Laura Letinsky: To Peach
@ Donald Young Gallery
224 S Michigan Ave, Suite 266, Chicago, IL 60604
Opening Friday, September 17th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, November 6th
Exploring the subject of still life in her documents of the everyday, Laura Letinsky engages in a distinctive commentary upon society and existence. The emotion and psychology of Letinskyʼs subjects are wrought through an elegantly controlled perspective. Contrasting light and subject matter visually inform the formal and spatial construction of her photographs. The objects and space belie literal description; instead she utilizes photographyʼs transformative quality to change what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience.
To Peach includes photographs from four separate series of work; Fall, The Dog and the Wolf, To Say It Isnʼt So and Somewhere, Somewhere. The formal and psychological connotations of To Peach, to double, to divide, making two from one, or a half from a whole refers in this show to the structure as well as the subjects of the photographs, but more, to a quality inherent to photography itself. To Peach also suggests fecundity through abundance of light and a viscerality. Letinskyʼs interiors and still life images examine the precarious relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plentitude. These dichotomies are made formally and materially apparent through Letinskyʼs scenes that are a kind of seeing which can only happen photographically.
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