| | | |  | | | | Untitled, 2015 © Daniel Gordon / Courtesy of the Foam Collection | | | | | Loading... Works from the Foam Collection | | | | | | | | | | 14 September – 18 November 2018 | | | The exhibition will be opened on Thursday 13 September in the presence of Paul Mpagi Sepuya and some of the artists from the Foam Collection. On 14 September Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Senta Simond, who is simultaneously exhibiting her portraits at Foam, will speak about their work in the special event Beyond the Male Gaze. | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Champagne Suite, 2015 © Juno Calypso / Courtesy of the Foam Collection | | | Loading... Works from the Foam Collection | | | | | | | 14 September - 18 November 2018 | | | | In 2014, Foam presented to the public work from its own collection for the first time, in the exhibition Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection. Since then, the collection has grown from over 400 to around 550 works of art. The collection – which is focused solely on contemporary photography – is still constantly developing. Loading… Works from the Foam Collection shows a selection of the most recent additions from the last five years. It features work from 30 international photographers in a diverse exhibition that reflects Foam’s exhibition programme. From the monumental work by the French artist Naomi Goudal to experiments with negatives by the Japanese Daisuke Yokota, and from the sophisticated work of Sjoerd Knibbeler to the still lifes of the young American Daniel Gordon and the strong, colourful images by Viviane Sassen. | | | | | |  | | | | 412-9, 2015 © Awoiska van der Molen | | | | | | | Foam has been working for over ten years on its growing collection that shows the development of the medium throughout the 21st century. By spotting and presenting young talented photographers at an early stage of their careers and simultaneously adding their work to the collection, the museum ensures that its collection keeps pace with the potential and development of the young artists. In this way Foam tries to recognise and record the most recent developments of the medium as contemporaneously as possible. | | | | | |  | | | | Maldoror 6, 2014 © Jean Vincent Simonet | | | | | | | Foam’s own collection is an active and vibrant part of the museum and a true reflection of its exhibition programme. The exhibition history of Foam has been meticulously documented in installation images that show the original context in which the work was once shown to the public. The works which were then added to the collection are artefacts that hark back to exhibitions in which the artistic practice of the artist was presented to the public. Loading… looks back on these exhibitions by also including installation images in this collection presentation that remind us of the relationship that Foam has built up with the artists and their work. Loading… brings the collected works from all these exhibitions together to create an alternative context in which new insights and interrelations come about. The result is a striking contemporary exhibition with themes such as materiality, identity and conceptual approaches to landscape and environment. The artistic perspectives are extremely divergent, yet the artists share the concept that the medium of photography is seldom used to create a snapshot but rather a visual construction of reality. Loading… emphasises the most recent developments in the collection, in which the playful exploration of the medium and its boundaries is an important motivation of the makers. | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Mirror Study for Joe (_2010980), 2017 © Paul Mpagi Sepuya | | | | | | Double Enclosure | | | | 14 September – 18 November 2018 | | | Paul Mpagi Sepuya (1982, US) explores the conventions of portrait photography and the role of the studio in his work. Sepuya’s photographs often contain fragments or compilations from earlier work, which appear in the image as strips or cuttings. These are layered over the camera lens or pasted to the mirror of the studio in which he takes his photographs. Thus his images are not collages in the true sense of the word, but ingenious compositions created in front of the lens and captured in a single shot.
Sepuya’s work is rooted in homoerotic visual culture. Friends, muses and intimates from the queer community are the subject of his work. Body parts are revealed and concealed: the entire body is rarely shown. His provocative approach arouses feelings of desire, to see what is hidden. This makes his work more than a dialogue of intimate relationships between the artist and those portrayed; it is also a visual exploration of ideas surrounding representation, identity and sexuality. | | | | | |  | | | | Darkroom Mirror Study 2017 © Paul Mpagi Sepuya | | | | | | Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born 1982, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles (USA). He studied photography at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Sepuya’s work has featured in countless solo and group exhibitions, recent examples of which include Being: New Photography 2018 in the Museum of Modern Art and in Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon in the New Museum in New York. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
The exhibition was organised in collaboration with Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Team Gallery, New York / Los Angeles; and Document Gallery, Chicago.
Artist Talk
The exhibition will be opened on Thursday 13 September in the presence of the artist.
On 14 September Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Senta Simond, who is simultaneously exhibiting her portraits at Foam, will speak about their work in the special event Beyond the Male Gaze. For more info check www.foam.org
Double Enclosure, by Paul Mpagi Sepuya can be seen from 14 September – 18 November 2018 at Foam. Open daily 10am - 6pm, Thurs/Fri 10am - 9pm.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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