David Bate Work from Bungled Memories Drawing on the parapraxes that Freud called ‘the psychopathology of everyday life’, the photographs record domestic objects broken by the author. ‘Bungled Memories’ challenges the assumption that the still life genre picture is purely ‘formal’ and the pictures draw attention to the social and cultural significance of the domestic field. Written captions alongside the photographs give clues to hidden (unconscious) meaning. The work also refers to fragments of paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, the French painter championed in the late C18th by Enlightenment critic, Denis Diderot." - David Bate

Cécile Hartmann Work from her oeuvre. "Life's main medium is precisely repetition. (Joseph Brodsky) Some things help to dodge the redundancy of time. Looking for exceptions is one way to caress repetition, knowing of death and madness. Finite life is only relieved by the utter monotony of infiniteness, inviting a warmer embrace of life's incurable systems. Cécile Hartmann's images witness an entropic reality with utopic aspirations, mystic overtones and undercurrents of drama. Her subjectivity is dominated by her relation to nature – romantic, political and esoteric – so the work is prone to beauty and imperfection. From the early orange manifestations in public, to the glazed ceramic weapons to the discrete figures in Japan, and finally to the these ambient renderings of nature, aesthetics and politics visibly meet. Walking into the current exhibition in the church at Chelles is like walking into a head. A dark space with large-format prints leaning against the wall and heavily spotlit, they move between evidence and interrogation. In the chapel is a film projection that uses water to mount expectation. Patterns of recognition fall in and out, despite the large format and clarity of still and moving images. Hartmann is building a loose dramatic score that conjures a world full of signposts parsed from the tension between ordinary and insidious. Lament or celebration? Hartmann is working from the politics of nature like a medium herself." - Eileen Sommerman, November 2010

Evan Stenram Work from her oeuvre. "Eva Stenram was born in Stockholm and currently lives in London where she received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. She uses image manipulation to explore photography as a medium of flux, inconstancy and transformation. In addition to creating her own photographs, Stenram often utilises found imagery in order to unsettle the original functions of familiar photographic genres. Her subjects have included pornography, CCTV, travel photography, NASA images and the family album. Photography's imaginary and fictional status is emphasised." - Eva Stenram

Shawn C Smith Work from his oeuvre. "The work is made from a process of searching for images and then comparing and contrasting, cutting out sections, sometimes creating a sheet similar to a sticker sheet of cut outs, and then collaging different high resolution photographs to create a new image. The newly composed images are then uploaded back to the internet, in hopes to be lost into the mass amount of images on the internet. The work uses and changes vernacular photography from a snap shot to a composed image." - Untitled Cereal

Pedro Reyes Work from his exhibition at LABOR. "WORK opens new headquarters and reopens its doors with a solo exhibition of Pedro Reyes (1972). Puzzle includes a series of studies in which the architecture of narrative structures combined with anthropological classification methodologies. (more…)

Alexander Lis Work From Gradient Paintings. "Creative Research is an open space for all sorts of self-initiated projects in the fields of art and design." - Alexander Lis via Triangulation Blog.

allery] Sreshta Rit Premnath Work from The Last Image. "The Last Image draws parallels between the death-drive that spurs urban development and that which fuels image making and meaning making in general, by using the figure of a property developer and builder from Bangalore, M. S. Ramaiah (1922-1997), who is said to have believed that he would die if he ever stopped building. (more…)