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De construction

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:03:01 +0000

In De construction Kathi Seemann deals with the construction and deconstruction of architecture and living space, the cycle of restoration, demolition, new construction and the memories that remain. The publication is a collection of documentary photographs in digital and risographic printing. Nine loose interleaved sheets can be disassembled, rearranged and expanded.

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opus incertum

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:29:14 +0000

In opus incertum – a term borrowed from Roman masonry, which consists of building walls from small blocks, broken tiles and a variety of bricks – Daniel Wagener questions the memory of time and place, and the social and functional transformations experienced by urban buildings.
opus incertum portrays a new reality, seeks to document episodes of urban construction, uncovers what lies behind the ostentation, reveals what is no longer seen.
opus incertum is also a tribute to the collective work and commitment of those who form society during the construction process, who ensure the transmission of methods and culture, and practice oral exchange in an exemplary show of solidarity, while remaining invisible.

Published on the occasion of the Luxembourg Photography Award 2023.

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SOMEHOW, NOTHING APPEARS TO BE HAPPENING, OVDJE OR RATHER, WENT A HOLE, CRNA RUPA

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:29:37 +0000

One reoccurring theme in Vutuc’s work is the transmission of information, complete with its natural selection, alteration and deformation throughout time. Here, captured images – fragmented, curated cuts of reality – are presented to be not just explored, but challenged in their fidelity as the question of their physical density gets rivaled by the comparable weight of copies; Vutuc pairs up the seemingly static format of photocopiers, celluloid and Super 8 film and, then, projection techniques – playing with layers of surfaces and transparencies as varying vibrations also audibly resonate, life fuses with machinery through celluloid and confusion, then doubt are introduced by a duality of projectors competing for validity in their respective outputs. — Aymeric Nocus

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Making Divine

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:40:32 +0000

Oliver Leu’s zine Making Divine is based on a picture postcard from the early 20th century. Taken during festivities at the military barrack of Beverloo, this postcard depicts the re-enactment of a colonial monument during a historical play dedicated to Joseph Lippens and Henri De Bruyne, two military men who served in the Force Publique of king Leopold II’s Congo Free State during the 1890s.
In Making Divine the postcard’s motive is reproduced fragmented — shifting the reader’s attention from the apotheosis of the scene to individual actions — emphasizing details, gestures, and the body language of those enacting the De Bruyne – Lippens Monument. A monument that still stands in the Belgian seaside town of Blankenberge today.

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Saly

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:32:58 +0000

Saly explores the journey of a salamander, wandering around in the small village of St Piereville, France. It’s movements create a choreography, captured by the camera, presented in the book. This publication is handmade by the author. Printed on a risograph at So-Ri printing studio in Antwerp, in an edition of 68 copies.

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Risograph Series

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:13:42 +0000

Photography arises from a registration of light but presupposes further processing with processes that are photographic or not. Marco Jacobs combines screen printing and photography. The image can become abstract. The spectator then sees spatial relationships between planes, colours and lines, which no longer refer to the originally registered object.

Photography is born from a light recording but requires a later treatment, whether photographic or not. Marco Jacobs combines screen printing and photography. If in this process the image becomes abstract, the viewer observe space relationships between surfaces, colors and lines, which (almost) no longer refer to the original recorded object.

Photography starts from a recording of light but supposes a later processing, photographic or not. Marco Jacobs combines screen printing and photography. If in this process the image becomes abstract, the viewer observes spatial relationships between surfaces, colours and lines, which (almost) no longer refer to the object originally recorded. — Peterjan Perquy, LUCA Library Sint-Lukas

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afto

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:19:39 +0000

Aujourd’hui nous appartient. Aujourd’hui ouvre.

Afto - a small word that appears everywhere in the Greek language - deepens questions inherent in the work on quotation (such as direct speech, the writing of the other, the crossing of languages ...).
Afto - examines in word and image the concept of the "fantastic land" from a literary perspective, it is the sudden confrontation with what we are offered to see; what creates closeness. It is the natural proof that something visible, can’t be seen at all. An attempt to clarify ...

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In Belief Is Power

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 03 May 2019 12:05:05 +0000

Being a Bulgarian immigrant in Western Europe, I know how important the welcoming and friendly attitude of the local people is for the newcomers. How great my indignation was when Bulgaria, my home country, the place of origin for two million emigrants, tolerated nationalist groups to hunt down Muslim refugees who were illegally crossing E.U.’s external border with Turkey.

The articles in the Western media informing about the activities of the Bulgarian nationalists raised a lot of questions for me. I am trying to express these with the present project: what provokes one’s fear of foreigners; what is the life and history of the local population who live near the border, where different political interests intersect; what is the “Bulgarian” identity exactly made up of; how does the border region reflect what is happening across Europe; is there a “beautiful” nationalism that would help a vanishing nation preserve itself (Bulgaria is said to be the fastest disappearing nation in the world); and, finally, what connects us as people?

The title of the book is borrowed from an inscription from a small chapel in the border area, built in honor of St. Marina: “In faith is power”. I have changed it to “In belief is power” in order to address the relationship of belief not only with religion, but also with different political and economic systems, as well as the consequences of these relationships.

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Comme la proue d’un navire

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:10:03 +0000

Comme la proue d’un navire is born from a collection of snapshots being collected through methodical research on the Internet to build an archive; necessarily non-exhaustive results corresponding to the entry “pyramid“ on a search engine at a given time. This art of collecting is understood as a way of gathering what is scattered, of making an inventory of fixtures, but also as a will to ward off the ephemeral and virtual nature of these photographs.
Comme la proue d’un navire as publication is also a study, that of a shape and infinite architectural declensions to which it has given rise around the world. Through the diversity of uses, styles and contexts, there is a fascination for a simple geometrical form of the pyramid and its symbolic scope, the same craze for this figure of social or spiritual elevation. The emphasis on her, whether visual or literary, oscillates between romanticism, kitsch, megalomania and esotericism, with ever-present filigree, the persistence of the ancient.

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Mind Matter

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:27:39 +0000

Daniel Wagener’s photography involves graphic design, staging and urbanism. He focuses on objects and urban landscapes that are both familiar and transgressive to him. He documents traces accidentally left behind by people, and the absurd normality everyday life staging. In their saturated primary colors, Wagener’s photographs portray commonplace scenes that propose new approaches to reality.… Continue reading Mind Matter

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