| | | | | | | | Empire, Choucha Camp, Tunisia, 2012 – 2014
© Samuel Gratacap / Galerie Filles du Calvaire | | | | | | | | | | 15 June – 9 September 2018 | | | | Public opening: Thursday 14 June 2018 from 5.30pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Detention center for migrants of Zawiya (Libya, December 2014) © Samuel Gratacap | | | | | | | 15 June – 9 September 2018 | | | Samuel Gratacap (1982, FR) has been following the lives of African refugees and migrants since 2007 and has then started to follow their routes around the Mediterranean Sea in reverse order.
His road is based on testimonies of migrants he has come to know and contacts he got via via. Gratacap's work is about territories of movement: the crossing of land borders, the waiting rooms for daily workers, the prison, but also the roads to a renewed identity. He goes beyond most news media and comes across deplorable conditions that reveal the economy surrounding migration - from human smuggling to slavery.
Foam presents a selection of works that Gratacap has made in the past ten years, from Lampedusa to Tunisia, Libya, and back to Europe via the Italian mainland. In an alternation of photographs, video works and audio fragments, the exhibition shows both sensitive and more conceptual reflections on the cross-links between European decision-making, economic interests and individual hopes and dreams. The work of Samuel Gratacap meets between art and photojournalism and reveals a system that maintains itself as a vicious circle from macro to micro level. | | | | | | | | | | Detention center for migrants of Zawiya (Libya, December 2014) © Samuel Gratacap | | | | | | The works in this exhibition received the support of the FNAGP, the CNAP, the agnès b. endowment fund and Olympus.
The exhibition was developed in collaboration with Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | “Brought Games To The Beach’(Water, Wall, Sea, Sky, Wave)”
from the series Recommended, 2018 © Thomas Albdorf | | | | | | | 15 June – 9 September 2018 | | | Thomas Albdorf (1982, Austria) combines classic photographic genres with modern visual techniques.
His landscapes and still-lifes are boldly aesthetical, but his use of the photographic medium is highly conceptual. Using both analogue and digital techniques, Albdorf edits photographs of perennial visual clichés found online (such as a setting sun, a mountainous landscape) after which he subjects these found photos to image recognition software and automatic image generation. The resulting image is recognisable and surrealistic at the same time. It is Albdorf’s way of critically interrogating stereotypes in our digital online visual culture.
Foam presents the first solo museum exhibition of Thomas Albdorf’s work. The artist also created new work especially for this exhibition, which will be displayed for the very first time in Foam.
Thomas Albdorf is one of the first three recipients of the fellowship recommended. This fellowship enables young image makers to produce and internationally exhibit new work. The Fellows of 2018 are Thomas Albdorf (1982, Austria), Nadja Bournonville (1983, Sweden) and Lilly Lulay (1985, Germany). | | | | | | | | | | Reflections in Merced River during Summer, 2016 © Thomas Albdorf | | | | | | recommended is a fellowship initiated by Olympus, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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