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In Seoul, Petra Collins Sets Her Teenage Bedroom Ablaze

In her first major museum retrospective, “fangirl,” the Canadian photographer and Instagram phenomenon Petra Collins takes over the Daelim Museum in Seoul with more than 500 works that chronicle her meteoric rise, from adolescent outsider to reluctant muse of a millennial aesthetic she helped define.

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Thursday October 16, 2025

Summary

In her first major museum retrospective, “fangirl,” the Canadian photographer and Instagram phenomenon Petra Collins takes over the Daelim Museum in Seoul with more than 500 works that chronicle her meteoric rise, from adolescent outsider to reluctant muse of a millennial aesthetic she helped define.

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