CONSTRUCT YOUR STORIES III
KERSTIN FLAKE An artist working mainly in photography (and, occasionally, video), Kerstin Flake investigates the secret life of anachronistic, failed or transformed places. She explores their history by staging traces, objects and remains so as to create new conceptual and spatial relationships among them. To this effect, she constructs detailed installations or staged situations in […]
Katerina Athanasopoulou
Katerina Athanasopoulou The distance between the staircase and the sky 7:00min UK/GR 2022 In a fusion of synthetic and real pictorial elements, the portrait of a world emerges that unwinds between its banality and a poetic distillation from that contemplation. The act of climbing a staircase in the centre of Athens forms the referential system, […]
MANIFEST Yourself!
‘We will never be quiet again.’ – Suffragettes ‘Use the F-word. Be a feminist.’ – Guerrilla Girls MANIFEST Yourself! is an appeal and an empowering hymn to the (queer) feminist manifesto as an integral part of an ongoing protest culture and a medium of expression frequently used in contemporary art and culture. Recent events, such […]
Borrowed Limbs
Lisa-Marleen Mantel & Laura Juliane Wagner Borrowed Limbs, 2022 2:57min The short film Borrowed Limbs emphasises the mediating role of speculative design in the face of current disruptive advances in AI research. The protagonist is an AI that accesses a human body directly to gain an embodied understanding of its surroundings and complete its journey […]
Phantom Horizons
Trees are still barkin’ Max Kreis 3:00 min Germany 2022 In his work Trees are still barkin’, Max Kreis explores the question of how closely the images of an artificial intelligence can resemble the documentation of a real landscape. In the process, he finds darkly interwoven atmospheres in specially trained AI models, which in their […]
FRANÇOIS LEMIEUX
Secrets alone do not produce images. Only an inward search – an intensive examination of the self and its positioning in the world – makes a new symbolic language possible. The drawings of François Lemieux (b. 1979 in Québec, Canada) are the product of such introspection. Fed by images of political and social violence conveyed […]
BLINDSPOT
The work of Lisa Kohl (b. 1988 in Luxembourg) can be understood as a conglomerate of digital media, installations, field research, documentation, staging and narration. Her artistic excavations revolve around the ephemeral, the absent and the imaginary. Aesthetic phenomena of absence, migration and situatedness play a central role in her work. In the field of […]
The Missile Factory
Yun-Pei Hsiung (b. 1985, grew up in Taipei, Taiwan) works in the realm between design and art. His practice revolves around social interventions with a design approach, a method of eliciting social action through objects in public space. His works include objects, tools and drawings used in public spaces to initiate debates on social and […]
When all else fails, try Love
Nicole Rafiki’s interdisciplinary artworks move between photography and bead work, textiles and text, and the use of memorial objects old and new. Rather than producing finished products as an end result, Rafiki (b. 1989) treats art making as a practice of remembrance, healing and cultural analysis. Her images often employ artistic strategies that avert a […]
Backing Vocals
In film production, Montage denotes the processing and structuring of the recorded image and sound material in order to give the finished film its final form and create an immersive spectacle. Individual images and different layers of sound are merged and placed in a specific order to create the impression of temporal and narrative continuity. […]