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Liz Johnson Artur on Degas's 'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando'
Liz Johnson Artur explores the painting's innovative composition and perspective
Liz, photographer and first-time visitor to the Gallery, talks about her approach to capturing an image in real time by drawing on the similarities between Degas's painting and one of her own photographs taken of Grace Jones.
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About the artist
Liz Johnson Artur (b. 1964, Bulgaria) lives and works in London. For over three decades, her work has documented the lives of black people from across the African Diaspora. She has exhibited internationally, including group exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, London, UK; David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany; the 10th Berlin Biennale, Germany; and a solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA. Her monograph with Bierke Verlag was listed by The New York Times in ‘Best Photo Books 2016’. In 2017 she was nominated for the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize.
About the painting
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