The exhibition RePose ExPose CounterPose at Fondation A offers a retrospective of the artist Tarrah Krajnak, whose work explores identity, memory, and art history through photography, performance, and the archive.
RePose ExPose CounterPose presents the work of Tarrah Krajnak through a selection of major series. Born in Lima and living in the United States since early childhood, Krajnak has placed at the heart of her work the question of her origins and her dual culture, as well as the recent past of her native country, inseparable from her personal trajectory. The self-reflexive dimension of her approach is enriched by a critical rereading of the history of photography and the dominant models that underpin it.
Krajnak’s work questions both her biological and symbolic genealogy; her place in the world and in art history. This constantly renewed inquiry draws on multiple artistic strategies: bringing images into resonance with poetic texts, appropriating the canons of photography, reactivating intimate and collective memory through palimpsest and reenactment… In El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (2018-2021), presented at the opening of the exhibition, Krajnak evokes her adoption and the impossible search for her mother. Thereafter, Krajnak continues to draw on existing materials (vernacular images taken, among other sources, from the popular press), to employ practices both old (cyanotype) and contemporary (video, performance), and to question our visual culture (through the works of the “masters” Edward Weston or Ansel Adams)… Beyond the personal quest, the artist’s physical engagement in urban space—especially the city of Lima—builds a bridge between present and past, current struggles and historical ones. Krajnak thus brings into her work a wide spectrum of practices and references, which she reinvents and transforms by confronting them with our time, through her body.
Structured around two series from the Fondation A collection—1979: Contact Negatives and Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes—and complemented by several bodies of work, some previously unseen in Europe, the retrospective exhibition traces an arc from the intimate to the political, from first-person narrative to shared claims.
Sonia Voss, curator of the exhibition
Tarrah Krajnak : RePose ExPose CounterPose
From January 22 to May 17, 2026
Fondation A
304 Avenue van Volxem
1190 Brussels, Belgium
www.fondationastichting.com
