Opening: Friday, 25 May 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition: 26 May – 22 July 2012
C/O Berlin
The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became.
Russia is like a planet of its own.“ — Rafał Milach
Martin Cregg | The Photo Course
‘The Photo Course’ is a project which explores the environment of a Photographic Course in Dublin.
I look for the energetic ‘imprint’ from teaching and learning photography against the dead wood of the empty institutional environment.
The work is also about subtle and ephemeral micro-events which happen in the duration of a day, a week, a year, which become part of the history of the building. As we move forward we create and we construct. (mehr …)
gelitin: Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio
„The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
James Friedman | Dark Places
During my career, I have chosen projects that have required me to visit metaphorically “dark places.” Photographing 12 Nazi Concentration Camps decades after their use was a harrowing journey into places of darkness permeated, still, with the residue of evil and violence.
A specter of darkness loomed as I documented my mother’s torturous demise from having smoked more than a million cigarettes. During her last months she encouraged me to photograph her and our relationship became more gratifying because of the time spent together during those sessions. But, while we derived pleasure from collaborating on 1,029,398 Cigarettes, our enjoyment was bittersweet as we both knew her death was imminent. The photographs my mother allowed me to make are a testament to her fierce bravery that wasn’t enough to prevent her passing at 66.
The photographs from Dark Places were made with an iPhone camera in dark places — inside the pockets of my clothing. Despite being created in such prosaic sites, these pictures satisfy the need for ambiguity, mystery and symbolic darkness in my photography.
Anne Lindberg
In the installation Canto Yellow, by Anne Lindberg, the thread manages the paradox of becoming a tridimensional line, a drawing in space, while at the same time conserving the lightness of something imaginary – the lightness of an idea. Notwithstanding its undeniable physicality and space activation capability, the line has something ethereal and intangible about it. It remains in the realm of ideas.„
Catalog essay by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator of ‚Licoes da Lihna‘ at SESC Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Darek Fortas | Coal Story
The project is a result of an extensive photographic engagement with the two largest coal mining companies in the European Union located in Silesia, the most industrialised part of Poland.
Lucie & Simon | Silent World
In the Silent World project, we wanted to study and transform our world’s most symbolic metropolises into imaginary, fictional, impossible places. In our work, we always try to study and put into image the frontier between reality and the world of dreams. Our desire was to put the viewers into a puzzling and uncomfortable place, pushing him to put into question notions of time and space, but mostly our role and position towards the becoming of our world.
Tobias Zielony | Manitoba
Tonight at 8 pm, distributor MOTTO Berlin (Skalitzer Str. 68 HH, Berlin/Kreuzberg) will be hosting the book launch of „Manitoba„, Tobias Zielony’s most extensive project to date.
Tobias Zielony and Andrea Hiott will be present, the talk is moderated by Astrid Mania.
Abelardo Morell – Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura
by Abelardo Morell
„I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991. In setting up a room to make this kind of photograph, I cover all windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness.
Anthony Rush | Of other spaces
“Of other spaces” is an attempt to come to terms with the personal buried within a much wider political and historical context, an attempt to come to terms with the issue of belonging and identity on a cultural and personal level.