Exposed at Tate Modern

Lynchings and suicides, night-time glimpses of couples having sex … Adrian Searle on a photography exhibition that tests our ability – and desire – to look

Link: Art review: Exposed at Tate Modern | Adrian Searle | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

“The exhibition is meant to be a critical look at the issues that surround voyeurism and surveillance,” said Simon Baker, Tate’s recently appointed photography curator.

“We are raising questions about boundaries, about technology. There are serious moral questions about who’s looking, how they’re looking and why they’re looking.”

Link: Tate Modern in display of voyeurism for photography curator’s debut | Art and design | The Guardian

If you feel dirty viewing Gilles Peress’s images of the Rwandan genocide, you should. If you’re captivated by Merry Alpern’s sneaked shots through a bordello’s window, brilliant. If you feel the horror in Jonathan Olley’s photo of a static oppression palace, the Gold Five Zero watchtower in South Armagh, good. You’re meant to be shocked, and you’re meant to think.

Link: Tate makes surveillance an art form | Leah Borromeo | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk