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Linda Fregni Nagler: Anger Pleasure Fear
GAM presents the first anthological exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to Linda Fregni Nagler, curated by Cecilia Canziani.
The artist employs photography as a means of reflecting on vision, memory, and the materiality of the image, weaving together collecting practices, research, and narrative.
By isolating and preserving fragments of the visible, photographic images recount the history of seeing: they bear witness not only to what they depict, but also to the various ways in which, over time, we have looked at the world.
In photography, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, continuously pursue one another, turning each image into a space for reflection, memory, and imagination.
The exhibition presents works created over more than twenty years, including the large-scale installation The Hidden Mother (2013) and the previously unseen series Vater, dedicated to the Mensur, the ritual dueling tradition of German student fraternities. The exhibition also includes Pour commander 脿 l鈥檃ir, enlargements of images sourced from news photography; the Untitled series, prints from drawings inspired by tools and architectural forms; and Smokes, Clouds, Explosions, drawn from the artist鈥檚 collection of magic lantern slides. Early works are also on view, such as Non voglio uccidere nessuno.
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GAM presents the first anthological exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to Linda Fregni Nagler, curated by Cecilia Canziani.
The artist employs photography as a means of reflecting on vision, memory, and the materiality of the image, weaving together collecting practices, research, and narrative.
By isolating and preserving fragments of the visible, photographic images recount the history of seeing: they bear witness not only to what they depict, but also to the various ways in which, over time, we have looked at the world.
In photography, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, continuously pursue one another, turning each image into a space for reflection, memory, and imagination.
The exhibition presents works created over more than twenty years, including the large-scale installation The Hidden Mother (2013) and the previously unseen series Vater, dedicated to the Mensur, the ritual dueling tradition of German student fraternities. The exhibition also includes Pour commander 脿 l鈥檃ir, enlargements of images sourced from news photography; the Untitled series, prints from drawings inspired by tools and architectural forms; and Smokes, Clouds, Explosions, drawn from the artist鈥檚 collection of magic lantern slides. Early works are also on view, such as Non voglio uccidere nessuno.
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