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Known for his iconic black and white images of Istanbul, Ara Güler was a multi-talented photo legend from Turkey known for his reportages documenting the world. In this episode of Foam Talks, Foam moderator Yasemin Bağcı speaks about Ara Güler’s extraordinary oeuvre with curator Claartje van Dijk and exhibition manager of the Ara Güler Museum, Tuana Pulak. Together they explore the lifework of Ara Güler, spanning over 70 years, why he identified as a visual historian, his gigantic archive and his surprising personal work that is shown to the public for the first time.
The episode ends with a ‘Photo Recipe’: a feature of our podcast where, in the spirit of Ara Güler, Tuana Pulak and Claartje van Dijk share a photographic instruction based on his practice for all the (aspiring) photographers who are listening.
Visit the exhibition Ara Güler: A Play of Light and Shadow at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam until 8 November 2023 or read about his work on our digital platform Foam Explore.
Claartje van Dijk is head of exhibitions and curator at Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam. She has curated various exhibitions including Ara Güler: A Play of Light and Shadow, Mous Lamrabat - Blessings from Mousganistan, Bebe Blanco Agterberg – Theatre of Broken Memories, Vivian Maier – Works in Color, among many others. Previously, Claartje worked at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York as Assistant Curator, Collections. Over time Claartje has been jury of different awards, including PDN: The Curator Award, Critical Mass, and the Lucie Scholarship Program for The Lucie Foundation.
Tuana Pulak (Ankara, Turkey, 1993) is the Project Development and Exhibitions Manager at the Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul. She received her B.A in Design and Management from Parsons the New School for Design, with a concentration on photography history. Tuana began her career assisting and working for leading figures in the image making industry, such as Karla Otto, Karl Templer and Fabien Baron. Upon her return to Turkey in 2017, she worked for contemporary art galleries and arts and culture platforms, leading and executing numerous exhibitions and projects. Additionally, Tuana works as a freelance writer and researcher specialising in photography. She has been a writer for Holden Luntz Gallery since 2021 and is currently based in Istanbul.
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Do you hear the whispers of the lost statue, the ancient glacier lake and the mysterious fig tree? In this episode of Foam Talks, Foam moderator Yasemin Bağcı and artists Ece Gökalp and Larissa Araz dive deeper into the concept of “non-human witnesses”. They discuss how animals, artefacts and places in nature can unveil stories of exploitation, violence and war, uncovering layers of history and memory like detectives. Both artists share how this inspires them and how they support each other in their artistic practice.
The episode ends with a ‘Photo Recipe’: a feature of our podcast where Ece Gökalp and Larissa Araz share a photographic instruction based on their practice for all the (aspiring) photographers who are listening.
Visit the exhibition After Anahit by Ece Gökalp at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam until 17 September 2023 or read about her work on our digital platform Foam Explore.
Ece Gökalp (Istanbul, 1988) is a visual artist. In her research-based practice, she experiments with different media to explore diverse possibilities inherent to photography. In doing so, she specifically employs photography as a means of perceiving geographies in different contexts. As such her works about different places and landscapes, do not only help to better understand herself, but also unveil layers of (invisible) meanings and information. Gökalp is also interested in tapping into the controversy surrounding photography, the photographic gaze and the indexicality of photography.
Larissa Araz (Istanbul, 1990) is an artist and founder of Poşe, an artist run space in Istanbul. Araz focuses on alternative histories, non-human witnesses and denied evidence and the construction of dominant ideologies through institutional knowledge production. Through personal narratives, she researches documents, archives, belongings, ruins, silences, traces, and memories that are not included in, or kept hidden from social memory. Between reality and fiction, she tries to discuss possible futures and unrevealed pasts using mythology and rituals. She uses different mediums in her practice but mainly focuses on text and image-making. -
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How do trends influence our ideals of beauty, fashion and style? In this episode of Foam Talks, curator Mirjam Kooiman discusses the rapid succession of (internet) trends, the historical rise of consumerism and commercialisation of images with artist Sara Cwynar and trend forecaster Agustina Panzoni. Together, they dive into the world of Pamcore, metacringe and continuously changing beauty standards.
The episode ends with a ‘Photo Recipe’: a new feature of our podcast where Sara Cwynar shares a photographic instruction based on her practice for all the (aspiring) photographers who are listening.
Visit the exhibition S/S 23 by Sara Cwynar at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam until 27 September 2023 or read about her work on our digital platform Foam Explore.
