Colin Doyle

Work from his oeuvre.

“I am an artist. I make pictures of commonplace objects—a diaper, a skyscraper, dirt.

My days are spent in an image-saturated culture and a densely populated city. I often feel like I am in over my head, as if my actions, my existence, and my work are of little importance.

My pictures explore and try to come to terms with insignificance, randomness, and the perception of reality.” – Colin Doyle

Karin Lehmann

Work from lunar farside goes offspaces.

“In the beginning was an ordinary A4 sheet. It was, no one knows more and why, to a spitzkegligen form when folded. As a small umbrella-shaped object is moved a long time through my studio, always new relationships to other objects braiding. One day I built this object in the same proportions of sheet steel to 10x greater. 120 kg and larger than life had the steel object, but still light as a folded piece of paper. Now it was a place in the installation “Lunar Farside” , an abstract moonscape. As a piece of a spaceship traveling “steel” along with the moon rocks and meteorites to the Kunsthaus Langenthal, a hayloft in Habstetten and finally in the Kunsthalle Bern.

A crumpled piece of paper is often at some time during the course of his life. So it was for steel. Half a minute in the car and press while it was still hard, but now much smaller. Crumpled, folded, and now it fits in a box. After a brief stopover at Marks Blond is “steel” to travel to America to NASA and fly the next shuttle into space. Destination: graveyard orbit, the extra-terrestrial landfill. There, finally, it will lose its weight and drag on forever in zero gravity to circle around the earth.” – Karin Lehmann translated by Google.

Kori Newkirk

Work from his oeuvre.

“Newkirk’s work often explores and questions the meanings of material and how this meaning is influenced and transformed by the form that it ultimately takes. With Mayday, worn white t-shirts have been used to speak about not only the recent past but also the very real present. Located directly on the floor, the work fluctuates between desire, despair and detritus, the gestures of erasure and addition, armor and adornment, the heavens and or ‘hell’as well as the body domestic.” – via Country Club

Pavel Büchler

Work from his oeuvre.

“Büchler belongs to a generation of artists directly influenced by the discoveries of 1970s conceptual art – or, as he insists, by the creative misunderstandings that conceptual art suffered in translation to the Eastern European cultural and political context. Summing up his own practice as “making nothing happen”, he is committed to the catalytic nature of art – its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange.” – Tanya Leighton Gallery

Sebastien Verdon

Work from his oeuvre.

“The artist draws on current expectations, general paralysis, creativity and inspiration from which a great instinct for transforming the contemporary melancholy humor singular, that is neither cynical nor just absurd. A job that tends to capture the indeterminate, an aesthetic that seeks ambiguity in games of tension between the mental and physical, between reality and artifice, and hermetic readability, lucidity and innocence. His affinity with lavish photography coherence to its research around the concepts of objectivity and whether or not to capture reality. His work, particularly its celestial and stellar photographs, are an indication of a sincere dialogue and perceptive to the intangible.” – Sebastien Verdon translated via google

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Daniel Everett

Work from Conversations with a Computer.

“Contained within the operating system of Mac computers is a rudimentary electronic psychotherapist program. Meant to simulate a Rogerian therapist, it engages the participant in a cyclical conversation by taking his or her statements and roughly reconfiguring them into questions. I met with this program three times a week for a month in order to discuss my fear that I was disappearing completely. These are three stills from our conversations.” – Daniel Everett

Allora & Calzadilla

Work from Back Fire.

“The ‘Back Fire’ series are colour photographs of constellations, stars and galaxies, which have been set fire to from the back with matches. This action has generated a new space both physically and photographically. The burning of the photograph fires-back an unstable image, which has been re-photographed at precisely the moment of ignition.” – Lisson Gallery

Miriam Böhm

Work from her oeuvre.

“In her photographs, Böhm enquirers into the very nature of the art object; how it is made, perceived, and how way we derive meaning from it. She uses the act of photography as a series of iterations, taking many photographs of one object or motif, from different perspectives, and then arranging these pictures into three-dimensional arrangements. These are then re-photographed several times to make seamless images. Employing a documentary-style, Böhm uses common, almost deadpan, motifs, such as landscapes, fragments of buildings, plants, flags, or materials, including fabric, marble, and cardboard. By assembling different views into one picture, Böhm attempts to develop an image-language that functions differently than our usual way of reading a straight photographs.

With this new series of work, Böhm explores the idea of the art object as inventory. As in her previous work, the gaps between the photographs, shadows, changes in color and scale, become integral parts of the composition and of the image. Even the surfaces and fabric backgrounds, against which she photographs, become both grounds for presentation and elements within the work. Böhm’s artistic practice utilizes the conceptual techniques of re-photography and appropriation, as well as several traditional techniques usually referred to as studio practices. By analyzing all the different steps, in terms of concept, model, reference, content, form, and presence, Böhm’s proposes new ways of examining ideas of photographic representation and pictorial illusion.” – Ratio 3

Ofer Wolberger

Work from Covers

“Ofer xeroxed old, cloth-bound book covers creating a complete black and white book. by isolating each book title and removing it from its literary context, Ofer allowed the simplicity of the word, the font, and the design to reveal itself.” – i heart photograph

Justin Kemp

Work from Adding to the Internet

“My art is kind of like listening to someone speak with an English accent, because at first, it sounds kind of smart, but after a few minutes it just sounds a little funny.  Sometimes people laugh at someone with an English accent instead of laughing with them, because some people just don’t get it.” – Justin Kemp