THE IMAGE MAKERS EXPERIMENT WITH SUBTRACTION, CUTTING, ASSEMBLING AND MANIPULATION, TO GIVE SHAPE TO THE CONTEMPORARY AND NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT, PERCEIVING AND IMAGINING REALITY AND PHOTOGRAPHY.
What are we looking at? A legitimate question for those who have not stopped asking it, in an age that effortlessly modifies images, bodies and the representation of reality. We're used to Lady Gaga's chameleon-like extravagances, but the metamorphic ones of image-makers like Inez & Vinoodh, with their early and passionate experimentation with the potential of digital, do more than just add legs, distort bodies and force the boundaries of photography. They reveal deception, along with new ways of imagining reality and photography that does not aim to reproduce but to create. Constructing, continuing to use subtraction, cutting, assemblage and manipulation to shape the contemporary, with the wide spectrum of visions and experiments of the protagonists of the group show The Constructed Image at The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam. 18 Distinct voices for a chorus of curious and provocative approaches to contemporary photography, in the focus of Jasper Bode and Narda Van 't Veer, well before they founded the gallery to share them and use its space as a territory of encounter and comparison, for new associations and other perspectives. A constructed exhibition, on top of the images it hosts and this signalling that runs through them.
