Images Catherine Opie shot in California’s Yosemite National Park, and which she describes as “highly vaginal to a certain extent”, on show at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Hong Kong as part of the American artist’s first solo exhibition in the city. Photo: courtesy of Lehman Maupin
Yosemite in all its intimacy: feminist photographer Catherine Opie’s first solo Hong Kong show features western landscapes
Sharp close-ups of features of the California national park, accompanied by unfocused, blurry shots from the same spots, are inspired by the same radical impulse as artist’s earlier representations of oppression of sexual minorities
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Images Catherine Opie shot in California’s Yosemite National Park, and which she describes as “highly vaginal to a certain extent”, on show at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Hong Kong as part of the American artist’s first solo exhibition in the city. Photo: courtesy of Lehman Maupin