Highlights: La Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

Claudia Andujar was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1931 and currently lives and works in São Paolo. She grew up in Transylvania, which at the time had recently been incorporated to Romania after years of Hungarian domination. During WWII, Claudia’s father, a Hungarian Jew, was deported to Dachau where he was killed along with most of her paternal relatives. Claudia Andujar fled with her mother to Switzlerand, immigrated first to the United States in 1946, then to Brazil in 1955 where she began a career as a photojournalist. Claudia Andujar first met the Yanomami in 1971 while working on an article about the Amazon for Realidade magazine. Fascinated by the culture of this isolated community, she decided to embark on an in-depth photographic essay on their daily life after receiving a Guggenheim fellowship to support the project. The photographs she made during this period show how she experimented with a variety of photographic techniques in an attempt to visually translate the shamanic culture of the Yanomami.

Filmmaker, photographer and international journalist, Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, holds a unique place in the field of the contemporary image. In 1967, he co-founded the Gamma Agency, and in 1978, he joined the Magnum Agency for whom he would carry out reports all over the world up until the beginning of the 1980s. While continuing to practice photography on a daily basis, he later turned his attention to documentary film, making use of the direct cinema genre, including the Profils paysans trilogy: L’Approche, Le Quotidien and La Vie moderne (2001-2008).

Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruté Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape as each establishes frequency and/or temporal bandwidth within a given habitat. His contributions helped establish the foundation of a new bioacoustic discipline, soundscape ecology. Krause has produced over 50 natural soundscape albums in addition to the design of interactive, non-redundant environmental sound sculptures for museums and other public spaces throughout the world.

Filmmaker, photographer, painter, and designer, David Lynch (born 1946) creates polymorphic and dreamlike work. Through the multiplicity of his practices, he invents a mysterious, disturbing, strange, and poetic universe. Trained at the School of Fine Arts of Philadelphia, he has always devoted a large part of his creative activity to plastic arts, experimenting with all forms of creation. He has been known mainly as a film director and author of cult films as Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Drive (2001), and the Twin Peaks series (1990–91; 2017).

Jean Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and then ranked first in the entrance examination of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1966, graduating in 1972. Assistant to the architect Claude Parent and inspired by urbanist and essayist Paul Virilio, he started his first architecture practice in 1970. Jean Nouvel is the architect of many buildings around the world, including the Institut du Monde Arabe, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris; the Torre Glòries in Barcelona; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid; One Central Park in Sydney; Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, United States; the Danish Radio Concert House in Copenhagen; and the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Sarah Sze gleans objects and images from worlds both physical and digital, assembling them into complex multimedia works. Her dynamic, generative body of work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Sze’s work is exhibited in museums worldwide and held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions.

Sze was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 and a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005. In 2013, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited in museums worldwide and is held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern, London.