EXHIBITION

Laura Letinsky | Still Life Photographs 1997 - 2012

University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 02/04/2016 - 04/01/2016

313 ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

ABOUT

For more than fifteen years, APT artist Laura Letinsky has explored the possibilities of still life photography. The generally subdued colors of her work lend it an air of lightness and tranquility that is often at odds with the moldering produce and mass-produced remnants of daily life she orchestrates in her photographs. On close inspection, playful manipulations of balance, space, and scale reveal both her curiosity about human perception and her rigorous search for meaningful form.

While Letinsky’s earlier photographs evoke feelings of melancholy—often awakening a sense of absence or an awareness of time that has just passed—her recent work has focused on elaborate paper constructions that produce complex spatial and perceptual puzzles when photographed. Intrigued by the shifting relationship between ideas and their corresponding representations in visual art, she uses the time-honored genre of still life both to explore the way we see and to challenge our understanding of what we observe.

 

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Laura Letinsky

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