Deborah, from the series Week– End, 2009

Alex Prager

You are invited to join us on 13 June for the official opening of the new exhibition: 

ALEX PRAGER - SILVER LAKE DRIVE<a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/alex-prager"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/596x298/8b1c7ea20d/595desiree_from_the_series_the_big_valley_2008_c_alex_prager_courtesy_alex_prager_studio_and_lehmann_maupin_new_york_hong_kong.jpg" alt="" width="596" height="298" /></a>The Big Valley: Desiree, 2008 &copy; Alex Prager. Image courtesy of Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin New York Hong Kong
From June, Foam presents a retrospective&nbsp;of the work of American photographer Alex Prager (1979, USA). Prager&rsquo;s colourful oeuvre consists of heavily staged images reminiscent of stills from old Hollywood films. Grande productions, meticulously organised, borrowing style elements from film noir, thriller, melodrama and crime fiction in which women play a prominent role. An enigmatic, everlasting reality unfolds in each individual work.
The exhibition opens on Thursday 13 June. You are welcome from 17.30 hours onwards.&nbsp;The exhibition is on view until 4 September 2019.
<a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/alex-prager">&gt; Read more about this exhibition</a>
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with MBAL Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. Curator Nathalie Herschdorfer.
Visit and revisit <a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/alex-prager">Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive</a>, other exhibitions and <a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/for-members">events</a> as a <a href="https://foam.org/about/memberships">Foam Member</a>.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

<div class="sidebar__content">Official Opening 
Thursday 13 June 2019 from 17.30 hrs onwards</div>

Official opening:  Alex Prager

On Wednesday 12 June, Foam Fund, Club Foam and Foam Family members are invited for an exclusive preview of the exhibition Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive.

Silver Lake Drive, the second <a href="/museum/programme/alex-prager">solo exhibition</a> by Alex Prager at Foam, is a retrospective of more than ten years of work by the American photographer and filmmaker. It will be the first time that her most significant photo series and video works are all presented in one exhibition.
<a href="/museum/programme/alex-prager"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/596x298/16cfcbcb6d/595desiree_from_the_series_the_big_valley_2008_c_alex_prager_courtesy_alex_prager_studio_and_lehmann_maupin_new_york_hong_kong.jpg" alt="" width="596" height="298" /></a> The Big Valley: Desiree, 2008 &copy; Alex Prager. Image courtesy of Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin New York Hong Kong
This preview is exclusively for Foam Fund, Club Foam and Foam Family members and takes place from 18.30 - 20.30 hrs. You can sign up by <a href="mailto:mathilde@foam.org">sending an email</a>, until Tuesday 4 June.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with MBAL Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. Curator Nathalie Herschdorfer. Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.&nbsp;

<div class="sidebar__content">PREVIEW INFO 
Wednesday 12 June 2019 18.30 - 20.30 hrs This preview is exclusively for <a href="/about/memberships/foam-fund">Foam Fund</a>, <a href="/about/memberships/club-foam">Club Foam</a> and <a href="/about/memberships/foam-family">Foam Family</a>. LANGUAGE Dutch RESERVATIONS Via Mathilde Smit <a href="mailto:mathilde@foam.org">mathilde@foam.org</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>

Preview Alex Prager

Enjoy a special viewing of the exhibition Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive outside of regular museum hours.

Explore over ten years of works by Alex Prager&nbsp;undisturbed for hours on end. On Tuesday evening 18 June, Foam opens the doors for a chance to visit and complimentary guided tours. Member Hours are open to Foam support members and employees of Foam's corporate partners. Present your membership or employee card for admission to the museum.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x385/ec4867523c/crowd_9_sunset_five_from_the_series_face_in_the_crowd_2013_c_alex_prager_courtesy_alex_prager_studio_and_lehmann_maupin_new_york_hong_kong_595px_.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="385" /> Crowd #9 (Sunset Five), from the series Face in the Crowd 2013 &copy; Alex Prager / Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Silver Lake Drive is Pragers&nbsp;second solo-exhibition at Foam and shows a retrospect of more than ten years of work by the American photographer and filmmaker.&nbsp;Prager combines fashion, art and popular culture in her heavily stylized images in which women often play the leading role. Her photographs resemble stills from old Hollywood films, in which nothing is left to chance.
<a href="/museum/programme/alex-prager">&gt; Read more about the exhibition</a>
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Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

