project embraces the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photographic language, and questions the relevance and actuality of photography as a means to interrogate and interpret the mechanisms that are modelling our visible world.
You can search for everything here—our exhibitions and events, our archives, the library and bookstore, the articles we publish. If you have any questions, please email us at publications@cca.qc.ca.
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