MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

DEANA LAWSON

2021.07.10

Photography DEANA LAWSON
by MUSE

The Hugo Boss Prize 2020 winner Deana Lawson draws on the legacies of historical portraiture, documentary photography, and the family album, but transcends these traditions, constructing scenes that merge lived experience with imagined narratives.

Her photographs and films result from collaborations with strangers whom the artist encounters by chance or deliberately seeks out. These individuals are often depicted within richly textured domestic settings in which the details of décor, lighting, and pose are precisely choreographed. The photographer creates images that are rooted in a moment from the tangible world, but ultimately exist in the shimmering in-between space of dreams, memories, and spiritual communion, where the every day is transfigured into the uncanny and the magnificent.

In this exhibition, large-scale photographs, are arrayed in a dense constellation that surrounds a spectral rendering of a torus—a three-dimensional shape formed by a circle rotated around a central axis. As such, the installation draws on the thermodynamic concept of centropy, a term that describes how the electrification of matter leads to regeneration and harmonious order. The same impulse of renewal through creative energy is central to Lawson’s vision, in which her subjects are figured as ineffably splendid, occupying a world that they command absolutely.

the simultaneity of life

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EXHIBITION

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CINEMA

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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SPRÜTH MAGERS

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