Lale Tara: Innocent Surrogates

In the exhibition "Innocent Surrogates", Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery presented the latest photography series of Lale Tara, whom we know from the mise-en-scènes she creates with innocent surrogates. Inviting us to see in an entirely new way the theme of mother and child often treated in Renaissance painting, she documented a journey in space-time, imparting fairy-tale-like, supernatural qualities to the surrogates she photographed.

The artist, who explains that the series "Innocent Surrogates" consists of two-dimensional copies of the reality we believe in, thinks that the inclusion of these surrogates in our fantasies through the stories she conveys to us proves that they are real.

Curator: Engin Özendes