At PHotoESPAÑA 2026, LOEWE FOUNDATION presents Bunny, the first institutional solo exhibition in Spain of Talia Chetrit. Curated by Stella Bottai, the exhibition charts almost thirty years of the artist’s photography, including some of her earliest images alongside new works. It is held at Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
Born in Washington in 1982, New York-based Chetrit is renowned for a photographic style that is at once raw, arresting and bewildering. Bunny her first institutional solo exhibition in Spain attests to this fluidity. Like the character embodied by its title, Chetrit’s exhibition can seem tender, elusive, and funny all at once. The artist deploys theatricality, provocation, and vulnerability across representations of both herself and her family, and captures subjects ranging from still lifes to body parts.
Bringing together almost three decades of image making, Bunny displays Chetrit’s exploration of photography as both a tool and a subject. Her photographs move between registers of innocence, playfulness, and eroticism through a careful choreography of vantage points that shift between proximity and distance, above and below. Works vary greatly in scale, from intimate prints like Boob Chair (Lygia Pape), 2021 to monumentally enlarged images like Ella/Plastic Bottle, 2026.
Chetrit’s sustained commitment to analogue photography from the 1990s to the present day creates a sense of cohesiveness between her different bodies of work. This rigorous consistency of medium enables the artist to move seamlessly between varied subjects and moments, even when they are distant, and collapse them into a single sequence with each new presentation. Through juxtaposition, images from the past are re-coded, generating a sense of simultaneity, both visual and semantic, across the works. In Bunny, Chetrit places some of her earliest photographs shot when still a teenager alongside new works exhibited here for the first time. Motifs chains, breasts, bottles, bellies rebound and return. Core concerns of family, sexuality, and selfhood are revisited through new temporal, and spatial, perspectives.
The exhibition also engages with the complexities of care and codependency in relationship to birthing and personhood, as seen in works including Milk on Back, 2020 and Untitled (Family no. 1). In Chetrit’s self-staging here, motherhood is not a fixed identity, but rather an expanded mode of being, in which mother, subject, and artist coexist.
Under a curatorial concept of “Reimagining”, PHotoESPAÑA 2026 emphasizes such questioning of accepted reality and authority, and champions the curiosity, imagination, and liberation that can be achieved through image making. This year’s festival also pays particular attention to the relationship between fashion photography and the creative avant-garde, an intersection that vividly animates Chetrit’s practice, from brand collaborations including her vivid campaigns for LOEWE, to artistic works included in Bunny such as Untitled (Model), 2024.
Bunny marks the 15th year of LOEWE FOUNDATION’s partnership with PHotoESPAÑA and follows on from previous exhibitions of Dora Maar in 2025, also held at Museo Lázaro Galdiano, and on the Surrealist Centennial in 2024.
Talia Chetrit : Bunny
Until August 30, 2026
Museo Lázaro Galdiano
C. de Serrano, 122, Salamanca
28006 Madrid, Spain
www.museolazarogaldiano.es
