In Conversation: Jeff Wall

Film

Jeff Wall creates large-scale photographic works that blend conceptual rigor with the visual languages of painting and cinema. Often staged and meticulously composed, his images range from digital montages and illuminated transparencies to black-and-white and inkjet colour prints. Drawing on art history, literature and contemporary culture, Wall explores themes such as violence, memory and the everyday through what he calls “cinematography” and “near documentary.”

He represented a turning point in the acceptance of colour photography as a fine art form and was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2006) and the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2008). His work has been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the series “In Conversation. A series funded by Deutsche Bank”, an artist talks about their work on the first Saturday of every month at 3 p.m.