Still image. Fotografie di Jessica Lange

Location: Musei Reali Torino. Address: Piazzetta Reale Still Image. Photographs by Jessica Lange is the largest retrospective ever dedicated to the celebrated American actress and photographer, with over 200 images, the majority of which are unpublished. The exhibition offers a journey through almost thirty years of artistic research, revealing to the public one of the least known yet most authentic sides of Jessica Lange’s personality: that of a keen and sensitive observer of the world. Structured into eight thematic sections, the exhibition path offers an intense, poetic and deeply human vision, capable of transforming places, people and fragments of everyday life into images of extraordinary evocative force. At the heart of the exhibition is the famous cycle dedicated to Highway 61, the road that crosses the United States from Minnesota, the artist’s birthplace, to New Orleans. In these black-and-white images, characterized by strong contrasts and an intense grain, Jessica Lange builds a narrative of rural America made up of suspended atmospheres, solitary landscapes and discreet presences, where every detail seems to hold a story. Alongside this core there is room for the i