Kurgan’s Photographs 1924 – 2005 at the goodman gallery, features the work she is mostly known for: images of awkward, young adults/children, that border on the sexual. She juxtaposes these images, which look almost like banal prom photos, with some of her own family portraits, predating her own time on this earth.
Tho the images are rich, the show doesn’t really require much time spent with it; you kind of “get” what she is alluding to within a few moments. After that, you can admire the images for their individual and quirky beauty, or go think on them at home. It’s an interesting and layered discourse, but like Duchamp’s Fountain, we don’t actually need to pee in the urinal in order to talk about it….
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