Sara Cwynar is a New York-based contemporary artist, who seeks to make sense of our current visual culture through photography, essayistic video works, collages, installations and books. In her studio, she collects and documents images and objects to identify the ways that these everyday materials shape our lives as we consume them. In this way, she captures the prevailing ideals and ideologies of an era.
Agustina Panzoni is a cultural researcher and trend forecaster. She has made a following by uncovering cultural narratives behind trends in the visual, fashion and technology realms through weekly video reports. While she's currently Head of Trends at the media company Death To Stock (DTS), she has also collaborated with brands such as Depop, TED, IG, Lyst and, most recently, Klarna. She also runs a popular TikTok account under the alias @ thealgorythm. -
Foam produces this special series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. Each episode focusses on one artist aiming to evoke a conversation around their approach and contextualizing it within the photography field while not forgetting the personal stories behind it. Each conversation features a special guest that offers an insight into the discourses surrounding a specific project. The series is hosted by Mirelva Berghout, curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition.
Shailoh Phillips (1979, USA) is an artist, activist, researcher, educator, hacker, and community organizer. She approaches theory as an embodied practice and teaching as a form of art. She is part of the artist group Tools for Action and currently working on a practice-based PhD on the intersections between protest, performance and photography. Originally trained in philosophy and cultural anthropology, she abandoned an academic career to work in the cultural sector, mainly for museums, public television, artist-run spaces and online platforms.
Kata Geibl (1989, Budapest) is a photographer living and working in Budapest, Hungary. Her work is mainly focused on global issues, capitalism, the Anthropocene, and the ambiguities of the photographic medium. Coming from a background in Liberal Arts has informed the way she creates her projects. Drawing concepts from Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Geibl steps in with metaphorical images to fill in the gaps where words fall short. Geibl’s long-standing interest in photography’s ambiguity — how we are trained to treat photographs as evidence while also approaching them with intense suspicion – is palpable throughout her practice. Harnessing this tension, she presents us with the implications of a very real phenomenon without adhering to straight documentary methods that habitually signal truth. Instead, she mixes genres to produce her visual universe — a commentary on our relationship to photography as much as the implications of capitalism.
Concept: Amelie Schüle & Mirelva Berghout
Production: Nordin Janssen
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Foam produces this special series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. Each episode focusses on one artist aiming to evoke a conversation around their approach and contextualizing it within the photography field while not forgetting the personal stories behind it. Each conversation features a special guest that offers an insight into the discourses surrounding a specific project. The series is hosted by Mirelva Berghout, curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition.
Barbara Gregov is a writer and curator interested in feminism, girlhood, and queerness in popular culture and contemporary art. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and has substantial experience in writing and editing, as well as in coordinating, curating, and producing exhibitions, festivals, and other cultural programs. Currently, she is a member of the curatorial collective that runs the Organ Vida Photography Festival, an editor of Krilo – a feminist space for experimental writing, and a program coordinator at the LGBTIQ organization Zagreb Pride.
Born in Switzerland (1995), Pavo Marinovic is a Bosnian-Croatian photographer and visual artist who is traversing the fields of identity, conflict, and collective memory.
Through photography, video, as well as installation Pavo’s practice explores the state of territory in transit as well as generational transmission. An approach that swings between documentary and fiction allows Pavo to deconstruct and re-explore forced perspective. Pavo today works and lives between Switzerland and Paris.
Concept: Amelie Schüle & Mirelva Berghout
Production: Nordin Janssen
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Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new serie of Foam Talks, this time featured around the latest issue of Foam Magazine M/otherlands. The topic or guiding question will be the political power of images. How do they shape not only our understanding, but also our opinion of the world? Each of the episodes welcomes a guest speaker that will be in conversation with Elisa Medde, Editor in Chief of Foam Magazine.
Paris Photo will be running from the 10th until the 13th of November. The latest Foam Magazine called M/otherlands, the transnational issue can be found in the book section.
Tanja Ostojic is a Berlin-based performance and interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator, internationally renowned as a pioneer of institutional critique from the gender perspective and for her work in the field of socially and politically engaged art and art in the public space. Since 1994, she presented her work in a large number of solo and group exhibitions and festivals globally, such as Venice Biennale, Brooklyn Museum in New York, Busan Biennale in South Korea, amongst others. Tanja received numerous prizes, grants and fellowships, while her artworks are included in relevant museum collective, have a high level of theoretical reference and have been analyzed and included in numerous books, journals and anthologies.
Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in Art History, Iconology and Photographic Studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures. She has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries. She loves collaborating with educational programs as lecturer and jury member, such as KABK, ECAL, Brera Academy, Fotofilmic and many more. Next to curating paper and physical spaces, she regularly writes for Foam Magazine and various publications such as C4 Journal, Something We Africans Got, Vogue Italia / L'Uomo Vogue, YET Magazine and many artists’ books. Elisa is Editor-in-Chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, where she has based large part of her activities since 2012.
Concept: Elisa Medde and Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Yper Audio -
Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new serie of Foam Talks, this time featured around the latest issue of Foam Magazine M/otherlands. The topic or guiding question will be the political power of images. How do they shape not only our understanding, but also our opinion of the world? Each of the episodes welcomes a guest speaker that will be in conversation with Elisa Medde, Editor in Chief of Foam Magazine.
Paris Photo will be running from the 10th until the 13th of November. The latest Foam Magazine called M/otherlands, the transnational issue can be found in the book section.
Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, curator, editor, and recently appointed director of the Musée du Locle in Switzerland. Through her platform Photocaptionist she collaborates with international museums (Jeu de Paume, V&A, Kunsthalle Budapest), private collections (David Solo, Archive of Modern Conflict) festivals and fairs (Jaipur Photo, T3 Tokyo Photo Festival, Paris Photo), publishers (Spector Books, Aperture, Foam), bookstores (La Fabrica, Shakespeare and Company) and universities (University of Oxford, ECAL), among others. She holds a PhD in ‘Photo-Texts’, from London’s University of Westminster, which she is transforming into a touring exhibition, book and educational project, the Word and Image Workshop. She has won a number of residencies (Fondation Michalski, Cité internationale des arts), awards (Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book, Vienna Photo Book Dummy) and in 2016 she was included among the ‘16 female curators shaking things up’ by Artnet. Her research on women in photography was presented in multiple forms by L’Uomo Vogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 10x10 Photobooks, London Art Fair and The Photographers’ Gallery.
Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in Art History, Iconology and Photographic Studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures. She has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries. She loves collaborating with educational programs as lecturer and jury member, such as KABK, ECAL, Brera Academy, Fotofilmic and many more. Next to curating paper and physical spaces, she regularly writes for Foam Magazine and various publications such as C4 Journal, Something We Africans Got, Vogue Italia / L'Uomo Vogue, YET Magazine and many artists’ books. Elisa is Editor-in-Chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, where she has based large part of her activities since 2012.
Concept: Elisa Medde and Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
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Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new serie of Foam Talks, this time featured around the latest issue of Foam Magazine M/otherlands. The topic or guiding question will be the political power of images. How do they shape not only our understanding, but also our opinion of the world? Each of the episodes welcomes a guest speaker that will be in conversation with Elisa Medde, Editor in Chief of Foam Magazine.
Paris Photo will be running from the 10th until the 13th of November. The latest Foam Magazine called M/otherlands, the transnational issue can be found in the book section.
Taous R. Dahmani is a historian of photography, researcher and writer based between London and Marseille, France. She is currently writing a PhD on the relationship between political actions and photographic gestures. She is also content editor at The Eyes, a trustee of the Photo Oxford Festival and on the editorial board of MAI Visual Culture and Feminism. Taous is the curator of the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles.
Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in Art History, Iconology and Photographic Studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures. She has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries. She loves collaborating with educational programs as lecturer and jury member, such as KABK, ECAL, Brera Academy, Fotofilmic and many more. Next to curating paper and physical spaces, she regularly writes for Foam Magazine and various publications such as C4 Journal, Something We Africans Got, Vogue Italia / L'Uomo Vogue, YET Magazine and many artists’ books. Elisa is Editor-in-Chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, where she has based large part of her activities since 2012.
Concept: Elisa Medde and Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
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Foam produced this special series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. Each episode focusses on one artist aiming to evoke a conversation around their approach and contextualising it within the photography field while not forgetting the personal stories behind it. Each conversation features a special guest that offers an insight into the discourses surrounding a specific project. The series is hosted by Mirelva Berghout, curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition.
