CAMERA in Turin will host Sandy Skoglund's first anthological exhibition: a journey through her hybrid visions

The first anthological exhibition dedicated to the artistic production of Sandy Skoglund (1946) will open to the public on January 24, 2019 in the exhibition spaces of CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin.

"Sandy Skoglund. Hybrid Visions," this is the title of the exhibition, will present the U.S. photographer from her beginnings in the early 1970s to her still unpublished work"Winter," on which she worked for more than a decade. The centerpiece of the anthology will in fact be a world premiere of the latter with some sculptures created for the installation from which the photograph was taken.

The exhibition itinerary will unfold through his works, about thirty and mostly of large format: it will begin with the first photographic series of the mid-1970s, where domestic interiors and their transformations into places between the comic and the disturbing already appear; it will continue with the large compositions of the early 1980s, such as"Radioactive cats" (1980) and"Revenge of the goldfish" (1981), in which familiar environments are revisited in a surreal and alienating way, inhabited by green cats and flying fish. On this subject, Sandy Skoglund said, “I think there is a contrast between the fantasy aspect-animals are like cartoons or fantasies-and reality. Since we, as humans, consider ourselves the main form of consciousness existing in nature, I chose to populate my images with animals to introduce this alternative consciousness into our experience.”

His shots are constructions of a set, so his works are simultaneously installations, sculptures and photographs. In fact, along the exhibition you will notice how some sculptures refer back to the photographs and vice versa.

Among the most famous works on display are the twenty shots from the series "True Fiction Two,“ made between 1986 and 2005, the compositions of ”Fox Games“ (1989) and ”The Green House" (1990), and"Fresh Hybrid“ (2008). Also featured will be the ballet of ”Shimmering Madness“ (1998), where statues and human figures share the same space in a choreographed arrangement, and the visionary picnic of ”Raining Popcorn" (2001).

The exhibition will be on view until March 23, 2019, is curated by Germano Celant and will be realized in collaboration with Paci Contemporary Gallery in Brescia.

For info: www.camera.to

Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 6 euros for under 26 and over 70. Free for children up to 12 years old

Image: Sandy Skoglund, Revenge of the goldfish (1981) Courtesy: Paci Contemporary Gallery, Brescia.

CAMERA in Turin will host Sandy Skoglund's first anthological exhibition: a journey through her hybrid visions

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