Fondation A: Where the Body Becomes Archive

At Fondation A Stichting, the retrospective RePose ExPose CounterPose situates Tarrah Krajnak within one of the most urgent questions shaping contemporary culture today: how the body can speak back to history.

Krajnak’s work unfolds from lived tension. Born in Lima and raised in the United States after her adoption, she operates between origins that are both intimate and fractured. Photography, performance, and archival material become tools to negotiate what cannot be fully retrieved but refuses to disappear. Her body enters the frame to test identity itself.

Across her practice, Krajnak revisits the foundations of photographic authority. By reworking visual languages once shaped by figures such as Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, she reveals how neutrality and beauty once masked exclusion. Familiar gestures are disrupted; absent voices become visible.

Krajnak’s use of cyanotypes, vernacular press images, and urban actions reconnects personal memory with collective history. In works that move through Lima’s streets or return to the act of posing, the past is neither frozen nor resolved. It is activated.

Her approach reflects a broader cultural moment. We are surrounded by images yet increasingly aware of what they omit. Authority no longer rests in distance, but in presence. The body, marked by migration, gender, and political inheritance, becomes a site of knowledge rather than mere representation.

At Fondation A, the retrospective charts a course from the intimate to the political without separating the two. Krajnak reminds us that culture today is shaped not by invention alone, but by re-entry: to look again, to stand inside the image, to insist that history is something we physically renegotiate.

Here, the body does not illustrate memory. It becomes its most active form.

22.01 > 17.05.2026
Fondation A: 304 Avenue Van Volxem, 1190 Forest, Brussels
www.fondationastichting.com/