Lala Rukh II: The importance of staying quiet

The first part of this series, Lala Rukh I, presented a selection of photographs from the artist’s archives during her years at the University of Chicago (1974-76). Its speculative framework helped us to stage the evolution of Lala’s photographic sensibility, as she refined her sense of composition, framing, and perception. This second exhibition of The importance of staying quiet completes the two-part observational inquiry into Lala Rukh’s photographic practice, showing how it moved toward abstraction. The exhibition builds parallels across different bodies of work, tracing how Lala both used and broke down photographic technique, the visual, and the conceptual into photo-documentation, unique photo works, video, and drawing.

To 17 January.

Above: Lala Rukh, Gadani, 2001, 07.00 – 19.00 (video still, 2001)