Digital search processes as a critical methodology of photocuratorial practice.
The project "Poetics of Search" understands search processes and database structures as areas of the photographic. This text introduces search as a narrator and digital co-curator by activating the semantics of digital databases as a contemporary infrastructure of curatorial practice. At the center is the question of what possibilities arise for the orders of photographic visibility through the testing of new search methodologies.
In collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz
Afrofuturisms: Then and Now—Visions, Imaginings, Transformations
Afrofuturist art and literature help us to acknowledge the long shadows of the colonial past while directing our gaze toward a future that will brighten our present day.
Herbert List The magic Eye Bucerius Kunst Forum
Herbert List. The magic Eye. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Herbert List Estate, Hamburg
Portraits of Absentees: Mbali Dhlamini and the Aesthetics of Withdrawal
In her artistic practice Mbali Dhlamini embarks herself in an ongoing search for points of contact with precolonial identities and spirits. Her search manifests in a spectrum of experiences in painting, photography, video, and installation.
Lines of Transition: Translation as artistic process in the work of Cy Twombly
Lecture as part of symposium “Poetic translations. Conversations across the plurality of Arts disciplines in Visual Arts Exhibitions”
„Acres of mental space” – Tacita Deans gefundene Landschaften
Article for the Museum Blog of Marta Herford
Moving beyond borders in former Mesopotamia. Kerem Ozan Bayraktar & Sinem Dişlis
Excerpt from my essay for Sandstorm exhibition at Depot Istanbul, 2020
Clément Cogitore: DANCING ON THE VOLCANO KINGDOM RADICALLY UPLIFTED MIGHTY PRAISE
Excerpt from my Essay abou “Les Indes Galant” (2017) by Clément Cogitore