OCEAN OF IMAGES – NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2015

Posted on 2015-11-30

Probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality, Ocean of Images examines various ways of experiencing the world: through images that are born digitally, made with scanners or lenses in the studio or the real world, presented as still or moving pictures, distributed as zines, morphed into three-dimensional objects, or remixed online. The exhibition’s title refers to the Internet as a vortex of images, a site of piracy, and a system of networks. Ocean of Images presents bodies of work that critically redefine photography as a field of experimentation and intellectual inquiry, where digital and analog, virtual and real dimensions cross over. These artists explore contemporary photo-based culture, specifically focusing on connectivity, the circulation of images, information networks, and communication models.

Opposite – Lucas Blalock. Strawberries (fresh forever). 2014

Exhibition runs through to March 20th, 2016

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St
New York
10019

www.moma.org

  

M.I.A. – BORDERS

Posted on 2015-11-30

M.I.A. has drops a new video for new track “Borders”. The self-directed clip sees M.I.A. join a group of refugees as they climb wire fences, crowd on to tiny boats, and wade into the sea.
Borders will appear on M.I.A.’s forthcoming studio album, Matahdatah.

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BEACH SLANG – BAD ART & WEIRDO IDEAS

Posted on 2015-11-30

“Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas” appears on Beach Slang’s debut album, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, out now.

Video created by Konstantinos Psimaris and Tom Ammon.

beachslang.bandcamp.com

  

CHARON LOCKHART – MILENA

Posted on 2015-11-23

For over 20 years, Lockhart has immersed herself in the daily lives of her subjects to make films and photographs that capture human vulnerability and authenticity through studied, choreographed compositions. During the production of her celebrated 2009 film Podwórka in Poland, Lockhart was struck by nine-year-old Milena’s strong presence and involvement as a sort of impromptu director. This exhibition emerges from the collaboration and friendship that has grown between them. At the center of the exhibition is the photographic triptych Milena, Jarosław, 2013 (2014), which shows Milena, now a young woman, seated at a domestic table in three apparently successive moments. In this portrait, Milena partially obscures her face and controls her own visibility. In a parallel gesture, the photographs are placed on specially conceived architectural volumes that choreograph the visitor’s movement through the gallery’s main exhibition space. As an installation, the work paces a gradual reveal of Milena as well as the interaction between her, the camera and the viewer, exposing the multifarious act of looking that is embedded within the practice of photography

Opposite – Untitled Study (Rephotographed Snapshot #18), 2015

Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2016

neugerriemschneider
Linienstrasse 155
B-10115 Berlin
Germany

www.neugerriemschneider.com

  

JAMES CASTLE – JOHN RIDDY: OF THINGS PLACED

Posted on 2015-11-23

This exhibition brings together two bodies of work that share a pre-occupation with the framing and conception of place. James Castle and John Riddy employ very different materials and processes developed in different times and places, yet they share a subtle understanding of descriptive illusion. Whether using the simplest of media or advanced digital technology they make us aware of the subtle strangeness of the everyday, producing images where subject, process and medium are finely tuned to create self-sufficient worlds.

Opposite – John Riddy Peninsula (Ocean View 2), 2015

Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2016

Frith Street Gallery
Soho Square, 60 Frith Street
W1D 3JJ
London

www.frithstreetgallery.com