CLOSING FOR:GROUND BY ZUN LEE

Photo Exhibition

Presented by the Goethe-Institut

with CONTACT Photography Festival & Art Metropole

Core exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2024

Interest in flâneurism within the practice of street photography is resurging but the concept remains problematic for its white male-centred gaze on urbanity. In this new exhibition-in-the-making, renowned artist and Guggenheim Fellow Zun Lee revisits his own street photography practice to depart from the usual focus on wandering. Lee proposes lingering and loitering as reclamation strategies to subvert the way modern technocultural urban spaces regulate wayward bodies. Rather than moving/observing, street photography can be reframed as an active way of destabilizing the urban environement and its sociality, producing alternate ways of understanding and reshaping our world, for bodies behind and in front of the camera.
Visit the exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Toronto from May 2 to May 29 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11 am to 5 pm.

Zun Lee is a multi-hyphenate artist, physician and educator who was born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. The Guggenheim Fellow has been an independent photographer since 2014. Lee has exhibited, spoken and taught at numerous institutions in North America and Europe. His works are widely published and represented in public and private collections around the world. Additional honors and awards include: Mellon Foundation Practitioner in Residence, Knight Foundation Grantee, Magnum Foundation Fellow, Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards Shortlist, Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.

Host or Publisher Goethe-Institut Toronto