Melanie Bonajo ~ (Our) Nature has no boss
Thomas Demand ~ Embassy
Bonajo’s images are like spells, mystical acts which originate from an endlessly effervescent fantasy or are used to shape the world to fit her own viewpoint, to make the world comprehensible.
Embassy consists of six different views of the spaces in the embassy of the Republic of Niger as Demand remembers them, providing the first photographic component to the story of a theft, ending with a war.
A Trait Angel, 1954
Visit in Night, 1951
Moira Ricci ~ 20.12.53-10.08.04
Toshiko Okanoue ~ The Miracle of Silence
Moira Ricci is everywhere. She is present in all her artworks, which is hardly surprising. The puzzling thing is that she is a photographer and a video-artist who does not seem to take any pictures or shoot any video at all. Her artistic process is less like a songwriter’s and more like that of a music producer or a dj who remixes new versions of old songs.
Since the late 1990s the photo-collage works of Toshiko Okanoue have been ‘rediscovered’ through exhibitions and in publications. Her works have gained recognition for their importance to postwar photography and the surrealist movement in Japan. Her works had been buried in oblivion for nearly forty years, largely because of the course her life took.
Martina Sauter ~ Double
Myoung Ho Lee ~ Tree
The pleasure of observing, together with the emotional implications of being a spectator, are the themes that pervade all of Martina Sauter’s work, imbuing her images like an all-embracing law that subverts the conventional view of everyday things with suspense.
Simple in concept, complex in execution, Myoung Ho makes us look at trees, one at a time, in their natural surroundings. He isolates each tree from its immediate environment by presenting it against an immense white canvas backdrop, creating in effect, a temporary monumental outdoor art installation.
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