In Venice, Ca' Pesaro hosts Ann Ray's solo exhibition entitled Blind Faith.

Blind Faith is a photography exhibition by French artist and filmmaker Ann Ray, hosted through June 2 at the Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice. Relating to shots taken over the past fourteen years, the exhibition bears witness to numerous encounters between Ray and numerous figures from the art world, from actors to writers, choreographers, dancers, filmmakers, and composers such as Willem Dafoe, Alexander Mcqueen and Michail Baryshnicov among others.

The photographer’s instruction was to pose with eyes closed, with the purpose of communicating a subliminal truth that requires the muteness of sight, seen as a form of interference. It is said that the eyes are the mirror of the soul, but perhaps there can be a channel to decipher the innermost thoughts, dreams and feelings. This is the artist’s attempt to offer an insight into the abstract, the invisible and the unspoken, to arrive at a deeper understanding of human nature.

Born in Brest, France, Ray has been a photographer and film-maker, mostly self-taught, since the age of 11. She later studied alternative photography - inspired by the Pictorialist movement - at Central Saint Martins in London in the late 1990s. From 1995 to 1997 she worked in Tokyo for Cartier, Givenchy and editorial entities such as Elle and Marie Claire. In 1997 she moved to London and began a collaboration with The Times that would last ten years, focusing on portraits, and with Vogue UK. During this time she joined the creative team of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, an experience from which grew a photo archive of 35,000 analog photos, taken over the course of thirteen years. For more than a decade she has been engaged in a collaboration with theOpéra de Paris and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. For the duration of the 2007 and 2009 seasons (September to June), her works were exhibited at the Palais Garnier: Double Game, a series of blow-ups of artists’ portraits. He presented his project Metamorphosis - film and photography - in New York, at the Museum at FIT, in 2015. In 2018, the project Les Inachevés - The Unfinished, Lee McQueen became an exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles, and then landed in China as part of the Jimei x Arles Photo Festival. Ann Ray’s work has been the subject of major acquisitions from private and public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Bachelot Collection, the Carmignac Foundation, and the Yvon Lambert Collection. Since 2008 he has published five books, Nicolas Le Riche, Mirame, 24 hours in a man’s life, Love looks not with the eyes and Les Inachéves. The artist currently lives in Paris.

For all information about the exhibition you can visit the official website of Ca’ Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art.

Pictured: Willem Dafoe in a shot by Ann Ray

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In Venice, Ca' Pesaro hosts Ann Ray's solo exhibition entitled Blind Faith.

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