Penser le Présent with Erica Baum and Marcelline Delbecq

Since their meeting in 2008, photographer Erica Baum and artist-writer Marcelline Delbecq have continued to exchange ideas, each taking an ever-renewed interest in the other's practice.

Over the course of their discussions and joint events at the Malmö Art Museum, the Albertine bookshop in New York and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, an endless conversation has developed, the main threads of which will be taken up in this exchange: how do they look at their surroundings? How do they experience the urbanities of New York and Paris? Why Japan? What bodies of images contribute to their reflections? What do their uses of text reveal?

A conversation in images and in English, followed by a discussion with the audience.

Erica Baum lives and works in New York. She is known for her photographic work, which combines text and image using found printed materials ranging from paperbacks and library indexes to sewing patterns from women's magazines.

Marcelline Delbecq holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art (1994) and a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College (1984). Her work can be found in many prestigious collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, New York, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CNAP Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, frac-île-de france, Paris and MAMCO, Geneva.

Marcelline Delbecq is an artist, writer, translator and doctor in the SACRe programme at the École Normale Supérieure PSL.

After studying photography in the United States and fine art and art criticism in France, her practice moved away from material production as such to focus on the potential of narrative to make images. Her texts can be recorded, read in public or published. She is the author ofEnvolée (Fléchette collection, Sun/sun, 2023), Camera (Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2019), Dialogue (with Ellie Ga, Shelter Press, 2017),Oublier, voir (Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and Manuella éditions, 2015) and Silence trompeur (Manuella éditions, 2015). She also contributes to the journals AOC, Roven, Les Carnets du Paysage and The Art Newspaper and teaches in art, landscape and design schools.