ExhibitionAugust 28, 2023
Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy. International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York is presenting the group exhibition "Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy" on view through September 11, 2023. Featuring more than 250 works by 16 international artists, the show explores love, desire, intimacy, and relationships in all their most complex and contradictory ways. It shows works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Motoyuki Daifu, Fouad Elkoury, Aikaterini Gegisian, Nan Goldin, René Groebli, Hervé Guibert, Sheree Hovsepian, Clifford Prince King, Leigh Ledare, Lin Zhipeng (No. 223), Sally Mann, RongRong&inri, Collier Schorr, and Karla Hiraldo Voleau.
The group show was conceived as a mixtape of songs gifted to a lover; Love Songs is organized in New York by the curator and writer Sara Raza, formerly of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern, London. This spring 2023 exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, based upon an original idea by Simon Baker, and was curated at MEP by Frédérique Dolivet and Pascal Hoël. The English-language catalog for the exhibition is published by ICP and DAP and available in ICP's shop.
David E. Little, executive director of the International Center of Photography, explained that “ICP will turn over the entirety of our exhibition spaces to powerful, intergenerational stories of love in the exhibition ‘Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy.’ This major exhibition offers a unique viewpoint into how relationships are photographed and presents images of intimacy rarely represented in photographic history with such openness and directness. We look forward to welcoming audiences to explore and connect with ‘Love Songs,’ which is an international collaboration with our friends at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, and curator Sara Raza, who remixed the international show at ICP.”—
Sara Raza is a curator and writer specializing in global art and visual cultures from a post-colonial, post-Soviet perspective. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (Black Dog Press, London 2022). Raza has curated for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Mathaf: Modern Arab Art Museum (Doha, Qatar), and the 55th Venice Biennale, among others. Formerly, she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Curator of Public Programs at Tate Modern, London. Sara holds a BA and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and pursued studies towards her PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in New York City, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and New York University.
The group show was conceived as a mixtape of songs gifted to a lover; Love Songs is organized in New York by the curator and writer Sara Raza, formerly of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern, London. This spring 2023 exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, based upon an original idea by Simon Baker, and was curated at MEP by Frédérique Dolivet and Pascal Hoël. The English-language catalog for the exhibition is published by ICP and DAP and available in ICP's shop.
David E. Little, executive director of the International Center of Photography, explained that “ICP will turn over the entirety of our exhibition spaces to powerful, intergenerational stories of love in the exhibition ‘Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy.’ This major exhibition offers a unique viewpoint into how relationships are photographed and presents images of intimacy rarely represented in photographic history with such openness and directness. We look forward to welcoming audiences to explore and connect with ‘Love Songs,’ which is an international collaboration with our friends at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, and curator Sara Raza, who remixed the international show at ICP.”—
Sara Raza is a curator and writer specializing in global art and visual cultures from a post-colonial, post-Soviet perspective. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (Black Dog Press, London 2022). Raza has curated for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Mathaf: Modern Arab Art Museum (Doha, Qatar), and the 55th Venice Biennale, among others. Formerly, she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Curator of Public Programs at Tate Modern, London. Sara holds a BA and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and pursued studies towards her PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in New York City, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and New York University.
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