Ilse Bing, Kati Horna, and Dora Maar @ HUXLEY-PARLOUR

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Ilse Bing, Kati Horna, and Dora Maar @ HUXLEY-PARLOUR

July 4th, 2025 by fstop

Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait with Leica Camera, Paris, 1931

Ilse Bing, Kati Horna, and Dora Maar: Pathfinders
18 July – 13 September 2025

“Though shaped by different trajectories, these three artists shared an acute sensitivity to modern life: its velocity, its fragmentation, and its dislocations. Working in the shadow of political upheaval, each turned their camera toward the street, the surreal, and the overlooked, forging a new visual language for the Modern age.

Though each artist navigated her own distinct practice, seen together, these three singular takes on Modernism chart a path of reinvention. Their work spanned decades and continents, moving from Surrealist inflected street photography to experimentation with photomontage, solarisation and other darkroom techniques. Pathfinders brings three oeuvres into dialogue, illuminating how each shaped photography as a mode of modern seeing. Their artistic trajectories echo those of countless other creatives displaced by war and authoritarianism, figures whose lives were rerouted by history and whose visions bear the imprint of exile. Together, Bing, Horna, and Maar forged new routes shaped by resistance, reinvention, and the imagination.”

HUXLEY-PARLOUR
45 Maddox Street
London
W1S 2PE

Location: England, London, United Kingdom Type: Black and White, Exhibition

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