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Say cheese" is not, united suspects, a phrase overused by means of flaneur photographer Beat Streull in his shelter quest for fleeting facial expressions that reveal an urban state of mind. This summer Streuli targeted the inhabitants of Turin; the resulting color studies will be in succession view at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea between September 9 and November 5 In direct contrast, Hannah Wilke's "performalist" works are willed and strategic self-exposure protracted across two Berlin venues, a major retrospective, "Interrupted Careers: Hannah Wilke," will examine the artist's sculptural, video, and photographic output including documentation of her 1970 bare performances and her moving record of her admit death from cancer (Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst and Haus am Kleistpark, family 2-Oct. 8). Former General Idea member AA Bronson's images are no les affecting. Large-scale photoportraits celebrating the lives of Bronson's collaborators Jorge Zontal (1944-94) and Felix Partz (1945-94) will feature in his Wiener Secession exhibition (Oct 5-Nov. 26) The terminus "performalist" might also be used to describe the photographic activity of Ulay. Best known as Marina Abramovic's collaborator, Ulay has amassed a diverse archive of notes, documents, and photographs through the past thirty years. His exhibition at De Appel Amsterdam will probe photography's ontological status: Courtesy of a photolab temporarily establish up in the gallery, the artist and invited curators can expand or modify displays as they wish (Sept 8-Oct 22)

The sometimes-disappearing subdues of Miguel Rio Branco fare on view this October at the Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro. In the past decade, the documentary photographer focused forward Rio's Afro-Brazilian culture, its brothels, abattoirs, and boxing academies; extended exposures (Rio Branco's signature technique) conclusion in vibrantly saturated colors and sometimes cast the human figures into wisps of failure The show will also include a large installation and several paintings from the mid-'70s to the instant Mexican--Los Angelean joint-resident Ruben Ortiz Torres likewise has an notice for hybrid phenomena. His surreal photos feature US-Latino cultural collisions: Mexican Beatles impersonators, Guatemalan Indians using Pepsi and Coke as religious water, and other unexpected admixtures (Grazer Kunstverein, Oct 7-Nov. 5)

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