Sophie Hackett
Born 1971 in Montreal, Canada.
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Sophie Hackett is the curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto. Hackett’s areas of special interest include vernacular photographs, photography in relation to queerness, and photography in Canada. Her curatorial projects include Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It) (2010), Max Dean: Album, A Public Project (2012), What It Means to Be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility (2014), Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography (2014), Introducing Suzy Lake (2014), Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s (2016), Anthropocene (2018), Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971 (2020), and What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life (2022).
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Sophie Hackett is the curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto. Hackett’s areas of special interest include vernacular photographs, photography in relation to queerness, and photography in Canada. Her curatorial projects include Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It) (2010), Max Dean: Album, A Public Project (2012), What It Means to Be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility (2014), Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography (2014), Introducing Suzy Lake (2014), Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s (2016), Anthropocene (2018), Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971 (2020), and What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life (2022).
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4 July
FAMILY PORTRAITS, GENDER PHOTOS (PÉPITES, LOUIE MEDIA)
Round table
Led by Sébastien Thème, host of Pépites, with director Sébastien Lifshitz, curators Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett (Casa Susanna) and Rebecca Amsellem, founder of Les Glorieuses media.
What traces do we leave of our intimacy and what do we show of ourselves and of our families to the external gaze? At the foot of the Catskills, in the American countryside of the 50s and 60s, Casa Susanna is a destination for new-yorkers on weekends. Just like any family on a holiday, they come to play cards and swim to relax. But in this refuge for transgender identity, they are dressed as typical housewives. While being outcasts out of sight, they still take pictures of themselves. In 2004, photographs reappear on a New-York flea market. “Ordinary women, just like those you can see in every family photo-album,” writes Isabelle Bonnet in her article Les Photographies retrouvées de la Casa Susanna. This round table will question the family photo genre through the story of Casa Susanna…
What traces do we leave of our intimacy and what do we show of ourselves and of our families to the external gaze? At the foot of the Catskills, in the American countryside of the 50s and 60s, Casa Susanna is a destination for new-yorkers on weekends. Just like any family on a holiday, they come to play cards and swim to relax. But in this refuge for transgender identity, they are dressed as typical housewives. While being outcasts out of sight, they still take pictures of themselves. In 2004, photographs reappear on a New-York flea market. “Ordinary women, just like those you can see in every family photo-album,” writes Isabelle Bonnet in her article Les Photographies retrouvées de la Casa Susanna. This round table will question the family photo genre through the story of Casa Susanna…
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Cour Fanton
5 July
PANEL DISCUSSION BREAKFAST
CASA SUSANNA
PANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWED BY A SIGNING
With curators Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett (Casa Susanna).
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Croisière
6 July
CASA SUSANNA
Exhibition tour
By curators Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett.
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Espace Van Gogh
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