Since emerging in the mid 1990s, the New York-based artist Piotr Uklański (born Poland, 1968) has worked with a wide variety of materials, from eye-popping collages made with pencil shavings and motley assemblages of fibre and crockery to paintings made with tie-dye or globs of brightly coloured resin. This exhibition, the first to survey Uklański’s photography, locates his work with the camera at the centre of his artistic practice. Revelling in moribund or marginal artistic languages from a position at once ironic and sincere, the artist simultaneously subverts and pays homage to defunct modes of expression.
Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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