Bruce Silverstein is pleased to open the fall season with Eileen Neff: A Prologue, the gallery’s second exhibition of Neff’s work.
In A Prologue, Neff revisits her earliest photo-based works from the 1990s. These works either physically appear in the installation designed for the gallery, or are strategically placed within new photographs created for this show. Additionally, the exhibition includes a re-make of her early photo-object, No Door, 1990 – a drop-leaf table affixed to the entrance wall of the gallery, topped with a mountain range of dirt collected at Mont Sainte-Victoire. True to the effect of Neff’s earlier installations, A Prologue proffers an uncanny phenomenon of viewing: the main gallery acts as a literal reflection of itself—a section of wall is mirrored in a photomural across the room, while other photographs depict Neff’s poetic images posed here in the gallery space or in her Philadelphia studio.