Collier Schorr

Collier Schorr

From Talk Art by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

March 20, 2026 · 1h 15m · Season 27 · Episode 5

About this episode

The episode features artist Collier Schorr discussing her photography and recent exhibition exploring themes of identity and representation.

Talk Art Season 27 continues with COLLIER SCHORR. Over four decades, Collier Schorr has used photography to scrutinise the conditions and realities of contemporary subjectivity and what it means to visually represent a body - and a self. Motivated, in part, by an underlying search for alternatives to the desirous heterosexual gaze; her work has remained focused on several key themes including beauty, desire, selfhood, and masculinity and its discontents. Schorr’s early work was made in the 1980s and 1990s in New York and Germany, during the coalescence of postmodernism and identity politics.  Her work from that period navigated the tension between documentary and fiction, and tested out the capacity of photography to unveil desire and repression, explore taboo identities, and highlight the contradictions inherent in subjectivity, especially in relation to gender norms. In more recent times, the artist has incorporated dance into her practice predominantly through adapting Chantal Ackerman’s film, ‘Je Tu Il Elle’ (1975), into a full-length filmed ballet performance featuring Schorr as Ackerman and a core group of professional dancers collaborating to create a multi-channel…

People in this episode

Hosts: Russell Tovey, Robert Diament

Guest: Collier Schorr

Topics covered

  • photography
  • identity politics
  • gender norms
  • selfhood
  • masculinity
  • art exhibition

Keywords

  • photography
  • identity
  • masculinity
  • art
  • exhibition
  • selfhood
  • desire

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Paris, Chantal Ackerman

Books & works: Je Tu Il Elle

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