Presented in conjunction with Boren Banner Series: Tarrah Krajnak, join Lima-born artists and friends Tarrah Krajnak and Rafael Soldi for a conversation about their personal relationships to the city of Lima, Peru and how photography shapes narrative of lived and built memory.

Taking place at the Seattle Art Fair, the conversation is inspired by Krajnak’s Body Configurations series, selections of which are currently on view at the Frye. In this series, the artist contorts her body to mirror the architectural forms of her birth city, probing questions of identity, place, and memory.

Focusing on photography, performance, and poetry, Krajnak and Soldi will reflect on the similarities and departures in their artistic practices. Together, they’ll delve into the challenges and rewards of photographing in the street and discuss how artists can lean on each other in unexpected and meaningful ways.

About the Presenters

Tarrah Krajnak (b. Lima, Peru 1979) is an artist working across photography, performance, and poetry. Krajnak is currently based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Zander Galerie, Cologne/Paris. Krajnak is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently awarded the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, the Hariban Grand Prize, from Benrido, Kyoto, Japan, and The Lewis Baltz Research Award from Le Bal, Paris. Krajnak has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023). Her work was featured in recent issues of Aperture, British Journal of Photography, The Eyes Journal, and European Photography. Krajnak’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Pinault Collection, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, among others.

Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian­-born artist and independent curator based in Seattle (unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples). He uses video, photography, installation, text and performance to reflect on masculinity, language, immigration, violence, and memory, informed by his queer, Peruvian identity. Rafael weaves his personal history with collective memory to explore how gender expectations are encoded—and can be subverted—within language and childhood games. Recent works index a type of masculinity largely governed by a violence that barely conceals an urgent need for intimacy and connection. Rafael has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, Frost Art Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, CLAMP, The Print Center, Museo MATE, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, among others. He has received support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, The Northwest Film Forum, Puffin Foundation, smART Ventures, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Center Santa Fe. He has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and PICTURE BERLIN. He was a 2022 finalist for the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award.