"There exists a long tradition of thinking on photography in terms of its privileged access to the real. Unlike the painting or the drawing, the photograph was alleged to cut through the aesthetic and cultic value: what the camera produced was a document, without aura and free of aesthetic traps".(1)
The recent works by Katharina Sieverding focus on montages and interfaces of spaces, references, and protagonists carried to the extreme.
"Only then, when pushed to its limits, can it (the imago) be held still long enough to begin to ask questions of its nature. What is this thing, the imago, which stands for and yet is not "I'? And what is it that plays with the imago, which works on it from the outside, shapes it, sculpts it? For by definition it is a being that does not stand in the representation, but is external to it, is faceless, "abstract"".(2)
The 23 works in the series "Ressource Terabyte 2009" are upright formats, measuring 190 x 125 cm each, for the most part divided horizontally into three parts and of intensive, complementary, polarizing colour, for example, yellow/magenta, red/green, ultramarine/orange-red, turquoise/pink, coelin/yellow, white/red, etc. The basic structure, the tectonics of this three-part structure are black/white documentaries, fragments of the obsessive recordings of systems of art, economy, history, affection, personal performances, decay.
These colours, filtered highly analogously, function like an abstracting, melting, interdisciplinary cast medium, which may rephrase the questions concerning the colour of truth of documentarisms in the field of art(3), the symbolism of the colours of truth, the affective appropriation and feelings, the "affective turn"(4), and free itself from their conventions. The concern is to establish a counter power. "Perhaps when the imago is built and elaborated this strongly, it can push back some of the forces of normalization and speak in its own name."(5)
Women of Power consists of 29 color photographs depicting Polish witches, healers, sorceresses, visionaries, spiritual leaders and shamanic techniques practitioners.
According to what Ewelina Jarosz wrote about Women of Power : "The title points to Katarzyna Majak's intenti...
C’est à une invitation à la sérénité et à un retour sur soi que nous propose Yves Marcellin dans cette exposition inédite, installation photographique consacrée aux cinq remémorations du Bouddha.
Empreint des écrits du vénérable moine bouddhiste Thich Nhat Hanh, et plus particulièrement sensi...
With "The Family of Dog", Michael Ruetz has created, over the last 50 years, a unique body of photographic work. Superficially, these images might appear to pay tribute to the established forms of animal photography. But a second, more focused view shows that the reverse is true. Ruetz' pictures are as far removed from those of the animal specialist...
Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power.
In January 2010, while on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. After attempting to speak with a state empl...
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
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