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A Festival of Choices: Sander van Wettum |
11.07.2012 |
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A Festival of Choices: Sander van Wettum
Sandberg Instituut, MFA Graduation 2012
Opening: Wednesday July 11th, 18.00 - 21.00 hrs
Until: Sunday July 15th, Thu-Su, 14-18 hrs
Special event Sunday July 15th, 15-16 hrs: drinks and walk through, with a performance by sound/visual artist Matthias König
Sander van Wettum's practice focuses on the absurdity of the everyday, which he tries to explore and capture through the use of photography. He is interested in how the ordinary can be broken into fragments, in which mundane and ordinary situations can become alienating and ambiguous. These images often balance between 'meaning' and 'meaninglessness' and therefore represent another kind of reality. With photographs taken all over the world, ranging from staged tableaux to documentary photography , an ever growing archive is formed. This archive does not have a fixed shape but is always in motion, constantly taking on new forms of categorization varying from disposable newspapers to spatial installations, video and performance collaborations. This always shifting perspective and meaning of the work is as fluent, ambiguous and absurd as the everyday itself.
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