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Talia Chetrit

Info: Sies + Höke is pleased to present New York-based photographer Talia Chetrit’s (*1982) sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. »I was totally immersed in the premise, once I realized that the young female protagonist was encountering her own mother at her current age, as if they were twins, and riveted to see how the magically impossible idea would play out. I feel like it’s accurate to say that she uses the medium to show reality as it is, full of depth, complexity, mutually contradictory moments and glitches in temporality. I sense that what people call sci-fi are the moments pushed past our defenses into the questions many are secretly wondering: How would it be to play with your mom if she was your age? What would you do for fun? If you told her you were her daughter from the future, how would she respond? Would it be creepy or nice to meet your recently deceased grandmother again, but suddenly much younger, and get to do one last crossword together? Why did your mom mention that she made a fort in the woods before having that operation?« (…) – Excerpted from Internal Drama by Sara Magenheimer