On the occasion of Milan’s Women Fashion Week, the programme dedicated to visual arts restarts with the exhibition of the American artist Talia Chetrit.

From 18 September, the Gallery opens to the public with the most comprehensive exhibition to date showcasing the work of Chetrit.

The show for 10 Corso Como, curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Anna Castelli, brings together works from 1994 to 2023, creating a dialogue between images that encapsulate different moments in both her artistic career and her private life. Self-portraits, family scenes, still lifes, street photography; no subject is excluded from Chetrit’s critical investigation into the current validity of the various genres of photography. These images instill a candid feeling of fragility and a confrontational sense of breaking taboos , with a specific focus on the themes of sexuality, relationships and female self-representation.

Through her straightforward yet nuanced use of the camera, Chetrit produces images that are at once elaborately conceived, lyrical, and provocative. Fusing emotional intensity with a specific approach to composition, her pictures can be understood as an exercise in what it means to look and what it feels like to pose; an exploration of the formal implications of the act of framing and the psychological dynamics of becoming the subject of an image.

After the solo show dedicated to Roe Ethridge last February, this exhibition continues a reflection on how the languages of art and photography, in dialogue with fashion, allow us to observe the contradictions of our times, questioning what beauty, the seductions of commerce and the rules of representation are.