Corey, Donna, Jane, Daphne, Giuliana, Ever, Jochem, Eric, Chris, unknown, and myself
Talia Chetrit
Sies + Höke
Nov 16 2019 — Jan 11 2020

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Corey, Donna, Jane, Daphne, Giuliana, Ever, Jochem, Eric, Chris, unknown, and myself
Sies + Höke, 2019/20 Install views courtesy Sies + Höke Galerie

 

From the Sies + Höke press release:

 

Corey, Donna, Jane, Daphne, Giuliana, Ever, Jochem, Eric, Chris, unknown, and myself is an exhibition of portraits taken from 1995-2019 by Talia Chetrit. Spanning several decades these eight photographs move us across an uncanny breadth of staged and unstaged portraits— a test photo from a fashion shoot, a portrait of a body-cast from an ancient archeological site dated 79AD, self-portraits in the artist’s home, legendary muses backstage. The edit of these photos for the participatory space of the gallery functions as an analog to the contemporary conditions of image-making and image-viewing, a grouping for which a single time-stamp can open our curiosity, and also lay flat against a network of unrelated meanings, both within the exhibition itself and within photography itself.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: from Corey, Donna, Jane, Daphne, Giuliana, Ever, Jochem, Eric, Chris, unknown, and myself, Sies + Höke, 2019/2010
L: Self Portrait (Mesh Layer) 2019: 32 x 48 archival pigment print / dibond mounting
R: Ever, Cory Tippin Make Up, 2018: 10 x 14 archival pigment print / dibond mounting

 

This is the third exhibition of Chetrit’s work we’ve helped produce for Sies + Höke. We’ve been working with Talia since 2009.

 

For more on our projects with Talia click here
For more on Talia with Sies + Höke click here

 

 

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Re-Edition AW19
Re-Edition SS19
Covers and stories
Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter 2019

 

Talia Chetrit: Re-Edition Magazine, Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter 2019

 

 

 

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POP Magazine, Binx FW18
RE-EDITION. FW18
Talia Chetrit, photographer

 

 

Talia Chetrit: POP & RE-EDITION covers, FW18

 

 

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Fashion Feature
Talia Chetrit
Document Journal
October FW18 issue

 

Talia Chetrit: Document Journal, FW18

 

 

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MAXXI BVLGARI Prize
Talia Chetri
MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo Rome
May 30th—Oct 28th, 2018

 

 

MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo Rome

 

Talia Chetrit was chosen as a finalist in the MAXXI BVLGARI Prize, the museum’s project supporting and promoting young artists in partnership with the iconic Italian luxury brand, Bulgari. In October 2018, the jury will select the winner, whose work will be acquired by the museum.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: MAXXI BVLGARI Prize, installation views
MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo Rome, 2018

 

 

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Showcaller
Talia Chetrit
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
February 17 – March 25

 

Talia Chetrit: Showcaller, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2018

 

The exhibition, Showcaller, was conceived especially for the Kölnischer Kunstverein, and is comprised of predominately new and revisited works.

 

LTI-Lightside has been producing exhibition works for Talia Chetrit since 2009. See more of her work here.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Untitled (Body), 2018, Silver Gelatin Print, 10″ × 7″
from Showcaller, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2018

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Nipple/Chain, 2012, Silver Gelatin Print, 20″ × 16″
from Showcaller, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2018

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Fennel, 2015, Silver Gelatin Print, 9″ × 12″
from Showcaller, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2018

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Showcaller, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2018

 

 

 

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Poser
Talia Chetrit
Sies + Höke
Sept 8 – Oct 8

 

 
Talia Chetrit: Poser Sies + Höke, September 2017

 

 

From the Sies + Höke press release:

 

In Poser Talia Chetrit takes her own archive as the subject of an exhibition. In this show she presents two rooms of staged photographs taken over a 23 year span as a contiguous body—portraits taken by Chetrit as a teenager of her friends, all aged 12-15 from 1994-1997, and three new self-portraits shot in 2017. In the first set of photographs we see crops of young girls’ faces, other girls in lackadaisical repose, two listlessly lying on a bed nude as well as more recent, provocative images Chetrit has taken of herself—donning only panty hose on her face or a plastic shirt, both in overly dramatized makeup.

