Photographic sculpture

"...the clumsiest narratives are often the narratives that assume prescribed movement from A to B. "

UK artist Matthew Stone's evocative sculptures use a combination of photography and architectural techniques. He frames the human body in geometric, 3D structures; the models in his images lie poetically contorted like the languid figures in Renaissance paintings. Stone also dabbles in performance art centered around the body, finding inspiration in the political and spiritual art of the 20th-century German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys. Take a look at some images of his sculptures courtesy of…

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

Thomas Hauser is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée and completed post-graduate work at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. His work was recently exhibited at La Frontiera and the Un-Spaced gallery (Paris), the Centre d'art Image/Imatge (Orthez), and the Aperture Gallery (New York). As an architect of collective memory, he deconstructs the notion of the archive, subjecting his images to a process of degradation and abstraction. Although…

Found photos collected from flea markets and thrift stores are sewn into sculpture and wall pieces in Lisa Kokin’s meditations on identity and anonymity.

p.p.s. - Eli Craven

Repurposing photographs of childbirth.

Robert Heinecken

In the series Pseudo Documentation David DiMichele plays a game with his audience about the perception and reality of installations. You would think that the title would be a dead giveaway, but a “pseudo documentation” of what exactly? While they are presented as large-scale photographs, the scenes are actually miniature constructions of an installation created by […]