Her name: Charlotte Cotton. She is one of the new heads of ICP where she occupies a post with the fine name of Curator-in-Residence, which you can translate into French as commissaire invitée.
Her CV is impressive: 9 years at the V and A in London, of which two and half years were spent working on the Guy Bourdin retrospective. Then it was the Photographers’ Gallery following which she went to Art+Commerce, the largest photographic agency of its days, then directed by Anne Kennedy.
After a short stay at LACMA, she has joined ICP.
Why ICP?
“Because it’s more than just a gallery or a foundation, it’s a community, it’s a school, it’s a place of education and communication, of workshops and lectures. In short it’s a collection. ICP has a terrific future if it opens itself to the modern world! It has a future and a responsibility: the social issues can’t be avoided any more! By the same token, an exhibition can’t be a succession of bits of card or paper any more. An exhibition today is bringing together all forms of expression. And we leave behind this idea that successful, beautiful exhibition must be accompanied by a beautiful book. That’s a simplistic, backward-looking concept.”
