CHARON LOCKHART – MILENA
2015-11-23For over 20 years, Lockhart has immersed herself in the daily lives of her subjects to make films and photographs that capture human vulnerability and authenticity through studied, choreographed compositions. During the production of her celebrated 2009 film Podwórka in Poland, Lockhart was struck by nine-year-old Milena’s strong presence and involvement as a sort of impromptu director. This exhibition emerges from the collaboration and friendship that has grown between them. At the center of the exhibition is the photographic triptych Milena, Jarosław, 2013 (2014), which shows Milena, now a young woman, seated at a domestic table in three apparently successive moments. In this portrait, Milena partially obscures her face and controls her own visibility. In a parallel gesture, the photographs are placed on specially conceived architectural volumes that choreograph the visitor’s movement through the gallery’s main exhibition space. As an installation, the work paces a gradual reveal of Milena as well as the interaction between her, the camera and the viewer, exposing the multifarious act of looking that is embedded within the practice of photography
Opposite – Untitled Study (Rephotographed Snapshot #18), 2015
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2016
neugerriemschneider
Linienstrasse 155
B-10115 Berlin
Germany
