| | | | | | | | | Cosmic Chakra, 2016 © Dominic Hawgood | | | | | | | | | | 12 July - 13 October 2019 | | | | Opening Thursday 11 July from 17.30 hours onwards | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Dominic Hawgood | | | | | | | 12 July - 13 October 2019 | | | In this exhibition, titled Casting Out the Self, Hawgood visualises the effect of the drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which he personally experienced as a transfer into the digital realm. His work creates a hallucinatory effect: photographs seem to move, flat surfaces reveal hidden depths, and the perception of space turns out to be an illusion. Hawgood researches and appropriates elements of computational photography into his work, leading into intriguing site-specific installations and sculptural elements that refer to both spiritual ceremonies and the digital rituals of computer graphics. Through lighting design, Hawgood creates a unique atmosphere that transforms the exhibition space into a twilight zone between physical and digital reality. Hawgood not only pushes the boundaries of the medium of photography but also expresses a highly innovative approach to exhibition design.
In the ceremonial atmosphere of the exhibition, spirituality is endowed with digital features so that digital reality also appears to be idolised. In this way, Hawgood accurately captures the ambivalence of the digital world we live in: the magic of infinite possibilities contrasts sharply with our brief attention span, information overload, persistent distraction, loneliness and seclusion. | | | | | | | | | | CG visualisation, 2019 © Dominic Hawgood | | | | | | Since 2015, Foam presents the exhibition series Next Level, with the support of Ammodo. The series is aimed at introducing the wider public to innovative art by relatively young artists who are making radically new use of the medium of photography. After the first series in which four Dutch artists were presented Dominic Hawgood is the first international artist in the follow-up series of Next Level.
Next Level: Dominic Hawgood – Casting Out the Self is made possible by Ammodo and the Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds. Foam thanks Stichting Foam Friends and Foam Fund for their generous support of this exhibition.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Room 1, 2019 © Kévin Bray | | | | | | | 12 July – 13 October 2019 | | | There is likely no other artist who mixes and matches more than Kévin Bray (France, 1989). Trained as a graphic designer at L’Ésaab (Nevers, France), then attached to the Design Department of the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and now a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), he moves with ease across the boundaries of various disciplines. His work is a hybrid of techniques, motifs and formal languages in which he brings together painting, graphic design, sculpture, video, 3D-photography and sound design.
By investigating the particularities of a medium, and then stretching the visual codes, creative possibilities open up and give space to the unpredictable and otherworldly forms that are so characteristic of Bray. His work contains many art historical references but is equally apocalyptic, as if it were a backdrop for a science fiction story. | | | | | | | | | | | Attached to it, 2019 © Kévin Bray | | | | | | You are invited to join the public opening of Foam 3h: Kévin Bray – Morpher III, on Thursday 11 July, from 17.30 hrs onwards in the presence of the artist. On the same evening Next Level: Dominic Hawgood – Casting Out The Self will open.
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This exhibition is made possible with support of the Van Bijlevelt Foundation.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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