<div class="sidebar__content">MEMBER HOURS INFO 
Tuesday 18 June 2019 18.30 - 21.00 hrs guided tours included</div>

Member Hours Alex Prager

Silver Lake Drive, the second solo-exhibition by Alex Prager at Foam, is a retrospective of more than ten years of work by the American photographer and filmmaker.

In 2012, the American artist Alex Prager (1979, Los Angeles) won the&nbsp;Foam Paul Huf Award&nbsp;for her series&nbsp;Compulsion. Seven years later, Prager returns to Foam with an exhibition Silver Lake Drive.&nbsp;Prager&rsquo;s work is cinematic, drawing inspiration from her surroundings, personal experiences, street photography, pop culture and film. She utilises a range of style elements reminiscent of early film genres such as film noir, thriller, melodrama and crime fiction. Women have frequently been the protagonist in Prager&rsquo;s work, driven by emotion. Through the use of saturated colours and familiar imagery, Prager is able to create her own unique world where she explores darker topics in a seductive and unsettling way.
Prager&rsquo;s work is rooted in the photographic tradition of William Eggleston, Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman, each of whom mastered the art of freezing the indeterminable everyday moment. Prager&rsquo;s oeuvre consists of heavily staged, large format images using rich colours. Her photographs can be seen as &lsquo;single frame narratives&rsquo; that capture enigmatic stories within the edges of the frame. Both her photographs and films are characterised by the absence of a linear narrative; each of the works recounts a bizarre, perpetual unreality.
ABOUT ALEX PRAGER Alex Prager is self-taught. Her career took flight after her work was exhibited in the MoMA exhibition&nbsp;New Photography&nbsp;(2010). In 2012, she was awarded the&nbsp;Foam Paul Huf Award&nbsp;and her series&nbsp;Compulsion&nbsp;was exhibited in Foam. Her work has since been exhibited around the world in a range of prominent galleries and museums. Prager&rsquo;s photographs have been featured in publications including&nbsp;Foam Magazine, New York Times Magazine, American Vogue, W Magazine&nbsp;and&nbsp;Art in America. Her work features in the collections of numerous museums, including Foam, MoMA in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthaus Z&uuml;rich and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with MBAL Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. Curator Nathalie Herschdorfer.
Visit and revisit Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive, other exhibitions and <a href="/museum/programme/for-members">events</a> as a <a href="/about/memberships">Foam Member</a>. Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
Prager&rsquo;s native city of Los Angeles serves as both a source of inspiration and the backdrop to many of her series, such as&nbsp;Polyester&nbsp;(2007),&nbsp;Week-end&nbsp;(2010) and&nbsp;Compulsion&nbsp;(2012). Although the images appear to be capturing fleeting moments, they are preceded by a laborious production process. For her film&nbsp;Face in the Crowd&nbsp;(2013), for example, Prager had a team of more than 150 people at her disposal, in addition to 350 extras and a collection of props that the artist amassed over a period of 12 years. By composing her work using elements of decor, Prager sketches the framework of an open-ended story before allowing the viewer to complete the narrative.
Prager&rsquo;s most recent film,&nbsp;La Grande Sortie, consists of photographs and film images shot against the backdrop of the Opera Bastille in Paris. The series leads the viewer on a journey through the emotions that a prima ballerina (Emilie Cozette) experiences during her dance performance &ndash; ranging from being moved to sheer panic. The film concludes the retrospective and is a homage to the equally banal and fantastical hyper reality that is inherent to film and theatre and the silver screen.

Foam welcomes an exhibition by Alex Prager (Los Angeles, 1979), the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2012. The prize is organised by Foam and awarded annually to a young, promising international photographer under 35. Part of the prize is an exhibition at Foam.

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Official opening: Alex Prager