VERA LUTTER – FRAGMENTS OF TIME PAST
2022-03-14In response to an editorial commission—her first—from the New York Times Magazine, Lutter visited the Acropolis and Plato’s Academy in Athens, and the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounio in August 2021, braving the extreme heat and wildfires that threatened Greece that summer. Given the lengthy exposure times of her photographs, individuals passing through the sites have left no visible traces in the images, while the blurring of windswept trees contrasts with the unchanging solidity of the architecture. Employing the durational aspects of her medium—as opposed to the theoretical instantaneity of “the decisive moment”—and eschewing darkroom manipulation or digital alteration, Lutter engages with the fundamentals of photography.
Opposite – Temple of Athena, Acropolis: August 25, 2021, 2021
Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022
Gagosian
22 Anapiron Polemou Street
11521 Athens
Greece
