Museum of Contemporary Photography

On view

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brings together twelve international artists, uniting across communities to share the ways they encounter and understand love. These artists explore dynamics within romantic partnership, sensual eroticism, family structures, social utopia, and life and death. They observe and declare circumstances of love that serve various intentions.

The projects on view in LOVE range from an expressive courtship dance enacted by two people learning how to meaningfully connect despite barriers of distance, to an embodied portrayal of feeling one’s own sensuality and pleasure. From an adult son’s photo collaboration with his nonagenarian father during his artist mother’s last weeks of life, to the love and pride held within queer parenting.

Themes of visibility and adoration recur as concepts embraced by many of the LOVE photographers, as they use portraiture and self-portraiture to affirm many different types of bodies as divinely worthy of enjoying gentle care and affection. The exhibition presents love as a universal value of respect and care for all humans.

LOVE: Still Not the Lesser features artists Alia Ali, Alicia Bruce, Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Jorge Ariel Escobar, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Tom Merilion, Salma Abedin Prithi, Modou Dieng Yacine, and Yuge Zhou.

Love is a right of existence.

Led by Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator

Opening August 17, closing December 22.

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https://www.mocp.org/exhibition/love-still-not-the-lesser/

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Alia Ali www.alia-ali.com/

IG: @studio.alia.ali

Alicia Bruce https://aliciabruce.co.uk/

IG: @aliciabrucephoto

Jorian Charlton https://joriancharlton.com/

IG: @jjjorian