04/05/2026
ILIT AZOULAY: NO SINGLE VIEW
Solo exhibition opening May 15 at Villa Stuck, Munich
Exhibition dates: May 15-October 18, 2026
Curator: Helena Pereña
Research: Valerie Groth, Helena Pereña, Sabine Schmid
No Single View explores how histories are formed through perspective. Rather than presenting a single, fixed narrative, Ilit Azoulay approaches memory as something mobile, shaped by processes of selection, isolation, and arrangement.
At the center of the project is the figure of Mary Stuck, the only daughter of the painter Franz von Stuck. In Azoulay’s film Mary, seventy-seven actresses embody the same character in a fictional interview. Through these shifting voices, Mary appears not as a stable identity but as a composite presence, fragmented, contradictory, and continuously reimagined.
From this inquiry, Azoulay develops a series of photographic works and sculptural photo-collages. Using macro photography, she focuses on overlooked details and material traces, assembling them into layered compositions where images, texts, and fragments coexist without forming a linear narrative. These works do not attempt to reproduce reality but function more like a form of visual cartography, mapping relations between objects, memories, and perspectives.
Images are details from the works featured in the upcoming exhibition: Report 004; Report 009; Record 003 and Report 006.
