Jockey Club Community Outreach and Arts Education Programmes:
Curating ‘Noir & Blanc’ with Flora Triebel and Pauline J. Yao
Jockey Club Community Outreach and Arts Education Programmes:
Curating ‘Noir & Blanc’ with Flora Triebel and Pauline J. Yao
Since its invention in the 1820s, black-and-white photography has continued to evolve and has captured generations of artists and makers. By looking into how photographers from different generations and geographies have experimented with the medium, this exhibition, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Noir & Blanc—A Story of Photography, offers different perspectives to understand the art of black-and-white image-making over the course of more than a century.
In this talk, we explore how the aesthetics of black-and-white photography endure amidst the rise of colour photography and digital media—and ask, why do we look at black-and-white photography now? Hear from Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) Curator Flora Triebel and M+ Curator Pauline J. Yao as they share the concept behind the exhibition.
Co-organised by M+ and French May Arts Festival, this talk—one of the activities under the Jockey Club Community Outreach and Arts Education Programmes exclusively sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust—will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese.
About the Speakers
Flora Triebel is a curator of the collections of 19th century photographs at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). She has curated a number of exhibitions, most recently Degas en noir et blanc and Noir et Blanc, une esthétique de la photographie. Flora also teaches the history of photography at the École du Louvre in Paris.
Portrait of Flora Triebel. © Agathe Joubert
Pauline J. Yao is Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+. Since joining M+ in 2012, Yao has played a principal role in building the museum’s visual art collection through acquisitions of works from around Asia and beyond. For the 2021 inaugural M+ Opening Programmes, she organized Antony Gormley: Asian Field and lead the curatorial team for Individuals, Networks, Expressions.
Portrait of Pauline J. Yao. Photo: Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices
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Image at top: Mario Giacomelli, I Have No Hands to Caress My Face, 1961–1963, printed ca.1971. BnF, Paris. © Mario Giacomelli Archives