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Stefan Lesueur

USA

Alicia Shahaf

Argentina / Israel

Jacob Weeks

Brazil

lives and works in Berlin, Germany

My interest in space is the source of inspiration for my artistic practice. I use a variety of media, including painting, photography, and installation to communicate my observations and develop a narrative examining the ways in which time, material, and human presence effect the nature of our surroundings. In my ongoing series, Obscura, I examine the relationship between the photographer, the camera, and the space the photographer occupies. The project consists of photos I have taken while traveling, which I manipulate to create the effect of voiding the surrounding environment.

I love stories: Life stories, questions of human mental sanity boundaries, cultural identity and gender identity, memory and how them affect life stories. My family history makes me want to explore and touch an exposed nerve. Memories, words, pain, and love. The narrative of the images I create range from private to general, between the intimate and personal to political and social. My cultural space was created from the inside and from the ongoing movement – between countries and languages, and from the dialogues with creators from different artistic disciplines. Each series of works begin with an idea, when photography is a visual basis.

Who we are? Where we are going? And why? In our culture we do not like to discuss issues relating to death or even mention it even though the one thing that we all have in common is that one-day we will all die. As humans we are fearful of death and do not want to face it, in juxtaposition to this, we are also fascinated with death and like Freud agrees; we all have an‘ unconscious desire to die.’ This is a personal project and journey investigating what happens after we die? These series are exploring the journey of the body through cremations and the uncanny spaces of the chapels of rest. This project will bring us all closer and together and open up the taboo surrounding death with my photography, and push the viewer into spaces where they wouldn’ t ideally choose to be.

lives and works in Loughborough, United Kingdom

lives and works in Berkeley, CA, USA

lives and works in Lublin, Poland

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Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar, Joshua White, Nicolas Vionnet, Genevieve Favre Petroff, Sandra Hunter, MyLoan Dinh, John Moran, Marya Vyrra, Gemma Pepper, Michael Nelson, Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman, Yelena York Tonoyan, Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen.

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