Alex Prager: Matinee presents four new large-scale photographs that position Los Angeles as both subject and muse, examining distorted memory and myth-making through the city's enduring allure and ephemerality. Constructed entirely in-camera with meticulous mise-en-scène, the works probe the psychological and cultural undercurrents shaping generations of narratives and identities. Bonnie Hill (Overlook) captures a psychologically charged moment of suspension through the city's iconic overlook motif; Ceremony constructs a contemporary Renaissance-style tableau around Hollywood's ritual of dressing for performance. Time and memory collapse boundaries between reality and artifice, the sinister and the frivolous — oppositions that feel increasingly inseparable in our current cultural moment.
