How do images come together and where do they fall apart? What faces, actions and gestures need to be remembered? What feelings need to be saved? This is not a conversation about answers - but rather a mapping of Pérez’s relationship with images and the ways they rupture, repair and begin again.
Gem Fletcher – Elle Pérez
In collaboration with Aperture and The Messy Truth
Born in the Bronx in 1989, Elle Pérez is a New York-based photographer. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Carnegie Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art. They participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Their photographs are held in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney Museum, among others. Pérez is also an assistant professor of photography at the Yale School of Art.
London-based writer, podcaster and curator Gem Fletcher contributes to publications including Foam, Aperture, Dazed and British Journal of Photography. She hosts The Messy Truth, a podcast exploring the future of visual culture. She is also the founder of Between Two Worlds: Photography’s Unfixed Future, a touring symposium examining photography’s changing role and future.
Elle Pérez, t (2018) – Courtesy of the artist
Other visuals
- Portrait – Gem Fletcher – Courtsey of Catherine Hyland