Laura Letinsky

For its spring 2026 exhibition Galerie Miranda is delighted to annouce a solo show of nuanced still-life works by Chicago-based artist Laura Letinsky.  For over 30 years, the work of Laura Letinsky has consistently investigated what defines a photograph. In A pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information, Letinsky employs and combines historical and modern photographic processes to create images that challenge and elude predefined notions of spatial and temporal organisation: iPhone images printed as tintypes, one of the earliest photographic processes, digital pigment prints on paper and dye sublimation prints made on aluminium.

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For its spring 2026 exhibition Galerie Miranda is delighted to annouce a solo show of nuanced still-life works by Chicago-based artist Laura Letinsky. For over 30 years, the work of Laura Letinsky has consistently investigated what defines a photograph. In A pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information, Letinsky employs and combines historical and modern photographic processes to create images

that challenge and elude predefined notions of spatial and temporal organization: iPhone images printed as tintypes, one of the earliest photographic processes, digital pigment prints on paper and dye sublimation prints made on aluminum.

The artist’s latest series of works, That What Can’t Be, features snapshots taken with her iPhone - abstract compositions and still lifes of domestic disorder - are printed as tintypes, lending a reflective and silvery quality to the images. These intimate images, printed on a mirrorlike surface, evoke a sense of timelessness and introspection. Letinsky explains, “I’ve been commingling pictorial strategies and technologies, from perspectival to abstraction, as well as experimenting with different contemporary technologies, from state-of-the-art digital through to anachronistic printing methods using the sun, such as the cyanotype, platinum palladium, and the tintype, so as to shift temporal associations and stymie notions of linear and unrelenting progress.”

The series Who Loves the Sun was produced in her home and during her 2023 residency at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. The series explores the interplay of natural and artificial light, inspired by the bright, sun-soaked atmosphere of Provence. For their composition, Letinsky incorporated her own and borrowed objects, including ceramics and glassware from the late Dora Maar’s home, alongside local flora, fruit, and found remnants left by previous artists-in-residence. Printed as dye sublimation prints on aluminum, the framed works invite viewers to engage with the photograph as both image and object. As in her previous work, Letinsky’s carefully constructed still lifes evoke the passage of time, with hints of decay and change conspiring with the beauty of the compositions.

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