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24 de abr. de 2023 · Agnes Varda was a champion of feminist rights, and in her 2000 documentary 'The Gleaners and I', she used discarded potatoes as a metaphor for female ageing.
13 de jun. de 2022 · Agnès Varda was in love with life – all of it, indiscriminately, with a special fondness for its mishaps and its outcasts. The protagonists of Agnès’ work form a diverse cast: misshapen potatoes, Mona the vagabond, Zgougou the cat, the gleaners, Jaques Demy, Bavarian villagers, Noirmoutier widows.
2 de abr. de 2019 · Agnès Varda may no longer be with us, but fans are ensuring her memory lives on. Among the more traditional flowers, people have been leaving heart-shaped potatoes outside her home – a fitting tribute for a woman known fondly as dame patate.
16 de abr. de 2019 · Agnès Varda was a remarkable artist who was able to bring us to see mundane objects, like the humble potato, as subjects of wonder and inquiry capable of leading us in unexpected directions.
Varda, who saw these heart-shaped potatoes as a talismanic representation of herself, dressed up as a potato to greet visitors to the exhibit. In the following years, Varda developed 40 exhibitions that often involved “recycling” her former work in startlingly inventive ways.
The potato costume. Agnès Varda 2003. Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace. Hauterives, France. In 2003, dressed in a potato costume made of resin, Agnès Varda attended the 50th Venice Biennale to...
5 de mar. de 2017 · Agnès Varda, the celebrated “grandmother of French New Wave” likes to introduce herself as a potato. “I see myself as a heart-shaped potato—growing again,” she explained to her fans who...
