Like Hellen van Meene, Justine Kurland’s subjects are young women nearing adulthood. To this theme, Kurland brings a particular American point of view, photographing her models in roving packs that crisscross and occupy the landscape like she-wolves. Posed in large color tableaus, Kurland’s girl/women engage each other in listless occupations in landscapes that, like the girls themselves, seem suspended between two absolutes.
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Justine Kurland’s photographs are about adolescence, awkwardness, girls, the American landscape, secrets, and quiet, private dreams of community that hide behind tough exteriors and blank faces…