Lassal – photography
After reemerging much later from my last long time assignment, than I had expected, I am thankful that my Madonna is still finding her way into the BURN.ED GARDEN exhibition in San Antonio, Texas.
I started this series – which is not listed on my website – a couple of years ago and held it rather privatly so far.
“Rachel, Monique” is the name of the present show from Sophie Calle in Paris, and focusses on work that is based on the recent death of her mother. It is located in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo, a space that connects to the neighboring Musée d’Art Moderne.
It was the first of Sophie Calle’s shows that I have ever seen, albeit having heard of some of her projects before, which I found of great interest. Shockingly enough, especially in regard to my recent experience with my father, it did not touch me at all. It was a bit too illustrative for me, not elliptical enough (for my personal taste). And it shows just how difficult it is to deal with such a subject – despite of the giraffe head, which I loved a lot.
It is certainly something I will have to chew through for my own project about my father. It is very difficult to obtain the necessary distance from the subject to balance the proximity and emotions out.
I am not trying to give a review here, just really wondering about the pitfalls of these kind of projects … But if you care to read more about this show, you might be interested in an interview Sophie Calle gave to Art in America Magazine.
I am happy to hear that my submission was chosen to be included into Slideluck Potshow Nairobi, which will start tonight, January 16, 2010.
It was a very spontaneous idea from my part to submit some work and it definitively had to do with the fact that I still have so many nice images from Kenya on my harddrives, images that I did not include into that one exhibition in the European Parliament in 2007. So I felt this was a chance to show some more work and I am glad it worked out.
Special thanks to Tony Hunt for diving into the adventure of producing a sound for me. I know it is not easy to work for someone who knows too well what s/he wants but cannot do it her-/himself – especially if you just have one day for it. I loved the outcome though – fantastic job! :)
And many thanks to the never tired Slideluck Team! Congrats to all of the participants – I wish everybody a fantastic party tonight!
Wish I could be there.
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The image above is not in the selection of work that I submitted but I had it already on the server and it belongs to the same body of work: a documentation of a cross coutry drive from Mosocho in the West of the Kenya to Nairobi. I did a lot of images during that extremely long car drive, and I do have various edits, some comprising people, some landscapes, some only showing painted fassades – some in color, some in b&w …
I am switching computers right now and backups onto external harddrives are currently running. I have about 12 of those lined up here and on the 4th from the right are the Kenya images that I submitted. If I do not forget, I might put up a little slideshow next week or so.
I just got an email with the text below … and I am thrilled!
Here is a link to the KURSK project, from which I chose some images for the submission. I asked a good friend of mine, Stephan Boden, to do the soundfile for KURSK and I think he did a tremendous job, even though my ideas for it were quite demanding.
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“Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the artists that will be part of SLIDELUCK POTSHOW Austin II on Saturday evening, November 21st at Shangri-La on East 6th Street:
Lassal * Blake Gordon * Carey Russell * Ryann Ford * Maise Crow * Sheperd Fairey * Nan Standish Blake * Eli Meir Kaplan * Carling Hale * Sarah Sudhoff * Tim Hetherington * Todd H. Williams * Leon Alesi * Casey James Wilson * Redux Pictures * Brandon Thibodeaux * Eli Reed * Matt Wright-Steel * Hillary Atiyeh * Mike Berube * Vincent Laforet * Erin Grace Trieb * Matt Conant * Sara Terry * Andrew Hetherington * Kelly Lynn James * Platon * Julia Robinson * Matt Rainwaters * Keith Wilson * Damon Winter * Amber Shields
On FotoWeekDC 2009, a Fight Club/Broken Square Media Event featuring:
– david alan harvey
– michael loyd young
– chris bickford
– a.j. wilhelm
– and selected photographs from BURN magazine:
The BURNmagazine Selections will include photographs by Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Erica McDonald, Anton Kusters, James Delano, Bob and Marina Black, Panos Skoulidas, Medford Taylor, Michael Courvoisier, Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Kyunghee Lee, Yalda, Andrew Sullivan, Lassal, Victor Ben Tzvi, Marcin Luczkowski, and many more.
opening event saturday november 7th, 7pm-1am
fight club 1250 9th st nwdc
gallery hours monday november 9 to saturday november 14th 1-6pm
curated by anthony smallwood
brokensquare@mac.com | 202-607-1495
“BURN Magazine presents an unique showing of prints by Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas, Alex & Rebecca Webb and Chris Anderson, and featuring an exquisite selection of prints by BURN emerging photographers.”
- David Alan Harvey -
BURN is curated by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey, and I am totally proud and honored to have a photograph of mine chosen by him for this exhibition.
The opening was on October 9, with a special collector’s showing on October 10 – and I heard that the gallery show will proceed to FotoWeek in Washington DC in November in slightly expanded form.
Impressions from the Exhibition at Galerie Slutzky
After two prolongations, the exhibition has now come to an end.
I would like to share some impressions with all of you. It was not very easy to make pictures of it, but I think I found a good solution to give you the look&feel.
January 24th – February 23th 2008 – March 30th 2008 – April 24th, 2008:
Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt
Frankenallee 74
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49.69.723949
Fax. +49.69.172799
Opening: January 24th 2008, 7 pm
For further information please see:
Kursk
Maria.net
And no, this is no april’s fool post! :)
The image above is a screenshot taken from the video shown at my current exhibition in Frankfurt. It includes some of the images from my original Kursk-Project. You can see it online here.
These images are NOT edited. The look&feel is the result of a broken tv-set combined with file-type changes for the video-format. It was a conscious decision not to correct the colours but to leave them as given.
It came and it went and it was a very special time with a lot of people I had not seen for a year or so. Memorable also for finding out that no matter who you meet and where, somehow you will always have common friends. The world is small, indeed.
The exhibition is now apparently going on to Spain, France and Italy. But I do not know anything specific up to this moment.
And… yes: I did in fact choose these two pictures in this article on purpose!
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