Thresholds and transitions within and between people form a perpetual theme uniting the photography and video work shown in A Wordless Whisper; the child on the threshold of the adult world and the thresholds between individuals.

Herman’s intimate portraits explore closeness within the family with a special interest in sibling-relationships. In her photographs and video’s, family members seem to have gentle, loving and tender physical encounters.

“The most fragile contact and elusive things between people often seem to exist beyond the reach of language. I am fascinated by relationships betwe...

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In the creation of her 'scenes', Kumi Oguro uses her female models as if they were dolls and places them in a space that is indeterminate; an opaque context. Everything seems to be under the control of the artist, and yet there is the sense of a certain degree of intuitive decision or involuntary action at work in the staging.
The faces or identities of the models are mostly not shown. Their poses are uncomfortable, or at least unnatural. That, together with a particular way of framing that evokes a space outside the image and the strong contrast of light and darkness, creates an underlying and elemental tension.
Oguro suppli...

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By making installations, using projections and photographic sculptures, Doina Kraal creates a world for the viewer to step into. An ephemeral world comes into being in which recognizable elements, such as everyday objects and ordinary situations are brought together with seemingly impossible and unusual ideas.

For her first solo exhibition in Amsterdam, Kraal got into her grandparents and great-grandparents photographic archives. Photography seems to serve well as a pure way to represent reality. It shows us that, which is visible to all of us, the uppermost, most accessible layer of reality. Tourist photography is in the fi...

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