Jeff Wall: Time Stands Still. Photographs, 1980-2023

MAAT hosts one of the most comprehensive exhibitions to date of Canadian artist Jeff Wall, a leading figure in contemporary photography. This marks his first solo show in Portugal.

The exhibition features over 60 works spanning four decades, filling the entire MAAT Gallery. Wall’s staged photographs explore everyday scenes and the complexities of modern life—loneliness, poverty, alienation, urban violence, and social exclusion. His images are often inspired by personal experience, literature, and art history.

Carefully composed and executed with the precision of a painter or filmmaker, Wall refers to his approach as “cinematography,” emphasising the constructed, subjective nature of his work.