MACRO presents Hervé Guibert: This and More, an exhibition offering a selection of photographs by the French writer, journalist and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955-1991). The exhibition project, curated by Anthony Huberman, is created in collaboration with the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where it was exhibited from 9 June to 30 July 2022, and with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, where will move from June 9 to August 20, 2023.

If Guibert's photographic work is mainly associated with portraits, in this case the exhibition explores a nucleus of unusual works, in which the artist rather captures the absence of the human element: the photographs do not contain faces but inanimate objects, interiors and domestic spaces full of memories and emotions that evoke the presence of off-camera characters.

Guibert's production has moved between writing and image: he has published several literary works - including L'Image fantôme, also published in Italy (L'immagine ghost, ContrastoBooks, 2021) -, he was a photographic critic for Le Monde, a photographer and director. His legacy is marked by his premature death due to AIDS, a disease that Guibert first recounted in the novel À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie – recently translated into Italian (To the friend who didn't save me the vita, GOG editions, 2022) – where the agony of his philosopher friend Michel Foucault appears, and therefore in the autobiographical film La Pudeur ou l'impudeur.

Well known in France, where his work has helped raise public awareness of AIDS, Guibert has had a special relationship with Italy. Passionate about the cinema of Pasolini, Fellini and Antonioni, he stayed for a long time on the Island of Elba where he wrote many of his texts during his life. He also lived in Rome, between 1987 and 1989 in residence at Villa Medici and extending his stay the following year as well.