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Andy Sewell | Known and Strange Things Pass

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“Known and Strange Things Pass is about the deep and complex entanglement of technology with contemporary life. It’s about the immediacy of touch and the commonplace miracle of action at a distance; the porosity of the boundaries that hold things apart, and the fragility of the bonds that lock them together.“

– Eugenie Shinkle, 1000 Words Magazine

The transatlantic communications link between Great Britain and North America, the thin fiber optic lines of the deep-sea cable through which most of our daily data communication flows, and the places where these cables make landfall on both sides of the Atlantic, become threads in a web of analogies in the new work of British photographer Andy Sewell. “Looking at these vast unknowable entities – the ocean and the internet – we sense their strangeness. We can understand each conceptually but can only ever see or bump into small bits of them.”

The series combines technology studies and landscape images taken along the English and American coasts, it is edited in repetitive sequences and becomes an analogy of our modern life: “Things in different spatial or temporal phases intertwine and coexist. Worlds we think of as separate bleed into each other – the near and the distant, the ocean and the internet, the physical and the virtual, what we think of as the natural with the cultural and the technological.”

Andy Sewell continues in saying: “Many of the problems we face now seem linked to ways of describing the world that insists on rigid boundaries and fixed identities. The work explores the entanglement we find if we look beyond these assumptions and go in search of connection, in search of lines that communicate between here and there, between surface and the deep.”

Andy Sewell, born 1978, lives and works in London. His work is exhibited internationally and can be found in important collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Columbia University Art Collection, New York or the MAST Foundation, Bologna. His first book, “The Heath”, received the International Photobook Award in 2012. The book accompanying this exhibition, “Known and Strange Things Pass”, is published by Skinnerbox.

 

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Andrea Grützner | Erbgericht – Neue Räume

Erbgericht, Untitled 18, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 18, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 19, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 19, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 20, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 20, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 21, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 21, 2018, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 22, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 22, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 23, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 23, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 24, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 24, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 25, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 25, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 26, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 26, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 27, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 27, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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Erbgericht, Untitled 28, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
Erbgericht, Untitled 28, 2020, 149 x 100 cm (also available in 81 x 60 cm), Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP's (5 + 2 AP's)
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For over a hundred years “Erbgericht” is a county inn, a guesthouse in rural Saxony, in a village called Polenz. Andrea Grützner, born 1984 in Pirna, spent her early childhood nearby and tells of a big old house “full of nooks and crannies, whose corners and objects have the memories of generations attached to them. It’s a collage of material built over generations!”.
The images of her series “Erbgericht”, taken in one analog shot, are studies of these corners and objects. Through the use of color flash and the creation of strong shadow lines, the interiors look alienated and transformed. “Shadows are traces and marks that have a direct relation to the object, but through the projection, it can appear twice as big or transformed and changed. Shadows take on their own lives” and thus, says Andrea Grützner, they work a lot like memories.

Five years ago, in spring 2016, the gallery presented the first works from the highly acclaimed series. During the last three years, while Andrea Grützner worked on other projects, completed a Bauhaus residency, accepted several teaching positions and exhibited intensively internationally, several new pictures were taken at “Erbgericht” and the gallery is happy to now be able to show these “new rooms”.

Robert Voit The Alphabet of New Plants

Archive Berlin 2018 - 2010

Ron Jude Lick Creek Line
Orri Interiors
jedentag Fotografische Alltagsbeobachtungen von Andy Sewell, Peter Puklus und Peter de Ru
SCHWARZWEISS Zeitgenössische Positionen in der Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie
2007
Okko Oinonen On Top of The Iceberg. Intellectual Exiles
fotoform Deutsche Fotografie der 50er Jahre
Enver Hirsch Menschen Tiere Sensationen
2006
Andy Scholz Fotografie 2002-2006
Wolf Böwig Fotoarbeiten 1995-2005
2004
Michael Melcer Milch and Hering Jewish Food Shops in New York

Archive Hamburg 2018 - 2004

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