The series “FORCES” comes from a research project that brought the artists to question the phenomenon of military and armed forces. It consists of a series of photographs of fighters in unlikely or at least improbable situations: they appear in impenetrable woods, deserts, or in urban environments, impassibly parked. The photographs are playing with the viewer’s memory, they refer to familiar elements, belonging to our reality or experienced at least through the TV or t…

If you love art, meeting artists enriches your life and brings you closer to an intangible world that you yearn for, but don’t experience in your everyday life. The eternal Faustian desire to “know what holds the inner world together” lies dormant in us all and needs to be satisfied. We may not realise the dream, but we must still dream it, and each of us does so in our own way. The book and the exhibition document the quest of Luxembourgish gallerist Marita Ruiter over th…

PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG workshops lectures exhibitions June 19 - 24, 2006 information: +352 472324 subscribe to newsletter: info@photomeetings.lu Mass Media Manipulation Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and remain instantly accessible. Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what Walter Benjamin cal…