Archives for posts tagged ‘control’

Conall McAteer

Conall McAteer Work from Holier Than Thou “Holier Than Thou is a series composed of edited and overlapped candid images of religious iconography taken in the context where photography is restricted or forbidden. Describable as an act to control their reproduction and veneration as the church had previously held jurisdiction over the use of the colour blue […]

Bettina Pousttchi

Bettina Pousttchi Work from Starker Staat. “The very title and alliteration of Starker Staat( Strong state) evoke ominous associations from national security to other things. This series of photographs, taken in Cologne in 2003 and first exhibited at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart that same year, presents a cinematographic sequence that reinforces these alarming associations […]

Wesley Meuris

Wesley Meuris Work from Cages (my title, his works are various cages in the series), Botanical World Archive, and Swimming Pool. “Since the nineties Wesley Meuris(*Lier,1977) has been fascinated by our relationship with architecture, and more especially by the way we convert particular patterns of thought, needs and desires into functions and codes of behaviour, […]