MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
All in Interview
Musée would like to congratulate Nan Goldin on her recent Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock!
The struggles around women’s reproductive rights have been ongoing and will continue to proceed in fits and starts.
“I think that when everything is too placid and quiet in the picture, I think it can get a bit mundane and boring.”
The experience for them was about control, specifically, not having it.
One of the things that I've always thought about photography is it's a form of time travel.
The grace of aging. The grace of curves. The grace of being secure and being themselves.
Femininity has long been falsely equated with weakness, self-pleasure with the taboo, and nudes with the male gaze. In her recent nude exhibition, “Night Sessions”, Abbey Drucker corrodes these notions.
Everything I do comes from cultivating intuition and then not judging what I see.
“It was a slow process to get to understand that everything that I was doing actually was political.”
“The images of the dancers’ shadows, turned into a negative, and then flipped upside down, beautifully exemplifies a kind of rich photographic language yet to be explored.”
"There is such a thing as photography from different cultural awarenesses. It makes photography different... I think that also underlies why we want to show different kinds of photography—to open up what our visitors see and present all different kinds of expression."
A conversation with Miles Aldridge in regards to his retrospective with Fotografiska New York, Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn. Photographs 1999-2020.
“The selection process for the films was a mixture of the mood that they evoked and how the films, even though they were made prior to the pandemic, seemed to draw on emotional and social states, broadly, that people are thinking about now.”
“After rereading all of the post-colonial theory that I studied in school, I thought about how it related to my own experience and the misunderstanding of how appropriation works. I like to think that this “re-collage” aesthetic that runs through a lot of black art has to do with the idea that culture is not static.”
Shot outdoors on the property of their Litchfield County estate, The Garden is a modern fairy tale woven together by Heck’s photographs and poetry he wrote following his mother’s passing.
