In Photo London’s Discovery section, Galerie—Peter—Sillem presents two trans-global projects by emerging young artists Alia Ali and Malte Sänger, respectively.

Booth D 18 (Discovery)

Malte Sänger, Shifting Baselines

From 2012 until 2017, Malte Sänger worked for various German film productions abroad. When the work was done, he went out and took pictures with his analogue medium format camera. Each newly gained impression seemed to let the previous one fade, so that over the years the fragmented memories finally gave way to a big whole. The images, whose locations of origin are often thousands of kilometers apart, are juxtaposed without comment. Freed from their original context, the re-arrangable and loosely bound overall structure of the pictures in this series let space and time merge.
The photographs in Malte Sänger’s series Shifting Baselines were taken in Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America and Vatican City.
Malte Sänger (b. 1987) received his diploma in 2018 from the University of Art and Design, Offenbach am Main, where he studied photography with Martin Liebscher and philosophy and aesthetics with Juliane Rebentisch. He is a 2018/19 prize winner for "Gute Aussichten - Young German Photography" and has been awarded the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography and HfG Award as well as the German Photo Book Prize in silver 2018/19.

Alia Ali, Borderland

Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. Her work blurs the lines between what we claim to be objective and subjective, illusion and reality, truth and interpretation.
In her trans-global series BORDERLAND, Alia explores cultures and conflicts through the medium of textile and the processes of making them. Her work for this series has taken her to Oaxaca, Mexico; Bokhara, Uzbekistan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Sapa, Vietnam; Kyoto, Japan; Udaipur, India; and Lagos, Nigeria.
Alia is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. She is currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts at CalTec, Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited on four continents. She has been awarded the Alice C. Cole '42 Grant of Wellesley College, LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2016 and Gold Winner in a Fine Art Category of the Tokyo International Photo Awards.