Alex Prager, Mary Suspended Between Heaven and Earth, 2022. Image courtesy of Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
Wanting, Love, and Loss Los Angeles native Alex Prager reveals Hollywood’s visual excesses and distorted beauty standards through her own photographic lens. She first collaborated with Elizabeth Banks when the artist featured the actor, who has a gift for blending raw emotion and visual playfulness, in her 2013 film installation Face in the Crowd, an eerily charged meditation on our uniquely isolating time in which the ominous lurks just beneath the surface of the quotidian. Here, the pair discuss the art of reading faces, and the solitary and communal aspects of their crafts. 72 culturedmag.com