 

The work is possible within scalar and temporal shifts of representation that call the very processes of image making into question—framing and reframing the failures of her subjects’ intentions, of pretense and of appearing. Her preoccupation with the memory of those early shoots gives impetus to this show as something beyond ‘autobiography’, however.  At the time, she—newly behind the lens as an artist—and her friends were enacting their burgeoning agencies through each other, as peers, sharing in the spectacle of these photoshoots; this—opposed to her present experience, in which she uses these same images of the girls, then more than half age that she is now, along side images of her adult self—elicits a potently perverse anachronism. We see structures of power and dynamics of relations, prescience of our younger selves, all stripped bare and redressed by turns.

 

She has consistently, and by necessity, been concerned with the limits of the self-image and the implication of others in her practice. The forensic aspect of this work allows the artist to produce a double take on her own processes. The leaky, violent sophistication of the teen murder scenes alongside the almost clown level of makeup and ‘costuming’ –in both the images taken of her friends, and those she takes of herself–are leveled on a strange plane of equivalence. Like her previous shows, this work sits inside the unbounded intersections of staging and discovery, of human bodies, objects and meaning, which naturally emerge when photography is considered an act of performance—it’s through this process that Chetrit continually reappraises her role as a photographer and that of photography itself.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: installation view Poser,  Sies + Höke, 2017

 

This is the third exhibition of Chetrit’s work we’ve helped produce for Sies + Höke. We’ve been working with Talia since 2009.

For more on our projects with her click here
For more on I’m selecting at Sies + Höke click here

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Face 1, 1994 / 2017. 
14″ archival inkjet print

 

 

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Talia Chetrit
Kaufmann Repetto
September 15 – October 31

 

 

Kaufmann Repetto: Talia Chetrit installation view
September 15 – October 31, 2016

This is the third exhibition we’ve helped produce for Talia Chetrit with Kaufmann Repetto. We’ve been working with Talia since 2009.

 

 

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), Exhibitions, Film Processing, Kaufman Repetto, Scanning, Talia Chetrit

I’m Selecting
Talia Chetrit
Sies + Höke
May 12 – June 19

 

Talia Chetrit: from I’m Selecting at Sies + Höke
L: Untitled (Bottomless #2), 2015
R: Untitled (Street #9), 2015

 

From the Sies + Höke press release:

 

I’m Selecting, Talia Chetrit’s second exhibition at Sies + Höke, comprises two discrete bodies of work. One consists of 13 images shot on the streets of New York and Paris. The other, made using a mirror, is a suite of four photographs which depict the artist in her studio, nude from the waist down. Tightly cropped and grainy, semi-anonymized images of businessmen crossing the street and groups of people buying museum tickets typify the impersonal. While, contrastingly, the artist stares back at her viewer in bottomless, startling self-portraits.

 

The seeming incongruity between these two series is bridged by the amount of control exercised over both. Chetrit’s focus has long been aimed at the ways in which images are constructed and the manner in which they function in society: their contrivances, their agendas, and their fictions. Often the body serves as a site for this exploration of photography’s tenets, and in I’m Selecting, Chetrit uses the bodies of others as well as her own. These images are a reminder of the degree of self-scrutiny we impose on ourselves when we know our pictures are being taken, and the feeling of panic inspired by being photographed without realizing it.

