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how to disappear completely / THE POEMS |
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Prix Voies Off, Arles 2013 |
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Arles: Boris Eldagsen awarded the Prix Voies Off 2013
Over the last 18 years, the Voies Off Festival in Arles, France has become an international reference for the discovery of new contemporary photography.
Just announced: Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen has been awarded the Prix Voies Off for the strength of his photo work “how to disappear completely, THE POEMS”.
Eldagsen's photographs explore the limits of depiction. They utilise the external reality to paint the inner reality, that of the unconscious, archetypical and unspoken. Without excessive materials or digital effects, Eldagsen combines street with staged photography and recreates spectacular and dreamlike images. The photographic mediums of light and shade become symbolic of the spaces between, those that are inaccessible to the rational mind and compel the viewer to resort to their own memories and feelings. Beyond what is fashionable and current, Eldagsen creates alchemical connections between painting, film and theatre that defy categorisation. |
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Boris Eldagsen studied photography and conceptual art at the Art Academies of Mainz, Prague and Hyderabad, India and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz. He recently participated in a Roger Ballen masterclass.
Eldagsen's photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals such as Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Videonale Bonn, Edinburgh Art Festival, Athens Video Art Festival, Kuyre Istanbul, Media Forum Moscow, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
www.eldagsen.com |
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Boris Eldagsen is currently showing with Mike Crawford (London), Christian Kosfeld (Wiesbaden) and Xavier Nuez (Chicago) in the group show "The Night" in Cologne through 21 July 2013.
In the exhibition "The Night", Galerie Lichtblick presents four different perceptions of night. The photographers draw the viewer into backdrops of night, to inner realities of the unconscious and unspeakable, to stills of everyday life and abandoned places that show a feeling of homelessness. Their images are on the edge between document and fiction, between found and staged moments in urban spaces.
Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
www.lichtblicknet.com |
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