Everything has a flip side
• Rinko kawauchi// Illumiance
• Wolgang Tilmans, 2003
• Shirana Shahbazi//good words
• Vasantha Yogananthan
• Christian patterson// Readheaded peckerwood
• Vanessa Winship
• Tereza Zelenkova
• Lorna simpson// Unanswerable
• Felicity Hammond
• Wangechi Mutu
• John stezakar
• Lucas balock
• Dafna Talmor
• Seba kurtis
• Zineb Sedria
• Luke wills thompson
• How art can be thought// Allan Desouza
Rinko Kawauchi
Illuminance: Inspired by the subtle aesthetic of wabi-sabi—a philosophy of reduction, modesty and the beauty of imperfection—these luminous images offer an enchanting gaze on the world around us.
Wolgang Tilmans
Freischwimmer 20 is an exquisite example from Tillmans’ most renowned series of abstractions in which he trades his camera for a light pen, which he then uses to “draw” on photographic paper in the darkroom.
Shirana Shahbazi
In her project Goftare Nik/Good Words, Shirana Shahbazi (Iran, Swiss resident, born 1974) reflects on the impact of pictorial representation in the construction of notions of culture, religion, and identity. Taking the city, surroundings, and people of Tehran as her subject, Shahbazi explores trans-cultural attitudes and habits existing in present-day Iran and where they collide—and blend—with stereotypes of traditional Islamic culture.
Vasantha Yogananthan
A Myth of Two Souls (2013-2019) is an ambitious ongoing body of work inspired by the Indian legend of The Ramayana. A Myth of Two Souls continues his artistic and philosophical concerns. Juxtaposing colour and hand-painted photography, the series interweaves fictional and historical stories, old and new traditions and offers a lyrical photographic re-imagining of a classic tale and sits somewhere between documentary, fiction, mythology and reality.
Christian Patterson
Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way.
Vanessa Winship
Winship was the first woman to win the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award back in 2011, and she now has a major solo show opening at London’s Barbican Art Gallery on 22 June, also titled And Time Folds. It features over 150 photographs including previously unseen projects and archival material; it also includes her newest series, a mixture of “completely different, random formats” and found objects, inspired by her granddaughter and “how she frames herself in the world in relation to seeing, hearing and touching”.
Tereza Zelenkova
Zelenkova's practice often deals with mysticism, ranging from abstract ideas about death and the sacred, to documenting concrete locations tied to local mythologies or mysterious historical events. Her inspiration often comes from literature and philosophy, but she also embraces coincidence, intuition and analogy as essential working methods.
Lorna Simpson
‘Unanswerable’ (2018), is composed of over 40 individual photo collages each of which is unique and created from original source material and archive photography. A series of female protagonists are often the focal point of the images and Simpson splices these with architectural features, animals and natural elements to create scenarios that are at once poetic and arresting. In this way the artist deftly suggests compelling new narratives that emerge from the unexpected settings and contexts.
Felicity Hammond
Hammond is an emerging artist who works across photography and installation. Fascinated by political contradictions within the urban landscape her work explores construction sites and obsolete built environments. In specific works Hammond photographs digitally manipulated images from property developers’ billboards and brochures and prints them directly onto acrylic sheets which are then manipulated into unique sculptural objects.
Wangechi Mutu
In her diverse practice Wangechi Mutu reflects on sexuality, femininity, ecology, politics, the rhythms and chaos of the world and our often damaging or futile efforts to control it.
John Stezakar
Stezaker is a contemporary British Conceptual artist best known for his collages of found images taken from postcards, film stills, and commercial photographs. Stezaker’s work resembles early-Surrealist and Dada collages made by artists like Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, and Man Ray.
Lucas Balock
Blalock’s photographs are awkward. They trip themselves up, cross their own wires, scramble their own energies. They are not “well done.” But of course most things aren't. We live amid a profusion of the jury-rigged and the half-baked, those thoughts and objects that are at best nice tries, tries, but never successes. Like most things pathetic, however, there is also a sweetness about Blalock’s pictures, a certain imperfect grace that exists at cross-purposes with their atmosphere of failure. They recall the writer Donald Barthelem's memorable remark on accuracy in his fiction.
Dafna Talmor
Constructed Landscapes: This ongoing body of work consists of staged landscapes made of collaged and montaged colour negatives shot across different locations that include Israel, Venezuela, the UK and USA. Initially taken as mere keepsakes, landscapes are merged and transformed through the act of slicing and splicing. The resulting photographs are a conflation, ‘real’ yet virtual and imaginary. This conflation aims to transform a specific place - initially loaded with personal meaning, memories and connotations - into a space that has been emptied of subjectivity and becomes universal. Talmor produces assemblages peppered with marks, punctuations and clues to the images’ making, her initial photographs of subtly significant and undulating spaces are not quickly graspable, and are not spaces of rapid digestion.
Seba Kurtis
Seba Kurtis was born in Argentina in 1974. Several years spent as an illegal immigrant have informed much of his work, which explores the personal, social and cultural impact of irregular migration.
Zineb Sedria
In her early works, Sedira explores the traditional gender roles of Arab women, particularly as passed from mother to daughter. The three-channel video Mother Tongue (2002) presents members of three generations discussing childhood in their native languages—the artist in French, her mother in Arabic, and her daughter in English—until communication breaks down between daughter and grandmother, who have no language in common. When Sedira returned to Algeria in the early 2000s, she shifted her lens away from herself and toward a more general landscape of displacement. Since the video project Saphir (2006), her visual repertoire has frequently included images of the sea, harbors, and cargo ships, the means by which people and things drift from place to place.
Luke Willis Thompson
Luke Willis Thompson works across film, performance, installation and sculpture to tackle traumatic histories of class, racial and social inequality, institutional violence, colonialism and forced migration. Following research into racialised stop-and-search policies and killings, Thompson’s silent black and white 16mm and 35mm films are performances by people fundamentally impacted by police and state brutality.
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