After a European tour, the traveling photographic exhibition designed by Florent To Lay makes a stop at the Musée de Charlevoix.
In 1927 - the year August Sander visited Sardinia and took the photographs presented in this exhibition - the island was described in the collective imagination as exotic and wild, a land “outside the circuit of civilization”. Yet this land at the centre of the Mediterranean was on the cusp of great change.
August Sander approaches the island as a documentary photographer. He skilfully transforms his testimony into a timeless narrative, giving this project, which remained mysteriously unpublished throughout his life, an extraordinary modernity.
“Allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our time and its people”.
August Sander, 1927
Here is a collective narrative that brings together history and the little stories of people and landscapes, through photographs that have now become testimonies, renewing the invitation to explore a land that still today meets the expectations of the most passionate travellers.
By following Sander's lens (and his footsteps), we are invited not just to linger in front of the individual shots, but to plunge beyond them, to explore the off-field.
From June 15 to September 8, 2024