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Limits of control

Jenia Fridlyand

Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse
June 5 - September 20
Every day except Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Opening on friday June 5

Curator : Nigel Baldacchino

First exhibition in France of the American photographer Jenia Fridlyand, Limits of control is a selection of images from the resulting body of work, made in Cuba from 2017 to 2019. An uncanny connection with otherwise unfamiliar culture and landscape was catalyzed by Fridlyand’s childhood in the Soviet Union in the years just prior to Perestroika – a similarly contingent and crumbling terrain. Grounded by that connection and a photographic practice rooted in the American tradition, Fridlyand engaged with the inherently aleatory environment of the island, allowing chance to play a requisite role in the making of the photographs.

Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Fridlyand’s artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and the trade edition (TIS Books) is now in its 3rd printing. Her subsequent body of work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Fototeca de Cuba in Havana in 2023. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam.

Jenia Fridlyand, Limits of control, 2017-2019