Category Archives: Exhibitions

In Arnaud Maggs (Steidl, 2013), Maia-Mari Sutnik notes that Maggs “achieved a landmark” with his portrait work in 1980. Assembled into a large-scale grid installation—a format now synonymous with the artist—Kunstakademie is a series of 148 black-and-white frontal and profile-view … Continue reading →

Broomberg and Chanarin’s billboards bring Shirley out of history and into a sea of contemporary consumer imagery. The portraits are juxtaposed with a graphic play of tonal and colour scales, and overlaid with the label “normal.” The new images hijack … Continue reading →

Nox Borealis (2012) is perhaps the most surprising and difficult-to-fathom work in Penumbra. Despite the generous size of these large-format, nearly 1:1 ratio images taken in Iqaluit, we can see very little. They are almost completely black, challenging our stereotype of … Continue reading →

In Aviary, Angelucci adapts known photographic genres and biological taxonomies to entirely new fictional ends. In this work she reveals other species not yet known to any system of taxonomy, suspended photographically in a state of perpetual becoming. Aviary’s photographs originate from several … Continue reading →

Queer Portraits is a series of colour photographs that capture the relationships Levine has with their community of friends, lovers, and siblings. The portraits are shot in domestic settings and are characterized by saturated colours and discursive backgrounds. Levine’s own … Continue reading →

Ischar’s body of photographs from 1985, never before seen in its entirety, were taken on the now defunct Belmont Rocks in the city of Chicago, one of the most visible urban gay beaches in North America during the height of … Continue reading →

Here, Parr highlights his interest in how the foods we buy, cook, and eat reflect broader cultural values and mediate between local and international contexts. Enlivening the terminal’s moving sidewalks, his large-format images of food documented in Toronto and around … Continue reading →

Based in Paris, the metro became a recurrent source of intrigue for Marker and he furtively documented people in the stations and crowded quarters of the trains. Passengers (2008–10), his first and only series of colour photographs, is displayed densely here … Continue reading →