Marvel Harris (he/they) is a photographer born and raised in the Netherlands. His photographic work revolves around his experiences as an autistic, genderqueer, transgender person who has struggled with mental health problems for many years. While suffering from an eating disorder and depression, Marvel started capturing himself with a camera to manage emotions he could not adequately put into words. Observing his life unfold through his work, he realised how photography helps him understand his own complex identity. The resulting self-portraits are part of his ongoing long-term project entitled Inner Journey, and they aim to communicate with a raw honesty. Stemming from a personal craving to connect with the world around him, this autobiographical story, where photography and life entwine and merge, invites others to participate in his vulnerability, offering them an insight into his mind.
Hélène Selam Kleih is a writer, publisher and model primarily concerned with the politics of language and its ability to elevate the voices of those marginalised, ultimately working towards the depoliticisation of language. Her work concentrates on inter-generational trauma as a result of displacement and explores the nuances of language within mental health. She is the writer and founder of HIM + HIS, a charity and anthology exploring masculinity, men and mental health. Hélène is currently training to be a psychotherapist.
Concept: Amelie Schüle & Mirelva Berghout
Production: Nordin Janssen
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Foam celebrates Amsterdam Pride 2022 by promoting a discussion around Queer history and delving deep on its local archives. The talk features Anton Shebetko (Ukraine, 1990) and Karol Radziszewski (Poland, 1980), artists who have striven to retrace and document the lives of queer communities in Eastern Europe. Hosted by Curator Jim van Geel, they will reflect on how mediums such as photography have created a path to access previously unrecorded moments of joy, passion and defiance. They will also share how they have creatively addressed historical gaps and continue to chronicle the lives of their communities amidst erasure and exile.
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Anton Shebetko (1990, Ukraine) is an artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. He works closely with LGBTQ-related topics, themes of memory, loss of identity, violence and the possible role of photography in it. His extended research deals with forgotten queer history of his native Ukraine, politics of erasure queer people from national memory and their invisibility in the present day.
Karol Radziszewski (1980, Poland) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2004, he is now publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine and founder of the Queer Archives Institute. His multidisciplinary research, as well as his archive-based methodology, crosses multiple cultural, historical, religious, social and gender references.
Jim van Geel is Coordinator Public Program at the Rijksacademie and Curator of Public Program at the the young design museum in Den Bosch. Previously he worked as Curator of Public Program at ILHIA LGBTI Heritage, Europe’s Largest LGBTQI+ archive based in Amsterdam.
Concept: Amelie Schüle & Valeria Posada
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions -
Foam is celebrating a special anniversary: the talent issue of Foam Magazine is turning 15 years old. To put a spot light onto Foam Talents as well as the people behind Foam Magazine, Foam Talks invited editors Elisa Medde, Katy Hundertmark and Henri Badaröh to be part of a mini-series. Each selects one artist from past Foam Talent editions they would like to into conversation with. Together they will dive into the artists current practice, hopes for the future and reflect on the impact the Foam Talent selection had on their careers.
The final episode welcomes Henri Badaröh, assistant editor, and Alice Quaresma who was selected as a Foam Talent in 2014 with her series Roots. Formally trained as a painter, Alice has been experimenting with materials and media that allow her photographs to be sensorial and playful, pushing the boundaries of photography as a descriptive medium. Using snapshots from her archive and painted geometric designs, she reflects on identity and memory, stimulating the ludic quality in her images.
Concept: Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions -
Foam is celebrating a special anniversary: the talent issue of Foam Magazine is turning 15 years old. To put a spot light onto Foam Talents as well as the people behind Foam Magazine, Foam Talks invited editors Elisa Medde, Katy Hundertmark and Henri Badaröh to be part of a mini-series. Each selects one artist from past Foam Talent editions they would like to into conversation with. Together they will dive into the artists current practice, hopes for the future and reflect on the impact the Foam Talent selection had on their careers.
This second episode welcomes Elisa Medde, editor-in-chief, and Mark Dorf who was selected as a Foam Talent in 2017 with his series Transposition. Mark’s practice is influenced by human’s perceptions of and interactions with what we call “Nature”, urbanism, design, and virtual environments. As opposed to seeing these subjects as categorically separate, Dorf reveals their entanglement and integration with one another as an inclusive and lively planetary ecology.
Concept: Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions -
Foam is celebrating a special anniversary: the talent issue of Foam Magazine is turning 15 years old. To put a spot light onto Foam Talents as well as the people behind Foam Magazine, Foam Talks invited editors Elisa Medde, Katy Hundertmark and Henri Badaröh to be part of a mini-series. Each selects one artist from past Foam Talent editions they would like to into conversation with. Together they will dive into the artists current practice, hopes for the future and reflect on the impact the Foam Talent selection had on their careers.
