LENS-BASED EXHIBITION: 'Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear' at The MoMA (@themuseumofmodernart)!⁠ •⁠ An incisive observer and a creator of dazzling #pictures, Tillmans (@wolfgang_tillmans) has experimented for over three decades with what it means to engage the world through #photography. Presenting the full breadth and depth of the artist’s career, the exhibition invites viewers to experience the artist’s vision of what it feels like to live today.⁠ •⁠ From ecstatic #images of nightlife to abstract images made without a camera, sensitive #portraits to architectural slide projections, documents of social movements to windowsill still lifes, astronomical #phenomena to intimate nudes, Tillmans has explored seemingly every imaginable genre of photography, continually experimenting with how to make new pictures. He considers the role of the artist to be that of “an amplifier” of social and political causes, and his approach is animated by a concern with the possibilities of forging connections and the idea of togetherness.⁠ •⁠ Tillmans has rejected the prevailing conventions of #photographic presentation, continuously developing connections between his pictures and the social space of the exhibition. In his installations, unframed prints are taped to the walls or clipped and hung from pins, and framed photographs appear alongside magazine pages. Constellations of images are grouped on walls and tabletops as photocopies, color or black-and-white photographs, and video projections, exemplifying the artist’s idea of visual democracy in action.⁠ •⁠ The exhibition is on view through January 1, 2023. Learn more through the link in our bio!⁠ •⁠ Images: Wolfgang Tillmans, “Icestorm,” 2001; a 2004 work from Tillmans’s “Freischwimmer” series, which he makes by shining flashlights at photographic paper in the darkroom. Courtesy or the artist; David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; Maureen Paley, London.⁠