A Trip to Schengen / My one and only reader

#7 min

Do you visit art fairs or specialised photography fairs? Which ones in particular are important to you? What would you recommend to aspiring collectors to primarily pursue at these fairs?

#1 min

Sometimes, we need local elections so you can pull out the list of candidates from your mailbox and Nick Cave keeps repeating “who cares what the future brings?” and you realise that it’s really about that, since “everything is connected with everything else?” And for a moment, you too feel the fear of a “possible” future, towards which we run, urged by consumerism, market economics, and a desire for personal joy.

#1 min

In the middle of the stack of packed books was a note that read: “Why was a man born to live, what's the point if he has to die and pass into oblivion as if he had never been born?”

#1 min

The installation Weiche Knie encompasses photographs as well as material from the artist’s research in queer/feminist archives. These archives hold documentation of the historical continuity of violence in connection with institutional care as well as the first resistance movements and initiatives, e.g., self-help practices such as the 1970s feminist health centres, first-aid manuals for police violence or the early use of bidets to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

#1 min

In this series, I am documenting my family for the first time. I'm trying to name my relationship with them and with myself. I kept a diary during the making of the series where I recorded situations from the photo shoots. The description of these situations helped me to grasp the state of our relationships. My mother appears in the pictures, with whom the photo shoots were as demanding as our relationship.

#1 min

The history of my family has had a profound effect on my photographic practice. Revisiting my artistic choices and themes always brings me back to my roots, to my matriarchal family. Ever since my parents divorced, my coming-of-age world had been populated solely by women. My inner lens got focused on my mom, sisters, and grandmothers. Documenting the flux of daily routines, and touching and mundane moments has turned into an artistic study that unfolds and reveals the very nature of womanhood that shaped me as a woman.

#3 min

Sales of fine art photography have been on the rise in recent years. This poses questions: which prints make sense to buy and from which artists? How to identify work that has investment potential?

#2 min

The work of Sin Wai Kin explores storytelling as a means to interrogate binaries and create fantasy narratives, which interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Extending their ongoing project of using drag as a medium of embodied speculative fiction and drawing on personal experiences of existing beyond categories, Sin’s practice pivots around performance, moving image, writing and print to question idealised images, constructed identities and binary conceptions of consciousness.