On view at Piedmont Arts, in Martinsville, Virginia, this exhibition is comprised of 14 framed photographs by Norwegian artist Bjørn Sterri from the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. From 2001 to 2023, Sterri photographed his wife, Alejandra, and their sons, Jens Linus and Pablo, to create an achingly beautiful chronicle of connection, change, and growth. Drawn from the first 15 years of this work, Bjørn Sterri: Family Photographs conveys the emotional complexity of the passage from childhood to adulthood, the challenges and joys of partnership and parenthood, and the tension between individual identity and family structure.
Bjørn Sterri: Family Photographs, 2001–2015 was organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Dr. Sarah Kennel, VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper.
My Family, Conil, Spain, 2014, Bjørn Sterri (Norwegian, born 1960), gelatin silver print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Gift of Joseph Baio, 2023.1702