
“ENCORE: REENACTMENT IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY”
Curated by Arpad Kovacs
In postmodernist critical writings of the 1980s, the catchphrase staged photography was sometimes used to describe the works of artists such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall, who deployed photography to record invented portraits or fictional scenarios, as opposed to depicting “real life.” This exhibition juxtaposes more than forty works created between 1985 and 2008 by seven practitioners in the genre of photographic simulation: Eileen Cowin, Christina Fernandez, Samuel Fosso, Yasumasa Morimura, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Gillian Wearing, and Qiu Zhijie. From widely different