Beat Streuli

About the Exhibition

Swiss photographer Beat Streuli documents the image of people in urban spaces. He captures people when they are at their most natural state, when they are not posing for the camera. Streuli uses a telephoto lens at a distance to catch his unknowing subjects appearing naturally, without artifice. As is typical for each of his projects, Streuli has produced for the MCA a series that has its own particularities due to both the place itself (Chicago) and to the particulars reached by the artist’s work at the time (people in groups, or individuals, etc.). For Streuli’s first commission at a United States museum, the MCA’s front lobby windows have been covered with transparent, large-scale colored photographs, so people from the outside are able to see in reverse what those in the inside see. Streuli’s photographic work, including prints, slide installations, and videos, has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as the 1998 Sydney Biennial and the 1997 Johannesburg Biennial.

This project is organized by MCA Associate Curator Staci Boris.