Current Exhibition

Leigh Ledare

March 17 - April 21, 2012

Opening Reception: March 17, 6-9pm

For the second show in its new location, The Box is proud to present the gallery's first solo exhibition of the work of Leigh Ledare.

Displayed inside a 20' x 40' room constructed within the main gallery of The Box, Ledare will present the work Double Bind (2010). For Double Bind, Ledare went alone to a country house with his recently remarried ex-wife, photographing her over the course of three nights. Two months after this initial trip (upon Ledare's initiative and funded by the artist), his ex-wife returned to the same location with her current husband. During this second trip, her current husband, the photographer Adam Fedderly, documented her in the same settings for three days, having agreed in advance that he would give his unprocessed film to Ledare. This resulted in two archives of photographs - roughly 1,000 images, printed by Ledare and presented in their entirety within the show. These photographs of Meghan Ledare-Fedderly (taken from the position of the newlywed and that of the formerly married couple) in dialog compose the structural core of the project. Combined with materials from a third archive of found ephemera these form a series of diptychs, attributed alternately to Ledare and Fedderly. The printed materials, including pages torn from advertising and media, as well as personal ephemera, serve as models of broader social interaction, both reifying and interpreting the individual's experience. Lastly, three corresponding vitrines within the installation present the remaining surplus of unused materials from the 3 archives. Read More