Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Saturday, 02.07.2022, 13:30–14:30
Guided Tour and Artist Talk with Leonard Suryajaya
Leonard Suryajaya, Familial, 2016, from the series Bunda, 2015–2016 © Leonard Suryajaya
During a guided tour and talk with the curator of the exhibition, Nadine Wietlisbach, the photographer Leonard Suryajaya will give visitors an insight into his work and practice. For his work series False Idol, which is shown as part of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together, he stages his parents and extended family using symbolically charged props in elaborately arranged environments fitted out with rugs and fabrics. The at times quirky interactions between individual members of the family are at odds with our idea of a conventional family portrait.
Leonard Suryajaya was born in Medan, Indonesia, in 1988 and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied theatre at the California State University and photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This event takes place in English.
Admission: CHF 12.– (for members and reduced CHF 10.–), plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.
Leonard Suryajaya was born in Medan, Indonesia, in 1988 and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied theatre at the California State University and photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This event takes place in English.
Admission: CHF 12.– (for members and reduced CHF 10.–), plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.