Exhibition: Orlando

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Orlando design by Kameron Allen, MacFadden & Thorpe

Collier Schorr, Untitled (Casil), 2015–18. Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York — Collier Schorr, *Untitled (Casil)*, 2015–18. Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York

Jamal Nxedlana, FAKA Portrait, Johannesburg, 2019. Courtesy the artist — Jamal Nxedlana, *FAKA Portrait, Johannesburg*, 2019. Courtesy the artist

Zackary Drucker, Rosalyne, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles — Zackary Drucker, *Rosalyne*, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Lynn Hershman Leeson Rowlands/Bogart (Female Dominant), 1982, from the series Hero Sandwich. Hand-painted collage Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York — Lynn Hershman Leeson, *Rowlands/Bogart (Female Dominant)*, 1982, from the series *Hero Sandwich*. Hand-painted collage. Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York

Carmen Winant A melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, a fox in the snow, 2019 Courtesy the artist and Fortnight Institute, New York — Carmen Winant, *A melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, a fox in the snow*, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Fortnight Institute, New York

Paul Mpagi Sepuya Untitled, 2019 Courtesy the artist and Team Gallery, New York and Los Angeles — Paul Mpagi Sepuya, *Untitled*, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Team Gallery, New York and Los Angeles

Preproduction image made by director Sally Potter to help secure funding for the film Orlando, spring 1988. Courtesy the artist — Preproduction image made by director Sally Potter to help secure funding for the film *Orlando*, spring 1988. Courtesy the artist

Orlando presents recent and newly commissioned photographs inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s prescient 1928 novel, which tells the story of a young nobleman during the era of Queen Elizabeth I who lives for three centuries without aging and mysteriously shifts gender along the way. In 1992, filmmaker Sally Potter released a now-classic adaptation of the book with Tilda Swinton in the starring role. Since then, Woolf’s tale has continued to hold sway over the actor, who describes the book’s ability “to change like a magic mirror. Where I once assumed it was a book about eternal youth, I now see it as a book about growing up, about learning to live.”

The exhibition extends Swinton’s longtime exploration of the central themes of the novel; gender fluidity, limitlessness, and the deep perspective that is earned from a long life. Supported by a new selection of artworks from the McEvoy Family Collection, Orlando offers a panoply of colors and tastes that seek to liberate traditions of portraiture in photography from the constructs of prescriptive gender or social norms at a moment when debates around identity, representation, and society have reinvigorated the story’s legacy.

Orlando is accompanied by Issue #235, Summer 2019 of Aperture magazine, also guest-edited by Swinton, featuring writings from Michael Cunningham, Isaac Julien, Lynne Tillman, and B. Ruby Rich. Copies are available at McEvoy Arts throughout the exhibition.

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Tilda Swinton’s many films include Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986), Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992), The Garden (Derek Jarman, 1990), Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman, 1993), Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007), I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009), We Need to Talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011), Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014), and Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018).

FEATURED ARTISTS

Zackary Drucker
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Jamal Nxedlana
Elle Pérez
Walter Pfeiffer

Sally Potter
Viviane Sassen
Collier Schorr
Mickalene Thomas
Carmen Winant

Selections from the McEvoy Family Collection

Mariette Pathy Allen
Carol Bove
Bill Brandt
Talia Chetrit
Nan Goldin

Yasumasa Morimura
Lorna Simpson
Grete Stern

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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Installation view, Orlando, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (February 7 – May 2, 2020). Courtesy McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Henrik Kam. — Installation view, *Orlando*, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (February 7 – May 2, 2020). Courtesy McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Henrik Kam.

Take a brief video tour of Orlando at McEvoy Arts.

ABOUT APERTURE

Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture today is a multi-platform publisher and center for the photo community. From its base in New York, Aperture produces, publishes, and presents a program of photography projects and programs—locally, across the United States, and around the world.

Orlando is guest curated by Tilda Swinton and organized by Aperture, New York. Orlando is made possible, in part, with the support of Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker. Aperture also thanks ROOT STUDIOS for supporting the production of Mickalene Thomas’ work in this issue.