American artist Lisa Oppenheim (1975, New York) has been invited to create a new body of work in response to the multifaceted work of one of the most renowned yet enigmatic figures in twentieth-century photography: the Luxembourg-born, American photographer and curator Edward Steichen (1879–1973). In Monsieur Steichen, she focuses on little-known aspects of Steichen’s practice, including his lifelong passion for flowers, his textile designs and his experimentations in the field of colour photography. ‘In this exhibition, I would like to inhabit the practice of Steichen rather than examine any particular project,’ Oppenheim explains. ‘I plan to do with the work of Steichen what he did throughout his own long life: inhabit his tendency to ingest and reconstitute a wide range of practices and ideas and in that way hopefully expand an understanding of what it is to be a cultural producer.’