Shoot the Family June 22, 2007

'Shoot the Family' explores the undercurrents of contemporary domestic life. It focuses on artists' portrayals of their own families: photographs and video works of relatives and partners that can be harrowingly intimate, questioning any pretense of objectivity between image-maker and subject. Made during the last ten years by artists active in North America, Europe and Asia, the works on view show the influences of traditional family snapshots and documentary and staged photography, as well as Conceptual art and performance art.