This first episode welcomes Katy Hundertmark, assistant editor, and Ana Vallejo who was selected as a Foam Talent in 2021 with the series Neuromatic. With a background in biology, Ana's work emerges at the intersection of art and science. Ana is interested in the effects of trauma on emotions and perception. Her projects are research based and invite chance, experimentation and collaboration highlighting the importance of social bonding in marginal spaces.
Concept: Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions -
Foam Talks welcomes Ana Nunez Rodrigues and Isadora Romero, whose work traces personal and global stories around one specific vegetable: the potato. When we learn about the histories and ancestral knowledge connected to agriculture, it stimulates us to care about how our food grows. It is important to address this on Earth Day because of the inherent link between agriculture and climate change.
Nunez Rodriguez’s Cooking Potato Stories consists of local ‘potato stories’ that she collected across the world. Through these, she explores how food and agriculture connect to colonial legacies and how they need to be viewed in a wider context of political, social, and emotional relationships. In a similar approach, Romero explores the forgotten memory of the land and crops of her ancestral home, the village of Une, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Her project Blood is a Seed (La Sangre Es Una Semilla) centres around different generations of small farmers. Her grandfather and great-grandmother, who were "seed guardians" and cultivated several potato varieties.
Together with host Amelie Schüle, curator and head of public practice at Foam, the two will address the importance of storytelling as a form of resistance and the social dimensions of agriculture.
Concept: Amelie Schüle
Production: Nordin Janssen
Mastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions -
This is a new series by Foam Talks featuring a selection of artist, curators, and writers connected to Kısmet. Kısmet is a multi-year project is organised by Studio Polat and Foam with a focus on Turkish visual culture through research, outreach, and exhibitions.
The first instalment of the series welcomes photographer Cemre Yeşil. Her long-term work ‘Double Portrait’ is currently exhibited at Maqam, a creative space located in Amsterdam West. The project examines the relationship between mother and child through different lenses. It deals with topics such as identity, loss, and memory. The exhibition is Kısmet’s first public presentation.
In this episode, Cemre will be in dialogue with Ahmet Polat, director of Studio Polat and co-curator of Kısmet. Through his photography and fieldwork, Ahmet Polat aspires to build bridges between different cultures, identities, and histories. Together, they reflect on their professional connection, Cemre’s extended artistic practice and the Turkish photography scene.
Concept: Amelie Schule
Production: Nordin Janssen
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In Jonathas de Andrade's work (1982, Brazil), performance occupies a key role. His inquiry into the social and political realities of northeastern Brazil has underlined the power of bodies to store and transmit information through their gestures and actions. Only belatedly considered forms of knowledge, nonverbal practices have been historically important in preserving and contesting norms in the Americas.
In conversation with Diana Taylor (1950, MX/US), performance scholar, Jonathas gives us an insight into his creative process, his work with different communities in Brazil and the way their embodied practices have led him to understand better and intervene his present reality.
Diana Taylor is professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is also the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a leading organization in the promotion of performance research, preservation, and circulation in the Americas for the last twenty years.
Concept: Valeria Posada Villada
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Foam Talks anniversary episode Rewind takes a moment to look back at the year in photography. A selection of Foam’s past collaborators highlights memorable moments of the last year, artist that have inspired them and share some of the personal insides they have gained. Guest speakers are artist-archivist Angela N. Carroll; writer, creative director and podcaster Gem Fletcher; artists Lisandro Suriel and Tommy Kha. The episode is hosted by Katy Hundertmark, Editor at Foam Magazine and Amelie Schüle, Interim Head of Projects at Foam.If you want to listen to a specific speaker these are the interview timings:1:30 Lisandro Suriel19:12 Angela N Carroll41:17 Tommy Kha57:27 Gem FletcherConcept: Amelie SchüleProduction: Nordin JanssenMastering & Mixing: Andersen Audio Productions
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Twenty years ago 9/11 took place, leading the United States to announce its 'War on Terror' and involving Iraq in an ongoing conflict. This war was deemed as the first 'smartphone war' due to the introduction of the smartphone as an object of mass consumption in 2007. The widespread use of digital cameras enabled millions of users to capture the conflict from angles which had previously been out of sight. What formerly had been the domain of photojournalists and governmental agencies, became a limitless stream of images shared on the internet. This gave digital media a vital role in portraying the confrontation's countless layers.
