Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea photograph modern homes as if they were paparazzi

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

2 February – 7 July 2019

Vitra Design Gallery presents Lake Verea: Paparazza Moderna, the first exhibition in Europe by the two Mexican artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea.

The duo makes poetic portraits of single-family homes designed by famous modern architects. The approach of Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea involves sneaking up on buildings without warning, like paparazzi, with the goal of capturing situations of private everyday life. Each of the 24 works on view is an architectural portrait formed by from two to ten shots.

The striking photographic compositions of Lake Verea showing buildings by Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Rudolph M. Schindler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson were made from 2011 to 2018, during travels in the United States.

 

 

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Lake Verea, Lovell Newport Beach House (R.M. Schindler, 1926) Newport, California. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea shooting the Guy C. Wilson House (1939) by R.M. Schindler, Silverlake, California Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea, Glass House (Phillip Johnson, 1949), New Canaan, Connecticut. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea shooting the Lovell House (1927-29) by Richard Neutra, Silverlake, California. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea, Abele House (Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, 1940), Framingham, Massachusetts. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea shooting the VDL House (1932) by Richard Neutra, Silverlake, California Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea, Hagerty House (Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, 1938) Cohasset, Massachusetts. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea
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Lake Verea, Farnsworth House (Mies Van Der Rohe, 1945-51), Plano, Illinois. Paparazza Moderna series, 2011–2018 © Lake Verea