Viktoria Binschtok, Marriage Is a Lie / Fried Chicken Cluster, 2015, installation view, C/O Berlin, 2015, © Viktoria Binschtok
Viktoria Binschtok, Marriage Is a Lie / Fried Chicken Cluster, 2015, installation view, C/O Berlin, 2015, © Viktoria Binschtok

with/against the flow

Contemporary Photographic Interventions

14 Nov 2019
 - 
1 Dec 2019
Lalit Kala Akademi
4 Greams Road
Chennai

New technical developments, floods of images and blurring boundaries between reality and fiction: the exhibition series with/against the flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions selected photographic positions of artists living in Germany in which new forms of visual reality are used to question our society of the spectacle. The frequently invoked flood of images in these works is both a tool and an object of investigation. Intervention in the photographic material or in the external reality thereby links the diverse positions.

#1 Viktoria Binschtok and #2 Michael Schäfer

The series starts with the artists Viktoria Binschtok and Michael Schäfer. Their works reflect the visual worlds of the media and the "Digital Turn". While Schäfer analyses news and entertainment images, Binschtok explores the new channels and ways in which images function in the digital age. By these means, they continue the increased interest in the mass media taken by the arts since the 1970s.
The constellation of the works by Viktoria Binschtok and Michael Schäfer traces an arc between self-made and independent visual forms, between present and future potentials of our visual world. Binschtok and Schäfer process media images further and shift the deliberate structures of reception. In this way, they work out the latent potential of the images. These interventions render the ready-made reality of the media visible and the looming autonomy of images emerges in a future reign of digital algorithms.

Viktoria Binschtok and Michael Schäfer are going to hold a workshop on site.

Curators

Florian Ebner has been head of the Photography Department of the Centre Pompidou in Paris since 2017. Before this, the art historian was Director of the Photographic Collection at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. In 2015, Ebner was the curator of the German Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Christin Müller is a freelance curator and author from Leipzig. In 2017, together with Florian Ebner and others, she curated the 1st Biennale for Contemporary Photography in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen.

Exhibitions worldwide

With over 20 touring exhibitions currently travelling across the globe and with its diverse event programmes on contemporary art, the ifa links the German art scene with internationally active cultural creators and forms cooperations and networks. The projects, many of which were developed in co-creation with local partners, cover the various disciplines of modern and contemporary fine arts – from current themes in architecture, photography and design to Bauhaus and monographic exhibitions such as Rosemarie Trockel or Wolfgang Tillmans. These projects generate local meeting platforms and allow international perspectives on topics of global relevance. The ifa also provides loan exhibits to interested museums.

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