At First Sight - Coup de Foudre

Caruana, Natasha (2015) At First Sight - Coup de Foudre. [Exhibition/show, Photography]

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Love at First Sight / 'Coup de Foudre'

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Love at First Sight / 'Coup de Foudre'

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Install image, At First Sight/'Coup de Foudre', Grand Palais, Paris Photo, 2015

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Install image, At First Sight/'Coup de Foudre', Grand Palais, Paris Photo, 2015

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Brasca, S, (2015), de l’air, le magazine qui donne a voir, France, pp 42 - 44

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Bainbridge, S, (2016) British Journal of Photography, Look and Learn, London, Aptitude Media, pp 68 - 74

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Guerreni, S and Gilli, (2015) G, Oltre L’immagine, Inconscio e fotografia, Postcart, Rome, pp 130 - 143

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Exhibition Guide, Photo50 Feminine Masculine, Modern British Contemporary Art, London Art Fair, 2015

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Exhibition Guide, Rencontres de Arles, At First Sight, 2015

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Arles 2015, (2015), Le Recontres De La Photopgraphie, Coup de Foudre / At First Sight, Italy,EBS à Vérone, pp170-177

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Bruvere, I, (2016) Riga Photography Festival, 2016, Rigas Fotografijas Biennale, Riga, pp 48 - 51

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Creators:

Caruana, Natasha

Description/Abstract:

Caruana's project for the 2014 BMW Residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, searches for the truth behind love at first sight or ‘coup de foudre’ (bolt of lightning in English). Her work explores personal experience alongside investigating the subject through the work of neuroscientists, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists.

Using photography as her tool, Caruana unpicks the personal experience of falling in love at first sight during her residency in Chalon. In her search for the truth she turns to science, Mother Nature and other people’s accounts of this romantic phenomenon.

Science challenges the romantic, fairytale, happily-ever-after notion of love. Turning to Charles Darwin’s seminal text On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (published in 1859), and research by academic Alfred Kinsey who wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), and second book about female humans and sexual behaviour five years later, Caruana found the counter argument to her experience; she could not investigate the romance of humans without employing science to explore love at first sight in a critical, objective way.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Other Contributors:

François Cheval (Curator), Hannah Redler (Curator), Federica Chiocchetti (Curator), Inga Bruvere (Curator)

Official URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN08baDzmS0

Date:

7 July 2015

Funders:

BMW Art and Culture France, University for the Creative Arts

Locations / Venues:

Location

From Date

To Date

Riga Festival, Riga, Latvia

April 2016

Photo50, London Art Fair, London, UK

20 January 2016

24 January 2016

Paris Photo, The Grand Palais, Paris, France

12 November 2015

15 November 2015

Rencontres d’Arles, Salle Henri Comte, Arles, France

6 July 2015

31 August 2015

Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, France

2015

Love is an Act, Open Data Institute, London

16 July 2015

23 May 2016

Additional Information:

Accompanying publication
Supporting 'making of' documentary

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

BMW (Award Winner), Documenta (Film Genre), François Goizé, BMW (Automobile Company), Niepce, Caruana, Photographer (Profession)

Schools:

School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography

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Depositing User:

Ms. Natasha Caruana

Date Deposited:

31 Jul 2017 16:41

Last Modified:

08 Mar 2018 15:59

Caruana, Natasha

Art/Design Categories:

Exhibition/show, Photography

URI:

https://uca-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/3473

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