Elle Pérez:
Intimacies
EXHIBITION“Photography is an act of love.” This statement by photographer and critic Hervé Guibert is well illustrated in the subtle but striking work of the Bronx-born Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez. Pérez has become known for photographs that capture with a unique sense of ease the intimacy between friends, lovers, bodies, and nature—as well as the intimate relationship between photographer and subject. Pérez works with the Muay Thai, queer, and artist communities that are part of their daily life. Though their photographs are often mistaken for documentary images, Pérez collaborates with their subjects, using the deep trust that exists to produce images that exude openness and vulnerability. Connection and fluidity are central themes within their practice, the networks of associations that exist between their varied subjects—bodies of water, moments of human touch—as much a part of the meaning as the individual works.
ROLE
Graphic Design
FIELDExhibition
YEAR2023
LOCATIONMASS MoCA
DELIVERABLESIdentity, Wall Text, Gallery Guide
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