Karine Laval @ Crane Kalman Gallery

Karine Laval: Reflections is a new exhibition celebrating 15 years of work by the contemporary French photographer, Karine Laval. The exhibition, organised to coincide with the publication of a major new book on her work by Steidl, charts the evolution of Laval’s images from sun-drenched, bleached-out European lidos to darker, more abstracted dystopian landscapes.
The exhibition brings together two connected bodies of work – ‘The Pool’ (2002-2005) and ‘Poolscapes’ (2009-2012) – focused on the motif of the swimming pool and realised over ten years. Presenting public pools in urban and natural environments throughout Europe and private pools in the US, the work shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the real to the imagined, from the photographic to the painterly.