Exhibition guide
A guided tour of the exhibition Great Lakes: The Common Horizon of the Inland Seas by Robert Burley is offered by curator Catherine Bedard. An opportunity to discover our new exhibition through the eyes of its curator.
Visit details
- Dates: Le mardi 23 juin 2026 de 19h00 à 20h00
- Venue: Centre culturel canadien à Paris, 130 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008, Paris
- Price: free
- Audience: Tout public.
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
Curator: Catherine Bédard
Spanning the border between Canada and the United States, making it disappear in its colossal fluid mass, the Great Lakes basin brings together millions of inhabitants around its edges, including Indigenous people from many Canadian First Nations and American tribes. Extraordinary surface drinking water resource (among the largest in the world); place of circulation and exchange, commerce, work, leisure, travel, meditation, but also exploitation, danger, vulnerability; this immense basin was observed from the diversity of its banks by Robert Burley, one of the most important Canadian photographers of our time.
The artist creates here a body of work as unique as it is exceptional, where the grandiose beauty of this elusive ensemble, sometimes soothing, sometimes disturbing, is transformed into a reflection on the power of the contemporary image. Stripped of any diversion, returning the Great Lakes to their original grandeur, Robert Burley's photographs call the viewer like captivating sirens.
In partnership with Biinaagami, Swim Drink Fish and Canadian Geographic
This project is labeled Bicentenary of Photography by the Ministry of Culture and is part of the official Bicentenary program from September 1, 2026 to September 30 2027.
Inaugurated on the occasion of Nuit Blanche, this exhibition is also part of the official program of the Photodays festival, in November 2026.