"The wild expressiveness of her most famous photographs runs deeply through the pieces in Sanctum Sanctorum, named after the concept of a sacred room or inner chamber. Couples are shown nude and sexually entangled with one another; solo women sit glamorously in bed covered in fine jewellery; a female impersonator curls up on a striped mattress, almost naked except for a coiffed blonde wig and delicate heels."
"The exhibition celebrates Arbus as an artist who was able to build a great level of trust with her subjects, allowing her to access their private spaces and ultimately present them with autonomy and empowerment. While many of her images feature individuals photographed in public, Green imagines that she sometimes instinctively felt a drive to move to someone's home. "I think she immediately sensed there was more to get, should she be able to get inside with them.""
David Zwirner in London presents Sanctum Sanctorum, a show solely devoted to Diane Arbus's private interiors from the 1960s to 1971 across New York, California, New Jersey and London. The exhibition will move to Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, accompanied by a monograph co-published with the artist's estate. Photographs are in rich black-and-white, shifting from 9 x 6 prints until 1961 to Arbus's signature 14 x 14 squares from 1962. Images portray couples entwined nude, glamorous women in bed wearing fine jewellery, a female impersonator on a striped mattress, and many portraits framed around beds. The prints emphasize psychological intensity, trust, and subject autonomy.
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