Closer

Closer

30 Mar 2021 - 08 May 2021

In an age of democratization of imaging technology, we are all at once photographer and subject. This is ever more so during a global pandemic endured with practices of social distancing, quarantine and isolation. On closeness, Robert Capa famously said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you didn’t get close enough.” The insistence on proximity is nonetheless qualified by “enough”, an intuitive call on the material space, relational dynamic and affective state of the situation. Centred around the play of distance, Closer is a group exhibition featuring nine living and late artists who work with an expanded field of portrait photography in different eras. Artists critically mediate their physical and psychological distance with subjects and sitters. For distance, now more than ever, is a gesture of care.

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Pixy Liao
Photographer and Her Muse
Pixy Liao
Door Stopper
Pixy Liao
Hug by the Pond
Pixy Liao
Together We Rise
Daido Moriyama
Japan, A Photo Theater
Daido Moriyama
Japan, A Photo Theatre
Daido Moriyama
Untitled (or Seperation, 1970)
Daido Moriyama
Untitled
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