Highlighting uncertainty and contradiction, Truth or Dare emphasizes the importance of questioning both knowledge and belief by featuring artists that utilize illusion to entice, entertain, and explore the slippery terrain between fact and fiction, presence and absence, reality and imagination.
In an interdisciplinary practice that positions lens-based media as both specimen and subterfuge, Zaatari participates in the discourse against photography and its complex archival legacy.
Painters often draw from existing visual materials, such as photographs and reproductions of past works of art, to inspire and construct their work. Swedish artist Mamma Andersson known for her dreamlike, faintly narrative compositions inspired by Nordic painting, folk art, newspaper photographs, and cinema—is no exception.
Paris to New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott explores the encounter between American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) and French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) during the 1920s—an encounter that would have profound and lasting effects on the careers and legacies of both artists.
Digging Deep into the Archives explores how photographs and images are organized and the exceptional narratives and histories that they impart.
The exhibition restages the 1929 historic encounter between Blossfeldt’s plant photographs and Bruguière’s experiments in abstract photography, and juxtaposes it with the Photograms and Negatives series by contemporary artist Thomas Ruff.
Raquel André, a collector of rare things, performs Collection of Lovers.
