Finding Magic Together
October 7 – December 24, 2021
C24 Gallery
560 W 24th Street, New York, NY
You are cordially invited to join us for the inaugural solo exhibition by Marie Tomanova at C24 Gallery, Finding Magic Together, a collection of new works in her ongoing series of photographs of a new generation of New Yorkers. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 7th, from 6-8pm.
We first showed Tomanova’s works in our 2020 group exhibition, On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography. Her refreshing take on New York City youth culture was initially the result of her own desire to make friends as a newly transplanted NYC resident, back in 2012. Since then, she has photographed hundreds of young people, enough to fill two books with intimate and engaging portraits.
Tomanova says: "This work is about New York City as a landscape of youth and a portrait of place—entwining person and environment. It is about places and people I have met here and the magic we found together. It is about discovering and expressing our identity or identities. It is about the beautiful fluidity of identity and experience. It is us. It is about being free to be yourself. It is about being with others. It is about New York City as a place of becoming. And it is about togetherness and the power of being together—connecting."
Her first book, published in 2019 and now out of print, contained an introduction by celebrated American photographer, Ryan McGinley. Her recently published book with art historian Thomas Beachdel, New York New York (Hatje Cantz), features a foreword by culture icon Kim Gordon.
After a busy summer exhibiting in France at the Rencontres d'Arles and the Czech Republic, with plans to have her work shown in China this fall, Marie’s return to New York City feels like a bit of a homecoming. We hope you will celebrate the beginning of a new chapter in her life with us next week.