Over the past three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been fleshing out a portrait of middle America, that America of picket-fence suburbia gazing wide-eyed at the glimmers of a fading dream which has long since faded and wilted. His cinematographically staged photos have gradually pieced together the fragments of a twilight world. His oeuvre stunningly interweave an autobiographical dimension with the portrait of a gloryless America as the setting for a humanity devoured by muted angst while steeped in despondency and ennui. Wan lights and deserted streets are recurring tropes in his works, which are prepared like movie sets to produce photos that quite astonishingly remain images from nonexistent films.
This exhibition brings together works from the three series created between 2012 and 2022. Envisaged as a trilogy, they offer unique insight into a decade of creation and reveal the two central axes – intimate and political – of the universe that has posited Gregory Crewdson as one of the major figures of photography. Cathedral of the Pines and An Eclipse of Moths mark a pivotal phase due to the intimacy with which they vibrate, crystallized by the images’ locations, which are deeply connected to the lives of Gregory Crewdson, his romantic and creative partner Juliane Hiam, and their children. This trilogy, remarkably concluded by Eveningside, reveals the major articulations of Gregory Crewdson’s art, in a fine oscillation between poetics and politics, between a man’s down-to-earth sensitivity and his piercing grasp of the backwash thudding against a world in the grip of slow brutality.
Following the exhibitions at the Gallerie d’Italia (Turin, Italy, 2022), at Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles (Arles, France, 2023), at the VB Photography Centre (Kuopio, Finland, 2024) at the Marubi National Museum of Photography (Shkodër, Albania, 2025), the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi presents the works of this internationally acclaimed photographer.
Jean-Charles Vergne, Curator of the European travelling exhibition Author of the book Gregory Crewdson — Eveningside
Exhibition project in collaboration with Gallerie d’Italia – Intesa Sanpaolo
Gregory Crewdson is born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York. He lives and works between New York City and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, New York, and the Yale School of Art, New Haven, where he is now a professor and a director of graduate studies in photography. Collections include the Albertina Museum, Vienne ; Louis Vuitton, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Exhibitions include Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2005, travelled to Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Landesgalerie Linz, Austria); In a Lonely Place, C/O Berlin (2011, travelled extensively); Beneath the Roses, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (2014); Fireflies, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2014); The Becket Pictures, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2017); and Cathedral of the Pines, Photographers’ Gallery, London (2017, travelled to the Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland) ; Eveningside, Gallerie d’Italia, Turin, Italy (2022) ; Eveningside, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, La Mécanique Générale, Arles, France (2023) ; VB Photography Center, Kuopio, Finland (2024) ; Marubi Museum, Shkodër, Albania (2024) ; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2024) ; Picture Window, Collection Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany (2024).
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