A new group exhibition at the ICP in New York explores the notion of intimacy in photography. Here, curator Sara Raza talks about how “sexual intimacy can be embedded in metaphor and simile”
. Even with these iconic photographers, Raza hoped to show something unexpected. “It was really important to emancipate some of the artists,” she says.
“Araki, for example, is best known for his bondage images. The work we have selected is a very personal, sentimental series of his wife on their honeymoon, her tragic illness after being diagnosed with cancer, and eventual passing.” The exhibition also explores the role of multiples within the intimate relationship. Leigh Ledare and Karla Hiraldo Voleau’s work addresses triangulation in relationships, presenting a “third protagonist” and widening out from a heteronormative idea of pairing. “It was interesting to bring in the more complicated elements as it’s not just the Summer of Love,” says Raza. “It’s a more complex idea.”Co., LtdFouad Elkoury’s images also challenge the viewer’s expectations of connection.
“We don’t often imagine that people have real lives through war,” says Raza. “Life goes on, relationships start and end. It’s important to think of this personal and political aspect running in tandem.”In communities in which displays of affection are private, symbolism and coding are often employed. “The background colours in Aikaterini Gegisian’s images are taken from Persian and Indian miniatures where there were a lot of symbolic references to colour and certain codings,” says Raza.
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