PJ Gallery presents Joël-Peter Witkin.
“Madonnas” makes us feel the light of bruised and sometimes wounded bodies of women photographed as deities, in theatrical scenography, becoming icons of art and revered women.
The sublimated female nudity sees the day in black and white. The brightness of the radiant epidermis, embellished with benevolent reflections, reveals luminous divinities, whose presence floods us. Under the dark shades of the masked women wrapped in mysterious nights, the poetic melancholy of the presence of death emerges.
Joel-Peter Witkin confronts us with the reality of bodies, with our fears and our immemorial anxieties, with our fragility, our weaknesses and even our own defects.
Prudence, oh, prudence…
Born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico (ISA
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