Leigh Ledare et al.

Just like his mentor Larry Clarck, Leigh Ledare deals with rather sensitive topics.\n\nAfter he made headlines with Pretend You’re Actually Alive, a work based on the documentation of his mother’s extroverted sexuality, he explores in this new project a couple’s intimacy, challenged by a love triangle.\n\nLedare uses photography, archival material, and text to explore human agency, social relationships, taboos and the photographic in equal turns.\n\nFormally trained in photography, he has, in a relatively short time, developed a body of work that is coherent, complex, biting in its intelligence, and decidedly provocative. His resulting images are often sumptuous, saturated with colour, and surprisingly beautiful.\n\nBut they also, and importantly, disconcert us, they make us uncomfortable, and, in the process, they raise questions about the functioning of the image and the construction of subjectivity in contemporary culture.