From March 11 to April 7, in collaboration with MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas (running from March 19 to 22, 2026, at Superstudiopiù in Milan) and as part of Circuito Off - MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, 10·Corso·Como Gallery presents The New American West: Photography in Conversation, an examination of how the American West has been constructed, mythologised, and reimagined through photography across nearly a century.

Co-curated by Alessio de’Navasques, Howard Greenberg, and Carrie Scott, the exhibition foregrounds photography as both document and projection. Contemporary works by Maryam Eisler and Alexei Riboud are placed in direct dialogue with photographs by Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus, Esther Bubley, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Adams, Joel Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Wright Morris, Minor White, Allen Ginsberg, Wim Wenders and many others. Together, they trace the West from the early 20th century to today—revealing not a single narrative, but a layered, evolving idea shaped by ambition, displacement, beauty, and contradiction.

The contemporary perspective of Eisler and Riboud reactivates historical works from the Greenberg archive, demonstrating how even today the dimension of the West is not only a physical place, but also a space of thought, reflection, and boundary. Historic works—ranging from Strand’s stark modernism and Weston’s sculptural landscapes to Bubley’s social observations and Arbus’s unrelenting portraits—are not treated as nostalgic artefacts, but as living images that continue to inform how the West is imagined today. At the heart of the project remains the 2024 journey undertaken by Eisler and Riboud across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.

The show quietly acknowledges that our understanding of America—and of the ideals once projected onto the West—is shifting in real time. Without resorting to political declaration, The New American West reflects on what the West once promised: freedom, opportunity, reinvention—ideals that were often built on exclusion and hardship. Photography becomes the medium through which those tensions are preserved, examined, and re-seen.

The New American West
Curated by Alessio de’ Navasques, Howard Greenberg and Carrie Scott
10 Corso Como Gallery
11.3 – 3.4.2026
Every day: 10.30am – 7.30pm
Free admission