until Monday February 01 2016

Centre Pompidou
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place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
France

In her view, Cuba represented the first-ever meeting "of socialism and cha-cha-cha". She took thousands of photographs, capturing the nonchalant gait of Cuban women, sugarcane cutting, improvised street dances and the Máximo Líder's interminable speeches to adoring crowds. Her pictures make skilful play between composition, depth of field and foreground, and evince the quality of an eye both sharp and constantly in movement.

For the first time, the Centre Pompidou exhibition enables visitors to see the astonishing photographs taken by Varda in Cuba, which recently entered the museum's collection. By placing them in dialogue with the film, screened in a loop in the exhibition area, the project recreates the tension between the fixed and moving image which is central to Agnès Varda's work.