jorge alberto cadi in sophie calle’s exhibition
Sophie Calle celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in her own way, with the exhibition À toi de faire ma mignonne, which takes a curious, offbeat look at a selection of Picasso’s most emblematic works.
The artist also calls on artists who have marked his personal narrative, such as the raw artist Jorge Alberto Cadi. Represented by the gallery, Cadi or “El Buzo” - the diver - seeks above all to reveal what images hide.
In the streets of Havana, everyone knows Jorge Alberto Cadi as « El Buzo » - the diver - because he’s constantly searching material for his works in the city’s abandoned objects. Boltanskian by his memorial use of photography, Warholian by his taste for stitching images together, Cadi always seeks to reveal what these photographs are hiding. Exhibited for the very first time in 2019 by the gallery, then in 2022 at Paris Photo, he was presented the same year in the 2nd part of Photo brut which, after the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, was hosted at the Centrale and the Botanique, in Brussels. His work is included in the collections of the Musée national d’Art moderne (Pompidou). In 2023, he was exhibited by Sophie Calle at the Musée Picasso.