Can Love Be a Photograph

One of the exhibition’s central threads is the motif of the kiss, which has appeared throughout their practice since the late 1990s. Works from the Me Kissing… series are presented alongside Think Love, a new body of work that extends this investigation of connection and emotional transmission. The grouping places earlier and recent photographs within the same visual field, giving the motif a continuity that runs across generations and different phases of their career.

Another key section brings together three important series from the early 1990s, made during the period in which Inez & Vinoodh were developing their pioneering approach to digital manipulation. These works address altered bodies, childhood, and constructions of masculinity, and they remain remarkably relevant more than thirty years after they were produced. Seen today, they continue to speak directly to contemporary anxieties surrounding perfection, visibility, and the shaping of identity through images—ongoing struggles.

Fashion appears throughout the exhibition as part of the larger body of work that Inez & Vinoodh have developed over four decades. Campaigns for Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel are shown alongside portraits of musicians, actors, artists, and politicians, while monumental photographs of flowers occupy the galleries with the same presence as the human figures. One room is devoted to editorial pages and collage work, bringing magazines into the exhibition and drawing attention to the role of print, layout, and collaboration in the formation of the duo’s visual language and in the history of contemporary fashion publishing.