New Viewings #26
Curated by Gabriel Rolt
DEFENDER
What truly excited me about curating a digital only protect is the sense of a new found freedom. The digital realm is limitless. Together with the artists I explored the possibilities of creating a playful new set of rules: repetition, the chosen sizes of the works for the digital presentation in contrast with the actual sizes, 2d vs 3d and the implementation of film in the space.
Lisette Ros
Lisette Ros, *1991 in Amsterdam, NL,
lives and works in Amsterdam
© Lisette Ros, Nick Hackworth
„Where does my conditioning end and where does my (our) autonomy begin?
Lisette Ros’ conceptual performance work challenges the basic conventions and routine behavior that form the bonds of human society. The starting point of Ros’ work always emerges for a confrontation with herself; a constant self-reflexivity that questions and challenges the normative values that she, as we all do, have internalized from society at large, manifest in impulses towards certain routines and behaviors.
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Adam Broomberg
Adam Broomberg, *1970 in Johannesburg, South Africa,
lives and works in Berlin
These images are documentation of an exchange between Adam Broomberg and his publisher Michael Mack over the last decade. Michael would periodically send Adam books which he had published.
Adam would reroute or hijack them, working into the books with his own drawings (in squid ink and his blood), fragments of the other books, and his own photographs into them. None of the books survived and these images are records of various stages of the destruction.
Nik Christensen
Nik Christensen, *1973 in Bromley, Kent, UK,
lives and works in Amsterdam
Nature, and in particular man’s existence within it, has always been a strong focal point in his work.
Interested in the duality of destruction and resurrection and exploring the friction between the real and imaginary, he looks for new interpretations, reconfiguring that which looks familiar. The monochromatic drawings on paper are made with sumi ink, often large format. The simplicity of materials and the immediacy of working with ink allow for a certain stillness yet creates tension in its permanence.
Shezad Dawood
Shezad Dawood, *1974 in London, UK,
lives and works in London
Shezad Dawood’s Encroachments project comprising neon, wallpaper, virtual reality, sculpture and digital tapestries explores the relations between Pakistan and the US since The Partition of India in 1947.
The work is a mediation on the idea of sovereignty, private property and the politics of space in the two largest cities in Pakistan: Lahore & Karachi.
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Bertien van Manen
Bertien van Manen, *1942 in The Hague, NL,
lives and works in Amsterdam
“Through her excellent photographs and her inquiring and humanistic temperament, and with powerful artistic expression, Bertien van Manen shows what historians, writers, sociologists and political scientists argue, that there exist at least two Russias.
There is the official, imperial and external Russia, known to us from newspaper headlines, and the one within, the hidden, poor Russia of the anonymous, ordinary people of whose existence Bertien van Manen’s moving and revealing album tells.” Ryszard Kapuscinski on A Hundred summers, a hundred winters.
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