Robert Mapplethorpe in Open Your Eyes
11 October 2024—18 May 2025
Group exhibition at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
For the first time, Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse and the Galerie Le Château d’Eau are inviting visitors on a journey through their rich yet little-known photographic heritage. The exhibition presents a wide selection of photographic works from the collections of these two public art institutions, documenting major periods in the history of photography and its artists since the early twentieth century, while at the same time revealing the collections’ two, quite separate histories.
This exhibition, which is being held at Les Abattoirs, offers visitors the unprecedented opportunity to view a broad range of photographic works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, revealing the connections between not only major artists but also lesser-known artists to be discovered or rediscovered, including Hans Bellmer, Claude Batho, Gaël Bonnefon, Mohamed Bourouissa, Brassaï, Sophie Calle, Denis Darzacq, Jean Dieuzaide, Robert Doisneau, Ralph Gibson, Laura Henno, Ouka Leele, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gina Pane, Agnès Varda, Gisèle Vienne and Sabine Weiss.