SELVES AND OTHERS

Posted on 2018-09-10

The most compelling photographic portraits reveal more than simply a sitter’s physical appearance – they hint at an individual’s character, suggest a psychological state, or perhaps even offer a glimpse of the sitter’s soul. Drawn from the many generous gifts Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein have donated to SFMOMA’s collection since the late 1990s, this exhibition features portraits of the self; of personas or avatars; of family members, lovers, and friends; and of strangers. Made from the nineteenth century to the present and organized thematically, the works in the exhibition were created by artists including Claude Cahun, Rineke Dijkstra, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Gillian Wearing, among many others.

Opposite – Dora Maar, Double Portrait, 1930s

Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2018

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco
94103 CA

www.sfmoma.org

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PETER FRASER – MATHEMATICS

Posted on 2018-09-10

Since the early 1980s, Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of pioneering colour photography as fine art. With an almost obsessive focus on the ‘stuff’ of the world, Fraser is concerned with the matter that comprises our everyday. Rather than constructing his photographs, Fraser establishes a conceptual framework through which to respond to found images and situations. He treats panoramic landscape and the smallest details with the same intense attention, revealing the incidental beauty and strangeness of our surroundings.

For his exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Fraser presents his most recent body of work Mathematics. Reflecting on the idea that time, space, and everything within it, can be described mathematically, Fraser brings together a series of photographs of seemingly disparate and unrelated objects and encounters – including still lifes, landscapes and portraiture. Through their oblique juxtaposition and his almost analytical focus, he draws attention to the underlying patterns and forces which shape the world and our perception of it, as well as the systems of belief through which we try to understand and describe it. In this way his work might be seen to draw our attention to the spectacular and interconnected nature of everything that surrounds us, from the sublime to the mundane.

Opposite – Untitled 2016

Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2018

Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London
NW3 6DG

www.camdenartscentre.org

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