SIMONE GILGES presents, in her second New York solo exhibition at Foxy Production, a new series of photographic portraits. Her photographs draw astute visual connections between the people she portrays and the settings in which they are posed. Gilges channels the tropes of portrait, design, and fashion photography into an enigmatic idiom that both discloses and holds onto its secrets.

Links among the works propose intriguing interpretations of the relationship between the individual and the group. Her subjects – friends of hers from Berlin – maintain a discrete integrity within their own photographs; in series, however, they form a conceptual network that is alluded to rather than literally elaborated.