Tarrah Krajnak – Shadowings. A Catalogue of Attitudes for Estranged Daughters

Blurring the line

Shadowings. A Catalogue of Attitudes for Estranged Daughters is the first museum solo exhibition of the Peruvian-American artist Tarrah Krajnak (1979, Lima, Peru). The exhibition brings together her most important bodies of work spanning twenty years, including the series Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes which launched her international breakthrough. This rich variety of series on display at the Huis Marseille exhibition exemplifies Krajnak’s overall conceptual approach to photography: she uses the camera less as a lens through which one documents the world and more as a research tool, a means for experimentation and image making that moves between the studio, fieldwork, archival intervention, and analog darkroom as sites for production. Krajnak’s lens is often turned on other photographs, employing appropriation, as well as the artist herself: strategies that bend time and blur the line between staged self-portraiture and performance, self and other, fact and fiction.