This Solo Show of the artist Adam Fuss presents the largest daguerreotypes ever made, portraits of individual figures in the Taj Mahal’s dados rail of flowers, notably lilies, roses, tulips and poppies. For the artist, the Taj Mahal is a symbol so clear it is almost a character: a secular temple to love everlasting. In this series, Fuss reflects upon the haunting humanity of love and heartbreak. In addition to love, the Taj Mahal is a Victorian-era monument to power. Fuss references the world as we have found it, and the times that brought us here: employing a Victorian-era technology to reveal the empire, love, and loss in what was once the empire of Victoria. This exhibition includes a single nude study, also in large format daguerreotype, which makes counterpoint between the artificial and the real in Fuss’s work.
FAIR
Paris Photo 2015
From 12 to 15 November, 2015
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
France
