Bunny. Talia Chetrit

Madrid, Spain

Seductive, strange, intimate, staged. Talia Chetrit turns photography into a place where truth and performance keep changing roles.

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ArtLovers Tip

Move through the exhibition asking: Who controls the gaze here? Chetrit’s images become powerful when you realize that intimacy is never simple — it can be tender, staged, seductive, uncomfortable, and deeply self-aware all at once.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Contemporary photography moving between portraiture, staged photography, tableaux, still life, and conceptual image-making.

Chetrit holds a key position in contemporary photography for the way she challenges the medium from within, using the camera to question intimacy, control, vulnerability, desire, and representation.

Bunny is Talia Chetrit’s first institutional solo exhibition in Spain. The show brings together works that move playfully between portrait, staged scene, and still life, placing photographs from different periods in dialogue within one visual sequence.

You’re watching:

  • Images where past and present seem to collapse into the same moment
  • Portraits, objects, bodies, and domestic scenes charged with ambiguity
  • Family, friends, parenthood, eroticism, vulnerability, and exhibitionism treated as theatrical material
  • Subjects shown from multiple viewpoints: close and distant, above and below
  • Intimate black-and-white prints alongside large-format color photographs that engage the viewer physically

The result feels raw, seductive, playful, and difficult to pin down. Nothing is simply private, documentary, or staged — everything stays open to negotiation between artist and viewer.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you’re interested in photography that questions how images are made, staged, and consumed.

Because Chetrit doesn’t use photography only to represent life. She uses it to destabilize the relationship between the person photographed, the person photographing, and the person looking.

It matters because Bunny asks one of the most contemporary questions possible: when so much of our intimacy is performed through images, where does truth end and staging begin?

How to experience it

Don’t try to decide too quickly whether an image is “real” or staged

Notice distance: when are you invited close, and when are you kept outside?

Pay attention to scale — small black-and-white works ask for intimacy, while large color works confront your body

Look for the tension between vulnerability and control

Read the sequence as a conversation between past and present images

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