Elle Perez: Devotions

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  • ISBN 9781597115995
  • Dimensions: 224 x 289mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Aperture
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The first monograph focused on the work of Elle Pérez, collecting over a decade of deeply personal and visually striking images that imagine a world of love, desire, and vulnerability.

Love, heartache, pleasure, pain—Elle Pérez has emerged as a defining voice of their generation, collecting over the past decade a trove of deeply personal and arresting images of vulnerability’s rawest materials. Pérez makes disarmingly intimate images that portray states of emotional intensity and physical transformation. They started out as a teenager photographing underground spaces, making a tender and vivid record of unalloyed freedom. Since then, their work has ranged from striking portraits of friends and lovers to gladiatorial photographs of wrestlers, crystalline landscapes and still lifes, and sprawling multimedia collages that pull together influences across art and literature. This book presents the artist’s most influential works from 2009 to the present—alongside the ephemera, notes, and research that inform their singular vision—and confirms Pérez’s mastery of the fine balance between document and imagination, perception and performance.

Elle Pérez (born in the Bronx, 1989) is a photographer based in New York. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; and MoMA PS1, Public Art Fund, and American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Their work was presented in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale and featured at the Barbican Centre, London; Brooklyn Museum; and Renaissance Society, Chicago. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Pérez is an assistant professor and critic in photography at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Dean Daderko is the chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. Sylvie McNamara is a staff writer at the Washingtonian.