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Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Cédric Dubus - Essence A
Mar 18, 2015
When I was younger, I was making a recurring dream. I was driving a bolide at full speed and I finished my run into a wall. I'm talking about a dream, because even though I woke up in a spurt, I kept a new sensation. It took a few years to understand and I'm still not convinced of the full meaning of this dream. But now I know that it is clear of renewal, a form of reboot of my mental territory. This story echoes that dream. Essence A is a documentary fiction. Diluted by love, a biker wanders on the asphalt. Cédric Dubus
Artist Blog
The blog of Der Greif is written entirely by the artists who have been invited to doing an Artist-Feature. Every week, we have a different author.
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»A Process – Ein Prozess«
LISA LINDVAY
Mar 26, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
Lisa Lindvay | Hold Together These photographs are from an ongoing series that depicts the lives of my father, sister, and two brothers over the past five years as they take on the burden of my mother’s deteriorating mental health. This work represents an extended look at the physical and emotional currents within our home. The images are a visual representation of the internal dilemmas associated with this entropic state. The photographs expose how my mother’s health influences the condition of the space and emotional well being of my family members. This is an exploration of how individual identity is shaped and altered within our familial relationship.
PASCAL AMOYEL
Mar 25, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
Pascal Amoyel | Not All A walk with life and death at the end of winter and at the birth of spring When purple blooms everywhere along with Lenten churches and wisteria trees Some of the places and faces that make up the Southeast That’s not all. *** I really wanted to show the work of Pascal Amoyel. Here is a publishing of his work which was already on Der Greif: Levés d'Ouest (Western Surveys) Then I discovered this picture of Bobby in Savannah (slide 7). A portrait that particularly intrigues me. Curious, I asked Pascal about the project "Not All". He said he was working on a layout for an upcoming book ... Doubly curious, I wanted to know more. He sent me these images ... It starts well! I can not wait to see the book!
JULIEN BABIGEON
Mar 24, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
Julien Babigeon is a French photographer, he is part of Cascade Collective and a friend of mine. His work is a projection of several ideas, that inspires me a lot. I very much recommend the series of this dude!
Alex Cretey Systermans
Mar 23, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
Alex Cretey Systermans | Slowdown "Both freedom of choice and intelligence are constantly challenged by high standards of immediacy. Speed has now become our main environment. We don't live in a geography no more but into the world time." Paul Virilio (interviewed by Le Monde de l'Education, May 2001) Nature takes its time. And sometimes we are forced to slowdown ourselves. Slowdown is a reflection on time and thoughts about perception of time . A collection of images about slowing down, contemplation, and the (political) desire to remind us how fast we live. The series puts together pictures of vegetation (classic latin "vegetus" = "lively","fertile" or "vegetatio" = "excitation, movement") and images of constrained, stranded, prostrated livings, stopped in their deep thoughts, in their anxiety, daydreaming with a "thousand yards stare". The slow life of nature here reminds us, with this slowness, in its time scale, how much our own speed is vanity.
Ryan Duffin
Mar 22, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
RYAN DUFFIN Born 1994 in Alberta, Canada. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Kevin Griffin
Mar 21, 2015 - Cédric Dubus
Kevin Griffin | OMEY ISLAND "Last Man Standing" Omey is a tidal off the Galway coast in Connemara measuring approximately one mile square.During the mid-nineteenth century the population stood at 400 residents, today there is only one, former stuntman Pascal Whelan. I first encountered Pascal hitching a ride from Clifden back to Claddaghduff, I offered him a lift. During the brief journey we shared stories and struck up a friendship. We agreed to meet again the following day to discuss a project focussing primarily on Pascal's life. Pascal spent his working life travelling the wolrd as a stuntman appearing in movies and performing in live shows. It was at one of these live shows that a member of his stunt team tragically lost his life, this finished Pascal's career. Pascal returned to his childhood home on Omey Island where he lives today as the only full time resident.