Collection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st century portrait

Now showing at Guggenheim Exhibitions, *Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait* isolates one football match to study a single body under pressure. Seventeen cameras track Zinedine Zidane in near real time, turning the stadium into a field of close-ups, gestures, and waiting. The work has circulated widely since the mid-2000s and its New York presentation places it in the city’s long conversation between cinema, performance, and museum display. Its critical edge is simple: attention becomes the subject, not the game.