Jeff Wall’s newest exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill presents a collection of photographic portraits capturing a range of characters in their daily life or in moments of meditation. Several techniques typical of Wall feature, including the use of light boxes and prints of all kinds in silver gelatine. Equally perceptible in the works are specific themes which have led many to compare Wall's photography to 19th century painting, particularly its monumentality, attention to detail and complexity. 

Jeff Wall’s second exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill opened in October, showing a number of smaller works made in Rome alongside one of his largest works, the image of a barren landscape in Sicily. The almost biblical harshness of the arid landscapes which these images depicts harks back to an elemental stillness that only lands as ancient and culturally rich as Rome and Sicily can evoke. These works evidence not only Wall’s skill as a photographer but his profound understanding of the regions.

Jeff Wall's first show in Rome comprises a group of carefully composed cibachrome transparencies in lightboxes, each of which is defined and yet internally energized by human absence. The images appear to endow the mundane with a status as works of art, adopting a compositional rigour to contradict the seeming simplicity of the subjects.