PHOTO LONDON  2020

SEAGER is excited to present the first comprehensive exhibition of Liz Calvi’s portfolio for Photo London Digital 2020. 

Liz Calvi photographs herself, friends, and family to create intimate tableaux exploring gender, identity and sexuality. Each work is titled with the initial of a name, followed by Roman numerals that mark the count of their encounter with the photographer. Lifting these fragile moments into bold light through cinematic scenes, Calvi explores how we create, see and share ourselves with others. In doing so, she indulges in the often contested freedom of displaying one’s own body online and provokes experimentation with the heightened presence of a digital self. Pulling from imagery in our collective consciousness — specifically iconography from Hollywood & mass media, which influence identity construction — Calvi reenacts cinematic scenes in her personal surroundings as a form of reflection. The autobiographical and the staged, the ideal and the everyday start blending into each other. The most intimate breaks into the screen and reclaims the space of ‘content creation’ for the self, the friend, the lover and the sister — who can now carefully assemble their own fantasies rich with emotion and expression.