23/05/2026
💥☀️ Open this gorgeous summery day in Paris, these photographic works by Laura Letinsky from her series ‘Who loves sun’, made mostly during Letinsky’s 2023 residency in the South of France at La Maison Dora Maar, the surrealist photographer, painter, and poet, who was also the romantic partner of Picasso.
Inspired by the light of Provence in contrast to the dark weather of her home base in Chicago, Letinsky combined natural and artificial light to frame her subjects that include borrowed objects - ceramics, glassware - from La Maison Dora Maar as well as detritus left behind from other artists-in-residence, flowers and weeds growing nearby.
Yet, her photographs are not necessarily about what objects appear within them but rather about the medium of photography itself. Letinsky explains, “I make pictures of very ordinary things in a way that destabilizes and questions the camera’s authority while also indulging in its sexiness, solicitating a visual pleasure that is tethered to other senses.” Letinsky complicates the singular point of view of the camera by building frames within frames and precariously positioning objects in relation to one another. In reference to her innovative picture spaces, Letinsky notes, “Cezanne’s still lifes described objects from multiple perspectives so as to refer to perception being a constantly shifting process. I try to harness this, to articulate that we’ve two eyes and are ambulant living beings.” Dissonance and interruption are components of her language in which objects’ perspectival positions are abstracted and gravity is elided. By working with objects associated with the home, she makes images that evoke tenderness and project an uneasy and fragile beauty.
Laura Letinsky - A pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information
Exhibition of photographs accompanied by a curated selection of porcelain designs by Tsé & Tsé associées
Until 04/07/2026
.associees
artists
