Sarah Moon

From a Season to another

As part of the Tenth Moscow International Biennale of Fashion and Style in Photography 2017, MAMM presents ‘From a Season to Another’, an exhibition by luminary of French and world art, the photographer Sarah Moon. The Moscow House of Photography Museum first staged a retrospective exhibition by Sarah Moon for the Photobiennale 98, and ever since she has been a regular participant at festivals organised by the museum.
Sarah Moon’s solo exhibitions have been acclaimed worldwide, in Paris, Arles, London, New York, Hamburg, Stockholm, Prague, Tokyo, Kyoto and Moscow, and her art films have received prestigious awards at film festivals. Sarah Moon is the author of documentary films about the great Henri Cartier-Bresson and legendary publisher Robert Delpire.
Sarah Moon claims that cinema inspired her to become an artist. ‘If you dig very deep, then for me the pioneer of the power of the image and visual picture was Sergei Eisenstein. All his films influenced me and made a significant contribution before I discovered photography for myself...’
The essence of the photographer’s work, according to Sarah Moon, is to articulate the story behind the actual shot. Moon shows equal expertise in black and white photographs, admitting that she likes the distance guaranteed by a monochrome image, and in her colour portfolio, where she devises her own unique colour palette.
The ‘From a Season to Another’ a new project created from 2010 to 2015, represents a new stage in the work of Sarah Moon, comprises an elegy on autumn and decay that demands colour and spurns distance. For the first time she uses large format and her images turn into magical pictures, where the figurative and non-figurative are balanced in a strange flickering, they are sad and light, revealing Sarah Moon’s continually developing artistic world anew.