Louise Lawler: Distorted for the Times

Galerie Greta Meert is pleased to present two distinct exhibitions at the occasion of Louise Lawler’s fifth presentation with the gallery.

Distorted For The Times refers to a methodology that Lawler has been applying to her own photographs over the years. Revisiting earlier works to reframe or distort them, she asserts that her pictures, not unlike the artworks she photographs, are always restaged in the present. For this exhibition, she returned to her 2004 photograph Andy in L.A, which shows a self-portrait by Andy Warhol hanging in a private collection in Los Angeles. She then created four variations of this image by applying digital distortion to it, and in two cases, by stretching the ratio and dimensions of the image in order to physically adjust it to fit the walls of the gallery’s ground floor space. Through these two procedures Louise Lawler draws attention to the provisional nature of art and the arbitrary forces that shape the life of pictures within and beyond the art world.