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:...
Frédérick Carnet: The Last First Day
A photographic essay by Frédérick Carnet: First of January 2106. Rügen. An island in northern Germany plunged into a strange atmosphere, post-apocalyptic, that reminds me of the movie The Road (2009, John Hillcoat). And if that day was the last first day of a fragile peace? This photographic essay, like...
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...
Alexandre Chamelat: Nostalgic Grains
Summer childhood holiday memories . The white light and the clarity of images recalls the soft cocoon of this slice of life. Every detail, every grain offering us a story , a memory. The decor is neither pleasant, nor idyllic , it offers a natural stage for the actors (puppets)...
Ryan James Caruthers: Tryouts
Self portrait project exploring the connections between masculinity, homosexuality, and athleticism. Tryouts echoes the shrill call of boyhood in its most parting form. Subtleties of male beauty lay dormant and an explorative claim for virility presents itself anew. Found often with a bloody nose, brutality is questioned. His gaze aids...
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...
Zeren Badar: Accident Series
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. - Jasper Johns I'm hugely influenced by dada and neo-dada. In this photography project, I explore a peculiar combination of photography, painting & collage. I create three dimensional collages with found objects, food and cheaply printed old paintings....
Luca Tombolini: Landscapes
The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had...