Linda Fregni Nagler. Angler Pleasure Fear

GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin presents the first anthological exhibition in an Italian institution to be devoted to Linda Fregni Nagler (Stockholm, 1976) curated by Cecilia Canziani.

The artist uses the photographic medium, interweaving research, collecting activities and an in-depth investigation of the material nature of the image.

In isolating and conserving fragments of the visible, the photographic images tell the story of the gaze: they offer evidence not only of what they show, but also of the different ways in which we have observed the world over time.

In photography, presence and absence, visible and invisible pursue each other, making each image a place of reflection, memory and imagination. The exhibition, built around works realized over the course of over twenty years, brings together different cycles in a single story, establishing a dialogue between works that are distant in time yet capable, through the material nature of the photograph, of rendering a poetic fresco of the 20th century: a long night illuminated by brief flashes of enchantment and beauty that accompanies us to our own time.