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october 15, 2021 - Marian Goodman Gallery

Francesca Woodman: Alternate Stories - 2 november – 23 december 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to announce #francescawoodman: Alternate Stories, a solo presentation of vintage photographs by #francescawoodman, many of which have never been seen. The exhibition will be on view from Tuesday, 2 November through Thursday, 23 December 2021.

This presentation will be a departure from past exhibitions of the artist’s work, drawing on newly available vintage prints and archival material provided by the Woodman Family Foundation which offer a fresh glimpse into the varied thought processes, interests, and influences that motivated Woodman’s picture-making. The presentation will move in and beyond key arcs of the artist’s creative life and will be clustered thematically to highlight special groupings of works in relational contexts which have heretofore not been seen.

A fully illustrated catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition, featuring archival materials and text by critic and novelist Chris Kraus. Her essay, “Impure Alchemy,” examines the artist’s life via her work and explores the technical means and literary strategies that animate her pictures.

Francesca Woodman’s photographs are the result of an active mind at work. The exhibition highlights the deliberate construction of her images, a dialogue with art history, and her deep investment in the particularities of her medium. She both explored and harnessed the possibilities of photography through carefully conceived formal pursuits and remained fascinated by the magical properties of silver gelatin printing. Kraus’ essay addresses the artist as the architect of her own images, “constructing a kind of improvisational theater built around questions of space and time.” As Woodman herself wrote to the Italian editor Alberto Piovani, who was preparing a 1979 feature on her work for Progresso Fotografico, "I try to be intuitive, when I am actually taking the pictures I really only think about composition, not about content.“

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