Agnès Varda turns from film to installation art

18/09/09 16:34 CET

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At over 80 years of age, Agnès Varda is still reinventing herself. She started her career as a photographer before becoming a pillar of the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now she’s trying her hand at installation art.

More about: Contemporary art, France, Lyon

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