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Our default condition is one of wanting. Often, we foolishly pander to our desire to have by attempting to get a little closer to the people, places and objects that we believe are symbolic of fulfillment, satisfaction, success and happiness. (mehr …)
UNDER THE LEAVES
2010 – ongoing
„Under the leaves, something is happening, something is growing that will not abate until they return there for good“
Under the Leaves is a work striving to change our perception of vegetation. It is imbued with reverence for the silence and constancy of trees and flora. It intends to give a presence to vegetation, to emphasize that it is living of another kind of life than ours, that we cannot fathom, unconscious, obscure. (mehr …)
We are delighted to present the fabulous work „Between Worlds“ by Polixeni Papapetrou here on Actual Colors May Vary:
In Between Worlds, Australian artist Polixeni Papapetrou has created photographs of her children and their friends dressed as animals dancing upon their own liminal world. In landscapes on the border of sea and land, forest and plain, land and air, the children perform identities other than their own, liberating them from the stereotypes that contemporary culture imposes on them. (mehr …)
Paper and Glass (2008-2011) is a collection of images made up of re-photographed photographs, from ephemeral newspaper pages to treasured family snaps.
By intervening at the surface of each original image in-frame, meanings become redirected into fragmentary, ambiguous and puzzle like interplays of perception and context. (mehr …)
Boubacar Traoré live at La Cigale, Paris/France. March 4, 2011
Photographs © Julia Schiller
Boubacar Traoré is a musician from Mali, born in 1942, also known by his nickname „Kar Kar“ meaning „The one who dribbles too much“ – according to his style of playing football. Self-taught (with a little help from his brother, who was studying music in Cuba during the 50’s) Boubacar developed a unique style that blends American Blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa’s Mande cultural region (Kassonké). (mehr …)
Joe Gasior’s project „Road Less Travelled“ follows an old route from the North to the South of England. This route is now obsolete due to the introduction of mass transit and high-speed transit routes. The intention was to catalogue a variety of waypoints along the route, to showcase that the idea of travel was not simply a means to an end. The actual act of travelling was, and still is an existential statement. (mehr …)
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‚NOT EVEN BUT ALMOST‘ (NEBA), 2008-2010 is an investigative look at the unsatisfying structures and ideals of contemporary life. Through the unconscious creation of perpetually unsatisfactory situations, certain inherent flaws in human nature are highlighted. Control and power are translated into containment and confinement. The harmonizing intent of constructed nature creates yet another spectacle. The intuited energy I find everywhere, in everything heightens my sensitivity to the cyclic, almost-understanding these conditions create. In this way, the mundane becomes the monumental.
Through this work I look to present my interpretation of the pursuit of happiness as a disguise for a larger quest for wholeness.“ (mehr …)
„Frail“ (2010 – 2011)
‘Frail’ is about those everyday moments when everything collapses. Small instants where our life changes, spins and breaks. Suspended moments in which something has just happened or is about to. Situations in which time, objects and places lose their physical nature and are full of us. Tiny fragments of life which, when put together, redefine our idea of control of ourselves and the world around us. We are vulnerable in the everyday. (mehr …)
Sequence 3 from Oliver Schneider on Vimeo. ACMV Co-Editor Oliver Schneider will take part in the „artsolut Berlin Festival“ on August 16th 2011 at Lido, Berlin. The Artsolut is a festival showcasing Berlin based artists from different genres such as music, film, art, poerty and theater. Oliver be presenting a selection of his still videos, …