Read with Us #10: Appropriating the Archive
07 am – 07 pm, 04 June – 14 Jul 2024
2nd floor, Sóng Sánh Cafe
48 Ngọc Hà, Hà Nội
From the organizer:
In the age of mass and rapid image production, many artists have turned their concern and interest to photographic archives – revisiting, paying homage to, making sense of or reimagining the past through the lens of the present. Drawing from the archives of governmental, industrial and corporate institutions; photo albums, newspapers and magazines, and even other photographers’ work, the authors of this collection re-present, reexamine, reconstruct, reappropriate and re-contextualize history. The showcase celebrates both the powers and limits of the photographic image in its temporality and plasticity, particularly in the book form that centers a sequential narrative.
List of titles:
Evidence (1977) – Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel
Soldiers: The Nineties (1999) – Wolfgang Tillmans
Until Death Do Us Part (2015) – Thomas Sauvin
Wolfgang (2016) – David Fathi
How To Do The Flowers (2018) – Ruth Van Beek
Humanise Something Free of Error (2018) – Sarah Piegay Espenon
War Primer 2 (2018) – Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin
A Hometown (2021) – Zhang Xiao
Day Sleeper (2020) – Dorothea Lange, Sam Contis
SCUMB Manifesto (2022) – Justin Kurland
The Future Without You (2023) – Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin
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