Talia Chetrit’s upcoming solo shows will be taking place in MAXXI, Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome. It is a national museum that consists of contemporary art and architecture. Another ongoing show Cologne, Germany had begun on 16th February and will come to an end on 25th March. This is happening at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, an art museum.
At the Armory Show of 2018, the Sies + Höke, a Germany-based contemporary art gallery placed a number of Chetrit’s works on display. The inkjet print pieces entitled Self-portrait (all fours), 2017 and Red Eyes, 1994/2017 were two of the most remarkable pieces at the show. The original photos that these prints were developed from are photographs that were captured by Chetrit herself, along with several of her friends. It was back in the 1990s when she was still just a teenage girl. These photos mark the initialization of her feminist adventure into image-making, self-representation and so forth.
Talia Chetrit focuses her projects on the search for deeply-veiled elements behind the structure and utilization of a photography. As a rule, she exploits the matter of obscuration, separation and distortion in a way that the person in the print is no longer identifiable. In this way, her work is conceptualized and abstracted. Aside from that, Chetrit often utilizes a black and white color scheme. In addition, she exploits the orientations of these prints and switches the horizontal and the vertical. On top of that, she also transposes the negative and positive space in order to form more unorthodox pieces. Many art critics have praised her nonconformist feminist mentality and methods. Time and time again, they have mentioned other feminist contemporary artists like Francesca Woodman and Cindy Sherman, as a comparison.
She is an American inspirational contemporary art photographer. Born in the year of 1982, she was originally from the state of Washington D.C.. She received her Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. She won the Fred J. Foster Fellowship Award within the same year. Following that, she received a Graduate Fellowship from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she completed the pursued and attained her Master’s in Fine Arts. Since then, Chetrit has shifted location and is now working and living in New York.
Talia Chetrit has had solo art exhibitions as well as collaborations with other artists under different galleries. Several more of her exhibition highlights include the Art Basel in Miami Beach last year, under Sies + Höke, the same gallery as in the Armory Show as well as the Art Düsseldorf 2017. Her pieces have been part of the Armory Show since 2014. All in all, Chetrit has had more solo shows than collaborations. This could be attributable to her unconventional approaches in the making of her art pieces. Her first exhibition in New York was under the gallery, Plane Space. The piece entitled Items May Have Shifted was on display in 2005.
The collection “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography”, curated by Lumi Tan and Jon Feinstein in 2008 showcased her work in 3rd Ward Brooklyn. Countries across the world ranging from China to Italy have featured her pieces as a group show as well as solo shows. In 2004, she was part of the 4th annual International Photography Exhibition curated by Barbara Degenevieve. This exhibition was located in the town of Pingyao in China. In addition, she presented solo at the Kaufmann Repetto gallery in Milan, Italy in 2011. In the following year, the Sies + Höke gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany showcased one of her pieces called Bodies in Trouble.
Most of her work contains a personal narrative that lies beneath the surface of her projects. Psychological reasonings are frequently associated with these projects. In another collection, Chetrit once again salvaged her old photos. Here, she uses the very first rolls of film that she had used. These are photos her own family from the 1990s. Nonetheless, most of her pieces make passing references on the subject of sexuality and the human body.
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