I participated in the exhibition “Insights” last month in Shanghai!
Insights
New Approches to Phography Since 2000
Presenting 28 artists from 8 countries
Insigts is a new photo fairs initiative which offers artists and galleries the opportunity to work with renowned curators in the context of an exhibition with a focused mission. Each edition of Insights/Shanghai & San Francisco will be curated around a specific theme of great impotence and relevance to the history and market of contemporary photography. Insights/Shanghai is committed to underlining key emerging Asian artists working with this style.
In the las decade, the photography market has seen an important move towards the production of prints which are either unique (not editioned), or which are committed to flipping photography on its head. As a result, this exhibition is dedicated to telling this key story by focusing on work which particularly stands out within this ground-breaking movement.
By working photographic papers using contemporary techniques of ten influenced by the past, these artists hark back to the very essence of the medium, by creating new rules within which to per ate. In this show, the curators have included works by household names such as Peter Beard(USA) and Helmut Newton(Germany). this was achieved in order to underline two important features which characterize this moment in the history of photography so succinctly: firstly, the production of prints which are unique – by nature of their process – and secondly, works which are unique, by default of their content.
By producing polarroids which could not be editioned, or by adding decorative layers to chromogenic and silver prints by hand, both Helmut Newton and Peter Beard created a demand within the market for works which were unique — totally unaware at the time of how this might resonate with future generations.
By thinking doubt Daguerre, who created his unique photographs using a glass-plate negative in 1833 as a starting block, Insights/Shanghai 2016 invites you to view the works of contemporary artists who are committed to being mavericks through form and content, using originality and uniqueness in the 21st Sentury a s primordial features within their practice. the link to 19th Century photographic practice is key here, for it depicts the medium’s ability to come full circle, in its almost 200 year history.
Curators:Biljana Ciric and Alexander Montague-Sparey
Assistant curator:Agustina Nin
