As part of PHotoESPAÑA 2026, LOEWE FOUNDATION presents Bunny, the first institutional solo exhibition by Talia Chetrit in Spain. Curated by Stella Bottai, the show traces nearly three decades of the American artist’s work, from some of the photographs she took as a teenager to new works being shown for the first time now.
Open to the public until August 30 at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid, Bunny builds a journey that constantly oscillates between intimacy and provocation, between humor and discomfort, between tenderness and desire. A visual territory where nothing is entirely stable and where each photograph seems to pose more questions than it answers.
A Photographer Who Has Never Stopped Questioning the Image
Nacida en Washington D.C. en 1982 y afincada en Nueva York, Chetrit se ha consolidado como una de las voces más singulares de la fotografía contemporánea. Su trabajo desafía las convenciones del retrato, el autorretrato y la fotografía documental, cuestionando continuamente quién mira, quién es observado y qué ocurre en el espacio que separa ambas posiciones.
Born in Washington, D.C., in 1982 and based in New York, Chetrit has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography. Her work challenges the conventions of portraiture, self-portraiture, and documentary photography, continually questioning who looks, who is observed, and what happens in the space that separates these two positions.
Like the figure that inspires its title, Bunny may appear tender, elusive, and funny all at once. The theatrics, vulnerability, and provocation thread through an artistic practice that moves effortlessly between self-representation, the surrounding family milieu, and the observation of everyday objects or fragments of the body.
Far from seeking definitive answers, her photographs are built from ambiguity. They bring together spontaneity and staging, the everyday and the performative, proximity and distance. This same complexity is reinforced by her commitment to analog photography, a medium she has remained faithful to since the 1990s and that brings a striking cohesion to her entire body of work.