 

Here the artist has brought these two emotions into the same room. It is clear that the unwitting subjects of the street photographs haven’t been given the opportunity to pose for the camera. Instead their images are forged after the fact – Chetrit has seemingly scoured her negatives for marginal moments of intrigue, cropping and enlarging to direct our attention to individuals who never sought it in the first place. It is therefore an almost conciliatory gesture that the artist reinserts herself into this narrative. Chetrit’s four half-nudes are an objectification and aestheticization of the artist’s own body, ostensibly revealing much more of herself than what she has taken from her subjects on the street. If control is the the guiding principle in I’m Selecting, then Chetrit deploys it in two fashions: on one hand taking control over images of others that initially had none, and on the other carefully crafting self-portraits that relinquish the possibility of that very control.

 

- Patrick Armstrong

 

 

 

 

Talia Chetrit: I’m Selecting at Sies + Höke
Untitled (Bottomless #’s 1-4)



Talia Chetrit: I’m Selecting at Sies + Höke
Untitled (Street #’s 1-12)

 

This is the second Talia Chetrit exhibition we’ve helped produced for Sies + Höke. We’ve been working with Talia since 2009.

For more on our projects with her click here
For more on I’m selecting at Sies + Höke click here

 

 

Tags: Archival Pigment Printing (Inkjet), Exhibitions, Sies + Höke Galerie, Talia Chetrit

Model
Talia Chetrit
Kaufman Repetto / Milan
November 20 – January 10

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Parents in the Sun #1,  2014
From Model, Kaufman Repetto, Milan
20 x 25 digital-c print, acrylic mount

 

 

From the Kaufman Repetto press release:

 

In Model, Talia Chetrit reflects on the complex relationship between reality and representation, investigating themes of authenticity in the photographic medium through the exchange between subject and photographer. Alongside the new series of photographs, a video captures Talia Chetrit’s parents – present in earlier photographic works – as unwitting subjects of a collection of video clips. Parents candidly records the self-conscious posturing of the artist’s mother and father, contrasting the act of staging an image with the relationships created in the act of photographic portrayal.

While Talia Chetrit photographs, a digital camera films the artist’s unsuspecting parents, capturing interstitial situations – bits of conversations and gestures – whose intimacy is made public. The video exposes what happens behind the curtains of the photographic sessions, moments which lead to an image but are normally left out of the final photograph, revealing the view of the artist as curious, voyeuristic and directorial. Explicitly rendered is a vulnerable and private exchange between three members of a family, as well as a photographer and her models.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Parents, 2014
Installation view, Kaufman Repetto, Milan

This process exposes artifice – the posing of subjects for a desired effect – while simultaneously revealing the net of relationships that exist between husband and wife, parents and daughter. Accordingly, the family unit alternates between complicity and disobedience to the power dynamic that exists between the photographer and the portrayed subject. The ostensible sincerity of the candid camera gives a window to the illusory character of photography.

The accompanying series of photographs show Talia Chetrit’s parents gazing into each other’s eyes, then at their phones or a compact mirror, then back at the camera lens. Employing a number of photographic styles, the components of which allude to authenticity or staging, Chetrit debases the tropes of portraiture. Encountered after viewing Parents in the adjacent gallery, a seemingly candid image taken from a second floor balcony feels intently posed. The use of three different camera formats further highlight the ways in which the fabrication of an image influences its reception.

The interrelation of the video and photographic works in Model places emphasis on the unseen structures inherent to photography, investigating the role of photographer and subject as both attempt to fashion an image that reads as sincere. What becomes visible through Talia Chetrit’s laying bare of her working process is that from behind the camera lens sincerity can also be constructed.

 

 

Talia Chetrit: Parents / Trees, 2014
From Model, Kaufman Repetto, Milan
20 x 24 conventionally enlarged silver gelatin print, museum board mount

 

 

Aside from the video piece, this exhibition includes (5) digital-c prints and (5) conventionally enlarged silver gelatin prints. You can see installation views and more from Kaufman Repetto here.

 

This is LTI/Lightside’s third solo exhibition  with Talia Chetrit — see more here.

 

 

 

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