Organized by the MFA Houston in association with NOMA, Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds elevates the current role of the negative from a nearly invisible part of the photography process to the chief object of our attention. Vera Lutter’s photographs are one-of-a-kind negative prints made inside a room-sized pinhole camera with exposures that range from hours to days. Finely detailed and mesmerizing images, Lutter’s photographs present a kind of parallel universe to the one we know, tonally reversed and laterally mirrored—light is dark, left is right. Highlights of this exhibition include twelve large-scale prints of landscapes and industrial subjects.
Radio Telescope, Effelsberg, XV: September 12, 2013
Vera Lutter
Unique gelatin silver print
96 x 84 inches
Collection of the artist, courtesy Gagosian Gallery © Vera Lutter. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Times Square, New York, V: July 31, 2007
Vera Lutter
Unique gelatin silver print
101 x 56 inches
Collection of the artist, courtesy Gagosian Gallery © Vera Lutter. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Clock Tower, Brooklyn XI: June 1, 2009
Vera Lutter
Unique gelatin silver print
98 5/8 x 98 7/8 inches
Collection of the artist © Vera Lutter. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005
Vera Lutter
Unique gelatin silver print
2 frames, each 91 x 56 inches
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund 2015.285.A,B © Vera Lutter
Rheinbraun, IX: August 30, 2006
Vera Lutter
Unique gelatin silver print
2 frames, each 96 x 56 inches
Collection of Larry Gagosian © Vera Lutter. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Partners
Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art. The New Orleans presentation is sponsored in part by Milly and George Denegre and Adrea Heebe and Dominick Russo. Additional support is provided by Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali.