Candida Höfer @ Sean Kelly Gallery

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Candida Höfer @ Sean Kelly Gallery

November 8th, 2024 by fstop

Candida Höfer, Teatro Comunale di Carpi IV 2011. C-print paper: 70 7/8 x 83 5/8 inches (180 x 212.4 cm) framed: 72 1/2 x 85 1/4 x 2 inches (184.2 x 216.5 x 5.1 cm) (CH-07954.2). Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery

Candida Höfer: Europa / America
November 16, 2024 – January 11, 2025

“Europa / America is Candida Höfer’s first solo exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery, curated by renowned architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of the Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee. Johnston Marklee’s curation (recently honored with the Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence) explores the intersection of architecture, photography, and cultural history through Höfer (recently awarded the 2024 Käthe Kollwitz Prize) oeuvre.

Europa / America builds upon Höfer’s 2023 exhibition at Sean Kelly, New York, Heaven on Earth, curated by architect Toshiko Mori. While Heaven on Earth probed the vertical relationship between architecture and its transcendent, otherworldly connotations, here, Johnston and Lee have established a linear dialogue. The works on view span from West to East, with the front half of the gallery featuring North American interiors, and the back half consisting of European locations. The geographic dichotomy and shift mirrors Höfer’s journey in documenting North American spaces, after years of focusing on her native Europe. Despite this dichotomy, the photographs are united by Höfer’s distinct attention to symmetry, lighting, and an evocation of both vastness and intimacy, transforming each location into its own, complex world. ”

Sean Kelly
Los Angeles

Location: California, Los Angeles Type: Exhibition

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