Hear from visitors sharing their favorite Passover rituals in It’s All Relative: A Family Matters Reflection and Response Space.
Share your family stories with us! Gillian Laub: Family Matters offers a vulnerable window into the artist’s family during times of joy, rupture, and repair, resulting in moments of deep self-reflection. By sharing her point of view, Laub also invites us to reflect on our own relationships with our loved ones. Located in The CJM’s Yud Gallery, It’s All Relative is presented in conjunction with Gillian Laub: Family Matters. This space offers a moment to pause and reflect on stories about your family, whether biological or chosen, and how those relationships have shaped you.
For the last two decades, American photographer Gillian Laub has used the camera to investigate how society’s most complex questions are often writ large in our most intimate relationships. Throughout her career she has been simultaneously, and privately, documenting the emotional, psychological, and political landscape of her own family—exploring her growing discomfort with the many extravagances that marked their lives. Intense intergenerational bonds have shaped and nurtured Laub, but have also been fraught. Balancing empathy with critical perspective, humor with horror, the closeness of family with the distance of the artist, Gillian Laub: Family Matters offers a picture of an American family saga that feels both anguished and hopeful.
Gillian Laub: Family Matters is organized by the International Center of Photography, New York, and has been made possible through the generous support of Marina and Andrew Lewin, Benrubi Gallery, and, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gililan Laub, Chappaqua backyard, 2000. © Gillian Laub