Paris
Canadian Cultural Centre
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- Spanning the border between Canada and the United States, making it disappear within its colossal, flowing expanse, the Great Lakes basin is home to millions of people, including Indigenous peoples from numerous First Nations in Canada and American tribes. An extraordinary source of surface drinking water, among the largest in the world; a place of movement and exchange, commerce, work, leisure, travel, and meditation, but also of exploitation, danger, and vulnerability; this immense basin has been observed from the diversity of its shores by Robert Burley, one of the most important Canadian photographers of our time. Here, the artist creates a body of work as unique as it is exceptional, where the grandiose beauty of this elusive expanse—at times soothing, at times unsettling – evolves into a reflection on the power of the contemporary image. Stripped of all distractions, restoring the Great Lakes to their original grandeur, Robert Burley’s photographs beckon the viewer like enchanting sirens.Description
Robert Burley / Great Lakes - The Shared Horizon of Inland Seas
Until 13 Nov 2026
Recent past exhibitions
- A two-part exhibition, co-produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre and the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment. The artists brought together in the exhibition Contrast and Indifference travel the world, constantly confronting foreign contexts into which they allow themselves to enter, gently and attentively, and bear witness to what happens there. Travel is essential to their approach, as is a form of solitude conducive to observation and encounters. Guided by a critical awareness and a sensitivity to others, they reveal some of the staggering disproportions affecting humanity here and there on our planet. Avoiding the spectacular, by constantly connecting surface issues and deeper ones, they recount the tensions of the contemporary world.Description
Contrast and Indifference
Ended 16 May 2026
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Ended 16 May 2026