Covered/Uncovered is a series of embroidered photographs that explores perception and interaction with the natural environment. The foundation prints reference classical landscape photography, which is uncovered. The artist combines pieces of transparency with needle & thread to emphasize the covered. The combination of a two dimensional photograph with three dimensional...
Giovanni Presutti: Hello Dolly!
The overbuilding of the territory is consuming an increasing share of agricultural area. Our suburbs are now clones of the city where shopping malls, multiplexes, industrial buildings, parking lots and social housing follow each other eroding the living space from which we derive our sustenance. In the near future Dolly,...
Alexandra Serrano: Nesting in the Wolf Tree
“The Forest is a state of Mind.” Gaston Bachelard Nesting in the Wolf Tree is an ongoing photographic series that depicts the forest as a space of the unseen and the mysterious whose immensity engenders admiration, contemplation and fright. The territory I chose to portray is the forest of Fontainebleau,...
Julie de Waroquier: Brave New World
When framing a landscape or a wildlife picture, we avoid electric wires, modern buildings, trash or any unwanted human traces, which are considered as visual parasites. On the contrary, we are looking for a pure nature to depict in our pictures, which would not be transformed by our technology. However,...
Alexandra Zhidkikh: In My Room
This is a simple photo set about the beauty in everyday life, the naturality, and self-acceptance - nude women in their own rooms, without embellishments, touch-up, makeup, or studio light. The sources of inspiration surround us - a ray of light that falls from the window on your friend's shoulder...
Leticia Bernaus: Zoobiografia
André Bazin said, “If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation.” He was talking about the idea of the preservation of the body as the constitution of a work of art about oneself:...
Eva Gjaltema: Sehnzucht & Sehnzucht: The Remix
Eva Gjaltema gives a glimpse into her most recent work: ’Sehnzucht’ and ‘Sehnzucht: The Remix’, where the series are based on the artist’s personal experience of becoming a mother, the contradictory nature of the event and the conflicting emotions it creates. Her work describes the awe at the incredible ’once...
Diane Vincent: I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle’s Hand
I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle's Hand is an invitation to open our imagination, following an age-old wise creature. It's offering to participate in reality through multiple layers, while listening to a polyphonic universe overflowed with colors. It can be seen as an experiment in being playful, light-hearted and magnanimous. Nature is...
Florian Amoser: Quantified Landscape
Quantified Landscape introduces an ongoing research project on the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, I mapped out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a...
Felipe Abreu: Mountains Inside Us
Felipe Abreu started photographing during his undergrad studies in cinema, at the University of São Paulo. Since then photography has become a major part in his life, work and studies. Over the past six years Felipe has shot, edited and presented seven main works, which focus on how man relates...