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Exterior de la galeria Gagosian, a West 24th Street, al barri de Chelsea, Nova York

Gagosian · Chelsea

Deana Lawson

Acabada10 de setembre del 2026 – 24 d’octubre del 2026·Gratis

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Deana Lawson's first solo exhibition with the gallery, at 541 West 24th Street: mirror-framed photographs and holograms from her Edge Control series, which reimagines beauty-supply-store surveillance imagery.

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The pictures started life taped to beauty-supply-store windows: grainy CCTV stills of alleged shoplifters, posted as a warning to other customers. Lawson blows them up to life size and frames each in black mirror, so you walk in and find your own reflection inside the frame, looking at the person on the wall.

The title is a gel for laying down baby hairs, one of the stores' most-stolen products. Lawson keeps the stills low-resolution, and some faces are masked or too blurred to read. Two holograms of Black women stand in the middle of the room, their bodies shifting as you move. Opposite the stills hang her familiar staged portraits of Black men and women at home, casually dressed or not dressed at all.

In the Guardian, Morgan Jerkins said the show "succeeds at capturing the extreme vulnerability" of people watched without knowing it. It is one room at 541 West 24th Street, free, Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 6pm, until 24 October.

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  • The mirror-framed surveillance stills

    Life-size, low-resolution shoplifter photos in luminous black mirror frames, so your own reflection sits in the picture with them.

  • The two holograms

    In the middle of the room, two holograms of Black women whose bodies shift depending on where you stand.

  • The portrait wall

    Opposite the stills, Lawson's staged portraits in private rooms, including a man with a busted eye posing with others in a living room.

Ideal per a

  • Una hora o menys
  • Cultura barata
  • Dies de pluja

Amb infants

Entry is free. The portrait wall includes nude figures, so decide for yourself about younger children.

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