Installation |Mariah Robertson

To open its 2026 fall season, Galerie Miranda presents a two-person exhibition by contemporary artists Justine Kurland (1969, American) and Mariah Robertson (1975, American), both known for challenging the photographic status quo. In the exhibition Antiphoto, Justine Kurland and Mariah Robertson do not just challenge the photographic canon, they lay it to siege, by cutting up, painting over, photocopying and repurposing its founding pillars. Mariah Robertson's new work presented at Galerie Miranda is an installation that prefigures a forthcoming artist book. Since 2016, Mariah Robertson has been developing risographs for a book project that now exceeds 300 pages. (...) the new project brings together drawings, photographs, notes, and images from multiple bodies of work into a visual book, without texts, that has gradually evolved into an indirect self-portrait. Organized through recurring chapters and themes, the book incorporates material gathered over nearly a decade of artistic and personal inquiry. The risograph editions in this exhibition are drawn directly from a chapter exploring the male nude. Robertson writes, “It’s asking so little of one’s self to conflate personal desire and inspiration without incorporating the fruits of analytical thinking and self-awareness.” In a visual stream of consciousness, Mariah Robertson's risographs are installed unframed at Galerie Miranda, in a jubilant, color-graduated wall frieze. Robertson's choice of risograph printing for this new work questions market norms of art production, valorisation and display. A risograph printer (...) evokes the Xerox Art or Copy Art movement of the 1960s, that was particularly adopted by women artists who used it to challenge the dominant model of artistic production and creation of value. With Xerography, an infinitely and mechanically reproducible image was as a threat to the celebrated and often masculine works of abstract expressionism. (...)