Award-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos unveils a new facet of his artistic vision with ‘Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs,’ his debut exhibition of still photography, in collaboration with MACK. Celebrated for his ambitious world-building and absurdist explorations in cinema, Lanthimos now offers a fresh perspective on his creative practice.
Scheduled to open on Saturday, March 29 at the Webber Gallery in Los Angeles, the exhibition presents photographs from Lanthimos’ two recent books: i shall sing these songs beautifully (MACK, 2024), made during the filming of his latest feature Kinds of Kindness (2024), featuring cast members Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Mamoudou Athie and more together with works from Dear God, the Parthenon is Still Broken (Void, 2024), shot during the making of Poor Things (2023).
Lanthimos’s stills, imbued with unsettling atmospheres and eerie tensions, are set against a diverse backdrop of authentic locations in New Orleans and Budapest alongside meticulously recreated cities and interior sets representing London, Lisbon, Alexandria, and Paris.
The bodies of his subjects appear at discrete and haunting intervals with an intense physicality, limbs often splayed and faces turned away. In I shall sing these songs beautifully, his cast and film sets are utilised subtly to elaborate an entirely new narrative. The debris of the film set—scaffolding, lighting rigs, and a coffee cup—appear on the periphery of the images in Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken, collapsing distinctions between a fictional world and reality.
The exhibition will run from 29 March to 24 May 2025 at the Webber Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Yorgos Lanthimos ‘Photographs’ Exhibition
Image Credit: Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024. Courtesy Yorgos Lanthimos / MACK Yorgos Lanthimos ‘Photographs’
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Yorgos Lanthimos ‘Photographs’ Exhibition
Image Credit: Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024. Courtesy Yorgos Lanthimos / MACK Yorgos Lanthimos ‘Photographs’
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