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Barbara Kasten

Barbara Kasten Work from Constructs. “Influenced by The Bauhaus and Constructivism, Barbara Kasten explores modes of reorganizing the visual environment. With geometric shapes, mirrors, glass, lighting gels and a lighting crew recruited from the film industry, she creates abstract interpretations of interior spaces and architectural details.” – MoCP

Shirana Shahbazi

Shirana Shahbazi Work from her oeuvre. “How real or abstract is photography? Shirana Shabazi’s work has circled around this theme for over ten years. Often she arranges her images in startling combinations. For instance, abstract color gradations are placed alongside a double portrait, followed by a black and white steppe-like landscape, then a still life […]

Sam Falls

Sam Falls Work from Color Dying Light. “‘When I was asking for help titling the book friends would ask ‘well, what’s it about?’ and I’d say, ‘It’s about color, it’s about dying, and it’s about light’. So that’s it, Color Dying Light. There are pictures where I added and subtracted color from flowers, one where […]

Phil Collins

Phil Collins Work from his oeuvre. “In all the different strands of his practice Collins investigates the perils of representation and the emotional core of such seemingly transparent media as video and photography. Instinctively distrustful of the camera and its effects, yet responsive to its potential as an instigator of relationships, his works often revolve […]

Étienne Chambaud

Étienne Chambaud Work from his oeuvre. “CHAMBAUD’s work never functions in isolation but finds its sense or its interest in a permanent dialogue with other works. They grow mutually rich, while gradually drawing the vague contours of a constellation made of common references” – by RAPHAËL BRUNEL, 2009 via We Find Wildness.

Charles Benton

Charles Benton Work from his oeuvre. Below is an interview with HUH Magazine. “…You do a lot of installation work as well as photography, installation work is often conceptual while photographers are often formalistic. Do you consider yourself a formalist or conceptualist? I think installation is perceived as more conceptual and photography as more formal […]

Jasper Elings

Jasper Elings Work from his oeuvre. “…With sources originating from digital readymades or appropriated video, each artist modifies, redirects and redistributes the footage using a wide array of alterations, from simple editing to more detailed and complex reconstructions. The digital realm casts a dark shadow over the initial intent of images and our preconceptions of their […]

Adam Cruces

Adam Cruces Work from his oeuvre. “The conceptual interests of my current body of work have surfaced from an obsession with space-time. In earlier projects I had dealt with space and time more directly in relation to perception, by creating video installations. But recently I’ve been more intrigued with how people use their (personal) space […]

Arend deGruyter-Helfer

Arend deGruyter-Helfer Work from his oeuvre. Also check out his screensaver 3 and Untitled Window. “the two best compliments i’ve received recently, paraphrased: 1. ‘your work is really like a screensaver.’ 2. ‘it’s really nice watching you use the internet. you’re so efficient.’” – Arend deGruyter-Helfer

Steven Baldi

Steven Baldi Work from his oeuvre. “Steven Baldi’s work attempts to examine the multifaceted nature of visual language by taking on overburdened material forms of representation such as painting, 16mm film and photography, thus re-establishing meaning through process method and proximity.  Baldi utilizes cascading sign systems inherent in the photographic medium to evaluate how the […]