DREAM DIVERS exhibition - Lookout Gallery - Warsaw, Poland - Photographie au Féminin, des femmes photographes - Photography in the Feminine, womens photographers

7 avril 2012 6 07 /04 /avril /2012 11:22

DREAM DIVERS

14.04 – 31.05.2012

opening: 13.04 at 7 p.m.

Lookout Gallery

Puławska 41/ 22

02-508 Warsaw, Poland

Artists: Sarah Wilmer (USA), Alexander Binder (Germany), Julian Paluszkiewicz (Poland)

Exhibition curator: Katarzyna Majak

Poławiacze snów to pierwsza wystawa w Lookout Gallery – nowej galerii fotografii w Warszawie – gdzie zaprezentowane zostaną projekty trzech młodych artystów, którzy zdążyli już zdobyć międzynarodowy rozgłos – Sary Wilmer ze Stanów Zjednoczonych (fotografia), Alexandra Bindera z Niemiec (fotografia) oraz Julki Paluszkiewicz z Polski (wideo). Dla Wilmer będzie to pierwszy, a dla Bindera drugi pokaz w Polsce.

Trójkę młodych artystów łączy podobne podejście do twórczości. Zamiast odtwarzać rzeczywistość, szukają tego, co ulotne, duchowe, poruszając się między snem a jawą. Ich wizje są czasem kojące i baśniowe, innym razem mroczne i pełne niepokoju.

"Dream divers" is the first exhibition at Lookout Gallery – a newly open photo gallery in Warsaw – that will present the projects of three young artists who have already gained international recognition - Sarah Wilmer from USA (photography), Alexander Binder from Germany (photo) and Julka Paluszkiewicz from Poland (video). In case of Wilmer it will be the first, and for Binder – the second exhibition in Poland.

What those three artists have in common is a similar approach to the creative process. Instead of reconstructing reality, they explore the ephemeral and spiritual, balancing between consciousness and a dream. Their visions are sometimes soothing and fairy, other times dark and full of anxiety.
In their works nature plays an extremely important role, particularly – the semantically rich theme of the forest. The smallest detail of the visible reality can undergo a dazzling metamorphosis here, "revealing the nature more intensely than the nature does itself " (Bernd Stiegler "Images of the Photography").
The artists, as a source of inspiration - besides nature – point out surrealism, Dutch painting, movies by Dario Argento, Herzog, Polanski, Lynch and Jodorowski, and finally the occultism (Binder).

More info: www.lookoutgallery.pl

ARTISTS' BIOS:

• Sarah Wilmer

She takes the camera the way a sleeper takes to dreams; she watches a story unfurl in front of her.
She graduated from Parsons School of Design, New York (2007), where she lives and works. Awards (selection): American Photography 28 Selected (2012), American Photography 26, CHOSEN (2010), New York Photo Award Fine Art Series Nominee (2009), PDNs 30 emerging photographers (2007).
Selected solo exhibitions: Solo Show: Sarah Wilmer, Humble Arts, New York, USA (2011), New Works, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, USA (2008), Dusk for Dawn, Night to Never, Photo, Northhall Gallery, New York, USA (2006).
Group exhibitions (selection): Exquisite Corpse, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, USA (2010), Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2009), Amaranth, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2009), Helsinki Biennale, Design Museum in Helsinki, Finland (2008-2009).

1 Sarah Wilmer Untitled "Untitled", z cyklu 'I will Find You on the Beach' (2011) © Sarah Wilmer

"Flyers and Fox" z cyklu 'Grandmummy Flyers and Fox' (2008) © Sarah Wilmer

• Alexander Binder (born on Halloween night 1976 in the Black Forest/Germany).

He’s a totally self taught photographer, having never attended a photo class in his life.
His lenses are mostly self built from optical toys, old soviet cameras, prisms or plastic crap.
Selected solo exhibitions: Necromusica, Mishka NYC, New York, USA (2011), Stuotengarten, Schauraum Waschstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany (2011), Äon, GEZGallery, Stuttgart, Germany (2010).
Group exhibitions (selection): Black Thorns in the White Cube, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA (2012), Altar, Belfast Platform for the Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2011), Kłusownicy, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznan, Poland (2011), Identity Lab, Les Rencontres d’Arles/Voies Off, Arles, France (2010).
His books and zines are held in the collections of the National Art Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Salford Zine Library.

"Untitled" z cyklu “Traum” (2009) © Alexander Binder

• Julita Paluszkiewicz (1981)

Works with video, painting, drawing, photography, objects and installation.
Graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan, where in 2006 she received her diploma in easel painting and intermedia. The same year she was awarded for her movie I will call you lily-Fresh Europe at KogArt in Brussels and Budapest. In 2009/2010 she was artist-in-residence in Caochangdi in Beijing.
Selected solo exhibitions: I could not live in a treeless country, Arsenal City Gallery and New Gallery, Poznan, Poland (2011), Lift it by the spirit, Starter Gallery, Poznan, Poland (2009).
Group exhibitions (selection): Exchange of Gifts, Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (2011), Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Zelena Dvor, Zabok, Croatia (2011), Summer / Minors, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2010).

„Experience” (sample I), 2011, format 16:9 HD, czas 9min. 30 © Julita Paluszkiewicz