Artist Blog
Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.
JocJonJosch
May 01, 2018 - Olivier Lovey
JocJonJosch is a trio of Swiss-English-Swiss artists. Their work consists of photographs, videos, sculptures and performances. One of their particularities is to work on the concept of the collective, and especially the process of decision-making.
Their early works have a refreshing humour reminiscent of the artist Erwin Wurm and his one-minute sculptures or the so British humour of Monthy Python while their recent works are tinged with a certain melancholy.
The series Coloured Circles (2008) proposes to place characters inside coloured circles. The circles, which float in the image by anamorphosis, are staged with voluntary imperfections. A few months later, Black Holes (2009) works similarly, but the round of colour gives way to a black circle.
I focus on this series because it revolves around the same interest as my current work (Mirrors aux alouettes). Like them, the rectangle of the frame of the image within my photographs or their coloured circles function as a kind of door to another dimension or a black hole sucking the viewer. A space in space, a mise en abyme. The fact that several three-dimensional surfaces give the impression of a two-dimensional surface is in a way a definition of photography. By replaying this transformation within the image, the illusory process of photography is revealed.
http://www.jocjonjosch.com