The Phoenix Art Museum presents a new exhibition entitled 'Funny Business', focusing on comedic photography. Curator Emilia Mickevicius explains that humor's complexity is explored through photography due to its relationship with reality. The exhibition showcases various types of humor, including slapstick and ironic, and emphasizes how photography can disrupt expectations, creating a space for laughter and reflection on the nature of truth and context in visual art. This exhibition invites audiences to appreciate humor as an essential aspect of artistic expression, rather than a mere accessory.
According to the show's curator, Emilia Mickevicius, photography is an ideal medium to explore humor because, unlike other forms of art, it has a particular relationship to reality.
Humor shows just how contextual photographic meaning can be, said Mickevicius. When someone tells a joke, it's doing all this sneaky linguistic work, assuming that you as a listener have all the prior knowledge.
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