Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ Jareh Das Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight Guo Hongwei on Seeing Patterns That Don’t Exist Sherry Paik, New York Guo Hongwei's recent watercolour paintings, showing at Chambers Fine Art in New York from 3 March, trigger pareidolia—the phenomenon of seeing random objects or patterns where they do not exist.
Reflex Amsterdam is participating in this year's edition of Unseen Amsterdam
As in previous years, the gallery is attending this edition of Unseen Amsterdam at Westergasfabriek. This year our booth features new and unseen work by Roger Ballen, Todd Hido and Daido Moriyama.
Todd Hido is showing a new work from his series 'Bright Black World', a profoundly beautiful and arresting collection of images. Since his show of this body of work at the gallery last year during the fair, Hido has continued on his exploration of the northern hemisphere in the impenetrable depths of winter. The haunting and arresting beauty of Hido's photographs is a hommage to nature in its raw state and is simultaneously charged with narrative. We are also showing a previously unpublished and unseen image from his renowned series 'House Hunting', which was especially made available by Hido for our presentation at Unseen.
As in previous years, new polaroids by Roger Ballen, which are exclusively sold through Reflex internationally, are part of our presentation. The small works, which have become a hit amongst starting out and established collectors alike, were Ballen's first foray into the world of colour, leading to a new series of colour photographs which we are also premiering at this year's edition of Unseen. The photographs, measuring 91 x 91 cm, build on Ballen's unique 'Ballenesque' world which combines photography with drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures.
Last but not least our booth includes work by Daido Moriyama, who was announced as the winner of the prestigious Hasselblad Award earlier this year. For the first time ever, we will be showing some of Moriyama's recent and unseen polaroids at the fair. Shot with the polaroid camera, the instant film embodies Moriyama's snapshot aesthetic to a point and includes several of Moriyama's usual subject matters, such as city scapes and the inhabitants of Japan.
Please email us for an overview of available polaroids by Roger Ballen or Daido Moriyama.
Additionally, a selection of publications and limited editions by Roger Ballen, Todd Hido, Daido Moriyama, David LaChapelle, Irina Ionesco, and Nobuyoshi Araki are available at our booth.
