The Refusal, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 5 April — 15 June 2008
Solo exhibition, curated by Ute Eskildsen.
‘We react differently to portraits of people than to portraits of animals. Why and in what way? These are the questions the viewer is confronted with when standing before Longhurst’s works.... Despite their utter perfection, they unnerve the viewer through the polarity of rational documentation and emotional-situational depiction” Ute Eskildsen.
Work exhibited Twelve Dogs, Twelve Bitches, 24 photographs on aluminium, Breed, 4 photographs on aluminium, I Know What You’re Thinking, 4 photographs on mdf, The Queen’s Stud, stereoscopic print with glasses, Vincent, 4 photographs on aluminium, Sighthound, stereoscopic installation, At Home, 3 photographs on aluminium, It’s All in My Mind, 2 photographs on aluminium, Untitled I, II, III, and Portrait of a Dog, 4 photographs on aluminium, The Refusal (Part I), photograph in box frame, The Refusal (Part II), 3 photographs on aluminium, The Refusal (Part III), 6 photographs on aluminium, The Decisive Moment, HD video for monitor.
Installation views Heiko Tiemann