A collaborative dialogue between Collier Schorr and Anne Collier, “Shutters, Frames, Collections, Repetition” consists of portraits, nudes, and studies whose exposed subjects are frequently framed by the formats of the medium itself. ‘In photography,’ Schorr notes, ‘there is always the presence of the echo: shutters, frames, collections, repetition. The photographic body […] is gazed at, gazes back, enjoys being the scene.’ A near-doubling of names that complicates simple reading of the project, the exhibition asserts that Schorr and Collier see themselves when they read about the other.
Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963. As part of the heady New York art world of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Schorr’s early work mined the vernacular of postmodernism to create photographs that toe the line between documentary and fiction. Often using her subjects allegorically, Schorr’s work navigates the auspices of identity politics to ask beguiling questions about the nomenclature of selfhood. By introducing autobiographical referents and post-appropriation aesthetics into her practice, Schorr’s ongoing body of work negotiates the fluid nature of authorship and performance in relation to portraiture. 8 Women, her most recent exhibition at 303 Gallery, incorporated elements of Schorr’s editorial and fashion work into her artistic dialogue, unpacking the subjective natures of objecthood and representation. Schorr has exhibited her work internationally at prestigious venues that include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland; Le Consortium, Dijon; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Consorcio Salamanca, Spain. Five monographic publications on Schorr’s recent bodies of work have been published by MAC K, United Kingdom. Schorr attended New York’s School of Visual Arts, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
EXHIBITION
SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN?
New Forms for Contemporary Image Production
Curators : Walead Beshty, Elad Lassry, Zanele Muholi, Collier Schorr
From July 4th to September 25th, 2016
La Mécanique Générale, Parc des Ateliers
13200 Arles
France
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