Artist Talk: Matthew Schreiber

A two-day symposium and concurrent photographic exhibition in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Hurley Gallery that will gather photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of photography, its instability, and its latent potential.

Organized by Deana Lawson, Princeton University’s Dorothy Krauklis '78 Professor of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Jeff Whetstone, Director of the Program in Visual Arts, and James Welling, Lecturer with the Rank of Professor of Visual Arts. Produced by Mary K. O’Connor with Joe Arnold as gallery preparator for both exhibitions.

This is a Princeton Humanities Council Magic Project funded through a David A. Garner '69 Magic Grant and presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts. The symposium is cosponsored by Princeton’s Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics and Council on Science and Technology.

The symposium coincides with the Fall 2024 issue of Aperture magazine, "Arrhythmic Mythic Ra", an issue that refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson and features many of the artists included in Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World.

The symposium will take place on October 10 & 11, 2024, in the Wallace Theater in the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton University campus.

An exhibition will be on view October 1 – December 5 in the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts complex co-curated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine. The 23 artists exhibiting are: David Benjamin Sherry, Jenny Calivas, Sara Cwynar, Seiichi Furuya, Paul Graham, Balarama Heller, Arthur Jafa, Liz Johnston Artur, Deana Lawson, Ken Light, Sally Mann, Louis Mendes, Boris Mikhailov, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Lucy Raven, Stefan Ruiz, Matthew Schreiber, Allan Sekula, Lieko Shiga, Taryn Simon, James Welling, and Jeff Whetstone. Free and open to the public daily 10 am - 8 pm.

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