Artists’ biographies
LINA SELANDER | Swedish innovative moving image artist. Her films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models and often focus on historic or ideological junctions, where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge. She examines relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image.
linaselander.com
PAULINE JULIER | artist and filmmaker, she explores the links that humans create with their environment through stories, rituals, knowledge and images. Her films and installations are composed of elements of diverse origins (documentary, theoretical, fictional) to restitute the complexity of our relationship to the world.
paulinejulier.com
ION GRIGORESCU | central figure of conceptual and performative art in east Europe since the early 70s. He has been working on issues of sexuality, body and politics from both a communistic and capitalist point of view, based on historical changes. He is the author of photographic series, drawings, paintings and collages, as well performances recorded on film, which concentrate on ritualized actions around his body and go beyond art, leading into a private and personal life.
gregorpodnar.com
MARIA IORIO and RAPHAËL CUOMO | investigating the conditions under which dominant historical narratives are produced and can be challenged, their hybrid cinematic forms manifest unheard voices, disregarded collective experiences, resistant subjectivities. Neglected memories are revived and new knowledges come to light, shared through a performative archival practice, translation processes and the aesthetical and political dimensions of listening.
parallelhistories.org
LOUISE CRAWFORD and STÉPHAN GUÉNEAU | franco-british duo. Their practice examines how personal and collective history and memory is represented by shifting between the realities they observe (using film, photography and other media) and the archival material they appropriate. This sampling and staging of the past to decode the present exposes at times the hidden processes of production, creating a visual database; factual, fragmentary and non-exhaustive.
crawfordgueneau.net
ANDREA DOJMI | visual artist and film director. His work is the continuous recording from a stream of consciousness using different media, ranging from sculpture, installation, and painting, to film, photography and publishing. His recurring themes are unity, multiplicity and complex systems, transformation and rebirth, individual crisis and community. His films are a fragmentary narration with a grainy aesthetic pervaded by a constant serenity that at times can reveal tragedy or enlightenment.
andreadojmi.com
SERGEJ VUTUC | originally from the former Yugoslavia, he has been engaged in the punk and skateboarding community since the mid 90’s, driven towards DIY ethics and alternative cultures. His work begins by documenting the (over)development of modern society and the privatization of public space and leads into the exploration of image, through photography and photocopy, motion and sound, human happenings such as performances, art book events and exhibitions, or book productions.
sergejvutuc.com
LUISE SCHRÖDER | visual artist working in France and Germany. In her videos, photographs and publications she deals with aspects of “history in the making” from today’s perspective. She is interested in how cultures of remembrance and commemoration are influenced and formed by political agendas, media and image production and how this affects identities and communities. She does not regard the past as a self-contained whole, but as something permanently open in direct relation to the present.
luiseschroeder.org
PETER DOWNSBROUGH | associated with major international art movements such as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry, his work spans across various mediums including sculpture, wall pieces and room pieces, books, work on paper, photography, film, and video. The work, which has affinities with architecture and typography, explores the traditional use of space and language, while criticizing power structures, e.g. urbanism, that influence social interactions and shape the landscape. Using mostly black and white and a reduced visual vocabulary such as words, lines, and geometric figures, his artistic process offers a reflection on the notions of position, framing, displacement, and interstitial spaces.
galeriezander.com
HELGA FANDERL | fascinated by the intersection of visual art and cinema, her short poetic films evoke intense and sensitive experiences of the real world. Using a small hand-held super 8 camera, she creates filmic responses to her perceptions, weaving together imagery and emotions in dense, rhythmic patterns solely through in-camera editing. She presents silent films in the form of ‘compositions’, crafting unique programs for site-specific personal projections and transforming spaces into temporary cinemas.
helgafanderl.com
CHRISTINE GEDEON | born in Aleppo and raised in the U.S., her work navigates between drawing, mapping, and experimental film, engaging with themes of memory, loss, and erasure. Through a process that intersects art and investigation, she delves into her family history in syria before the civil war, revealing stories that range from the poetic to the tragic, weaving a shared resonance from an intimate source.
christinegedeon.com