Modena . 1974
Keenly aware of a photograph’s ability to play with our perception of things we think we know, the work in the exhibition highlights Ghirri’s intentional yet subtle toying with found imagery. In Ghirri’s work, this can take the form of reflections, a glimpse of a vista through a fence, or uncanny advertising. In one work, a woman’s heavily made-up eyes stare out of a shop window. In another, what appears to be an Old Master painting has been transformed into a jigsaw puzzle.
Matthew Marks
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