In this podcast, curator Mirjam Kooiman engages in a conversation with artists Alexandra Rose Howland (b. 1990, US/UK) and Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966, IQ/US). Through their distinctive artistic practices, they reflect on the role of remote-access technology, social media and online and offline participation in the Iraqi conflict from opposite sides of the spectrum.
Concept: Mirjam Kooiman and Valeria Posada Villada
Production: Nordin Janssen
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New media techniques like 3D rendering and artificial intelligence are pushing the boundaries of contemporary photography. By not making a distinction between real and generated images Simon Lehner (1996, DE) and Victoria Pidust (1992, UA) question our perception of reality. With Shoair Malvian, director of Photoworks and curator of Paris Photo Curiosa sector, the two artists speak about how they are pushing photography outside the frame.
Simon Lehner’s work is based on personal experiences. Its documentary core explores contemporary issues, social structures, psychology and its relation to current human and social developments through direct and embedded observation. The series uses fundamental elements and physical gestures of image-making as an analogy to the control that trauma can exercise over memories and self-perception. His project ‘’The Mind is a Voice, the Voice is Blind’’ presents a digital reconstruction of Simon Lehner’s childhood memories. The artist sought to relive his childhood traumas, creating 3D-renders of people and places of his past. In this way, Lehner compares the process of digital post-production to the constant unconscious reconfiguration of our own personal memories.
With her hyperrealist, layered panoramas, Victoria Pidust takes us into a visual maze where our perception is stirred up. The artist adapts generative aesthetic and concrete art to her artistic practice thereby transforming photography's traditional purpose of depicting reality into a creative endeavour. In her hybrid baroque-like works, analogue and digital images unite subjective and generative photography. Based on photogrammetry, her expressive digital photographic works are produced through human consciousness and artificial intelligence and describe the path from 2D to 3D.
Together, Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new season of the podcast series Foam Talks: Talent Edition. This series presents eight talented image-makers from both the fair's Curiosa Sector and Foam Talent 2021. Each of the episodes welcomes two photographers, one of each organisations' talent programme. Brought together by a common theme and approach, the photographers speak about their projects and motivations, as well as the challenges they encounter.
Not to miss the works of the artists, please visit the digital exhibition at Talent.foam.org and the work at the Curiosa sector of Paris Photo.
Concept: Amelie Schüle and Hinde Heast
Production: Nordin Janssen
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“The body is an archive. It remembers everything – even the things that the head forgets.” Visual artist-performers Heather Agyepong (UK) and John Yuyi (TW, 1991) explore their own bodies as a vessel for personal and collective (hi)stories. Their work begs the question of how photography can be, and has been, used to perform a gendered and racialised persona. Through performance and self-portraiture, the artists unearth new ways to engage the body as both a target and an instrument of visual activism. Together with Hinde Haest, curator of Foam Talent Digital 2021, the artists go into conversation about their respective processes and the challenges they face.
Heather Agyepong uses lens-based practices and performance to explore collective wellbeing, activism, the African diaspora and the archive. The lead character of one of Agyepong’s recent projects ‘Wish You Were Here’ is the celebrated African-American vaudeville performer Aida Overton Walker. She was known as the Queen of the Cake Walk, a dance craze that swept the United States and Europe in the early 1900s. By personifying the figure of Overton Walker, Heather Agyepong reimagined her story as one of (black, female) agency instead of oppression.
The work of Yuyi John explores her own body as a malleable object and a product of consumer culture. Through social media, stickers and other lowbrow means of mass-communication she seeks experimental new forms to ‘brand’ her own feminity. With this, John formulates a newfound understanding of what individuality means in the context of millennial culture and the both liberating and oppressive social media landscape. The artist constructs a raw, unapologetic, often jarring and seemingly nonsensical interpretation of her own mediated identity.
Together, Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new season of the podcast series Foam Talks: Talent Edition. This series presents eight talented image-makers from both the fair's Curiosa Sector and Foam Talent 2021. Each of the episodes welcomes two photographers, one of each organisations' talent programme. Brought together by a common theme and approach, the photographers speak about their projects and motivations, as well as the challenges they encounter.
Not to miss the works of the artists, please visit the digital exhibition at Talent.foam.org and the work at the Curiosa sector of Paris Photo.
Concept: Amelie Schüle & Hinde Heast
Production: Nordin Janssen
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