John Devos highlighted the Art Brussels booth For a language to come in The Eye of Photography Magazine.
Lita Albuquerque (Us 1946)
In a set of 5 photo-drawings of her installation at the Pyramids in Giza in 1996, Lita Albuquerque layers graphs, symbols, honeycomb structures and a replica of the map of the stars she created in situ for her Sol Star desert performance for the Cairo Biennial, where she represented the United States and won first prize. Albuquerque is a female Land Artist known for her use of pigment in her large-scale, site specific ephemeral works. She was recently included in Groundswell – Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Light & Space exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, and held a solo show at La Patinoire that brought her Land Art indoors for the first time in Europe.
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (Fr 1968, lives & works in Paris)
In D’après nature, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil has created a series of painted postcards that overlay nostalgic iconography with unforeseen disaster. He uses found historic photographs and engravings of monuments that he manipulates to insert a record of fires that devastated the sites in subsequent years. The repetition of his process for the treatment of the various locations extends into an immersive language evoking derridean hauntology —- “time is out of joint” and an unsettling historiography of triumph and catastrophe. Auguste-Dormeuil is laureate of the Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain, a former resident of the French Academy in Rome and has exhibited at Villa Medici, MACRO, Palais de Tokyo and others.
Ken Ohara (Jp 1942, lives & works in NYC)
Using a set of strict parameters, Ken Ohara created ONE, a series of tight portraits of over 500 ordinary New Yorkers whose probing and repetitive framing trouble notions of similarity and difference, constructions of identity, and gather our simultaneous diversity and universality as humankind. Collected into a telephone-book like tome, Ohara’s indexical artist book was originally published by Tsukiji Shokan in 1970. Ohara has exhibited at MOMA, LACMA and others, and earned a Guggenheim fellowship.
Thomas Devaux (F 1980)
In Thomas Devaux’s series The Shoppers, the artist pushes photographic processes to a painterly extreme. Devaux has created a system that uses abstraction, dichroic glass and surveillance imagery to build his lauded series. Fantasized and sublimated, The Shoppers are caught in the drudgerous quotidian encounter of requisite consumption — paying for groceries. With their evanescent glow and entrancing glass, spectral, specific and yet anonymous, The Shoppers stands as an icon for all of us: relentless, largely unconscious, consumers. Devaux has recently had exhibitions and events at the Centre Pompidou, la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Louis Vuitton boutique in Paris, and his work is held in prestigious private and public collections, including that of the BNF.
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