JOKE
Published on 1. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-913620-72-1 (ISBN)
Description
The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In 'JOKE', Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lifes, selections from the artist's teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.Referencing a wide range of photographic tropes and traditions, Chetrit studies the power dynamics between photographer and subject as they spar and collude. 'JOKE' deals in high humour and deadly seriousness, plunging us into a world in which social roles are inverted, norms are examined, judgements of taste and value are suspended, and everything coalesces, dead and alive, true and false, sincere and affected.
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Person
Talia Chetrit (b. 1982, Washington, DC) is an artist living and working in New York. Her photographic and video work explores questions of performance, identity, artifice, and sexuality, oscillating between the realms of personal and private, planned and candid. Chetrit has had recent solo exhibitions at Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2021); Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2021); Sies + Hoeke, Dusseldorf (2019); MAXXI, Rome (2018); Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); as well as numerous group exhibitions worldwide. Chetrit's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sculpture Center, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. Her last book, Showcaller (2019), was received with critical acclaim and is now sold out.