Five Strange Family Albums

Alessandra Sanguinetti/ Emmet Gowin/ Erik Kessels/ Ralph Eugene Meatyard/ Sadie Benning
January 14 - April 17, 2011
  •  Alessandra Sanguinetti, Camila, 1999, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

  • Nicholas Calcott

  • Alessandra Sanguinetti, Immaculate conception, 1999, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York© Collection of Emmet and Edith Gowin, Ruth and Edith, 1966, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery

  • Nicholas Calcott

  • Collection of Emmet and Edith Gowin, Nancy, Danville, Virginia, 1967, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery

  • Nicholas Calcott

  • Collection of Emmet and Edith Gowin, Ruth and Edith, 1966, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery

  • Nicholas Calcott

  • Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery

  • Nicholas Calcott

  • My sister, 2003

    Eric Kessels

  • Sadie Benning, Courtesy of Video Data Bank

  • Nicholas Calcott

Five artists embark on ambigous, precarious explorations of their family history.

Five narratives of the wonderful yet painful rites of adolesence, the couple and the family.

Five fragile balancing acts, between spontaneity and masquerade, the unspoken and revelation, intimacy and claustrophobia.

Five familiar, innocents worlds marked by strangeness.

Five scenes in which bodies and places interact silently.

Five representations of time, haunted by spectres of loss or change.

Five doors thrown and immediately closed.

Five strange family albums.

Exhibited artists

Alessandra Sanguinetti
Emmet Gowin
Erik Kessels
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Sadie Benning

 With the support of the Pace/MacGill gallery (New York), the Fraenkel gallery (San Francisco), the Yossi Milo gallery (New York) and the Flux Laboratory (Genève).

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