Participating artists:Francesco Del Conte, Johnny Lindner, Bernd Oppl, Sandra Schubert, Yuki Tawada & Fuku Fukumoto, Dora Tishmann, Stig Marlon Weston
opening hours:Tue + Fri 14:00-19:00, Wed + Thu 12:00-19:00, Sat 13:00-17:00
Venue:Fotogalerie Wien
Währinger Str. 59
1090 Wien
Partner:bmwkms
MA7 culture
Cyberlab
In the exhibition "Overnight", the artists Francesco Del Conte, Johnny Linder, Bernd Oppl, Sandra Schubert, Yuki Tawada & Fuku Fukumoto, Dora Tishmann and Stig Marlon Weston explore the phenomena of darkness and light. They explore how shadows become figures and thoughts become reality. Their works visualise ephemeral processes, the unconscious and the mysterious. Using innovative techniques in photography and film, they show light pollution, for example, or transform burnt photographs into ceramic glazes. Fiction and reality collide in this transformative space.
In the exhibition, Sandra Schubert, artistic assistant in the photography programme at the HGB, is showing photo collages and baryta prints of seascapes as well as models of marine animals and a 22-page artist's book, all from the eighteen-part work complex Night Dive. The theme of the work is the relationship between man and nature. Nature in the form of the sea is a canvas onto which fears and desires, representation or the reproduction of human ideas are projected. Animals become cultural objects. The individual images are held together by an integrated text of naive omnipotence. "The reduced black and white images appear objective and cryptic, as if from an archive of uncanny memories." (Katharina Bosse, 2023) On a formal level, the artwork deals with photographically reproduced images, their creation and distribution.
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