In collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the 34  selected photographs display a variety of subjects—portraits, flowers,  and nudes—which revolve around the deliberate play of light and shadow.  This selection offers a compelling insight into Mapplethorpe’s  distinctive practice: rather than focusing on a particular moment or  subject, the artist explores forms and compositions through light and  shadow, which reveal his remarkable technical and formal mastery.

The photographs in the show were predominately taken in New York  between 1977 and 1987. These artworks are an invitation to travel  through an unexplored field invaded by an idyllic and enigmatic  atmosphere in black and white, where the shadow can become even more  important than the subject or the object.