Maya Fuhr, Stella Star, 2025, pigment ink on archival cotton rag paper, 55.8 x 81.2 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Maya Fuhr, Sentient Meat, 2023, dye sublimation print on aluminum panel, 45.7 x 55.8 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Maya Fuhr: SOLE PARTS
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 6 – 8 pm
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Sole Parts brings together Maya Fuhr’s photographs of shoes coated and encased in latex, pushing them beyond their original function and identity into a suspended state between commodity and relic. Working across analogue photography and sculptural media such as latex, aluminum, and tape, Fuhr treats the photograph as an inherently unstable medium—one whose surface can crease, glisten, and fold under its own material weight, and whose relation to accuracy and reality is increasingly uncertain. Building on Fuhr’s editorial and commercial photographic practice, images once intended to seduce are now consumed by their material form, caught in the tension between glamour and decay.
Fuhr’s work articulates a poetics of containment and maintenance. These gestures operate both as acts of care and as mechanisms of concealment, tracing the unseen labour that sustains visual allure. In this way, Sole Parts makes visible the material and affective infrastructures that choreograph desire: the surfaces that preserve, the hands that perfect, and the quiet systems through which the image maintains its hold.
