Archive 2018

‘Decontext’ originates from personal or collective memories, yet in the finished works, these emotions and experiences are dramatically different and removed from their original context. They are transformed into purely visual, elemental forms. The viewer’s gaze shifts between seeing the image as abstract beauty and recognizing it as a vessel of meaning, emotion, and narrative. With their art Salto and Backhaus challenge us to see both the photograph itself and the world it represents.

‘In security’ documents the subtle shifts that occur in the struggle for security operating between technologisation, improvisation, media production and research and constitute the new infrastructure of things designed for our protection. Steamed from the perceived threat that grows with each terrorist attack in Europe and with it a desire for security.

Other works of Stelte include ‘Renaissance’ an ongoing project that explores the broad supply of spiritual eclectism in urban communities that strives for stress relief. Other projects include ‘Drunk in love’ and ‘Horzes’, more can be found on his website.

‘What is it to be somebody’ is a poetic journey into the mind where melancholy, longing and separation provokes artistic reflections into identity and existence in a time where human emotion is increasingly exchanged through digital channels.

Balajovskys concern lies with the relationship between the individual subject and the surrounding world. Often involving her own life, therefore merging the line between documentary and fiction to tell her story.

’Handbook of a Town’ embarks on a scientific study of the city of ‘Reggio Emilia’, the hometown of her family. The city playing an important part of her history while also carrying great symbolic national value as the place where the Italian flag – ll Tricolore’ was invented in 1797. She comments on the clash between the large brushstrokes of history with the finer details of her personal narrative through a guide book in understanding the city consisting of observation, collection and investigation, creating a personal and universal look at history.

Vighi defines her visual research as ‘Geoiconographies’, making these means to describe originally a real circumscribed place, but also an imaginary or metaphorical one. She explores themes of geography and archaeology, referring to a particular kind of geography, which is always deeply mediated by subjectivity and human relationships, ‘soul geography’.

Marta Pohlmann-Kryszkiewicz Exhibit ‘Natural Forms’ was selected from an open call to be part of 2018 Copenhagen Photo Festivals: Photo city. ‘Natural Forms’ is born out of a fascination of the way materials are constantly undergoing change, and in her work  exploring this impermanence. With her camera she freezes the critical moment where something withers and dies, and the disturbing forms of decay are alternately fused and torn apart in monumental and virtuoso compositions of colours and shapes.  ‘Natural Forms’ is both a tribute to beauty and a requiem for the dying building blocks of consumerism.

Prasiit Sthapit exhibit ‘Change of Course’ was invited by the programme committee to  participate in the 2018 Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photo City. ‘Change of Course’ presents a unique photojournalistic where Prasiit Sthapit has portrayed the Narayani River, a river that marks the border between India and Nepal. Over the years the river’s run has changed and with that the border. In this exhibition, Sthapit poetically depicts life in the liquid borderland of looming conflict.