Events/Openings

'The Human Apparatus' gathers a selection of artists from various generations whose work is deeply engaged in a fundamental (re-)assessment on the nature of the photographic image and its representation. At the same time they have consequently left classical boundaries, discourses and conventions behind and align the medium's fundamentals with properties more associated with other, classical genres.

The linking aspect for all of them: 'making' an image seems to be the more appropriate term than 'taking' a photograph and in that regard 're-inventing' the medium according to a completely different societal context. Though using approaches and techniques deeply rooted in photography and it's (technical) development, when reflecting on these works one could ask: do we witness a remarkable renaissance of the medium itself or is it a photograph at all we're looking at?

The interesting aspect of 'image-making' here is the clear act of decision-making, the selection process among the myriads of possibilities. This character trait of photography is the marker that makes it possible to come to such image ideas. It is not just a ‘depiction’ of what is possible, what kind of new techniques, material and forms of display were and are feasible in the respective time. 'Random-ness' is counteracted by a clear artistic and visual approach that has a profound knowledge of the intrinsic medium, reflects it and consistently implements the therefrom gained freedom...

It's about marking a way for subjectivity against a background of overwhelming possibilities... now and then.