Should you be in Arles for the Les Rencontres, please make sure not to miss “SONGS OF THE SKY, Photography & the Cloud”, a group show curated by Kathrin Schönegg and presented by C/O Berlin.
The exhibition includes work by two gallery artists – Simon Roberts contributes the poetic cyanotypes from his series “The Celestials” and Andy Sewell shows a beautiful installation of prints from his project “Known and Strange Things Pass”. The show is installed at Monoprix, Place Lamartine!
About the exhibition:
“Thinking about photography today entails a consideration of the infrastructures that form and organize networks. Regardless of whether images are generated by surveillance cameras and satellites or consist of digitized archival material or personal vacation photographs on our smartphones and laptops, they are all saved on the cloud operated by artificial intelligence. And so, similar to the way that one hundred years ago clouds marked the beginning of abstraction in photography, the interaction of contemporary artists with the cloud reflects the twenty-first century’s visions of the future.
Curated by Dr. Kathrin Schönegg, the exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary cloud photographs that examine clouds as a motif and a
metaphor.”
It is accompanied by a beautiful catalog published by Spector Books, Leipzig.
Image: Andy Sewell‘s installation of works from the series “Known and Strange Things Pass“