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Anna Vogel: Continents and Stories
Keteleer Gallery is very pleased to introduce Continents and Stories, the first solo exhibition by Anna Vogel (掳1981. Herdecke, Germany) with the gallery. The exhibition consists of an entirely new series of photographic works. Vogel studied at the Kunstakademie D眉sseldorf in Germany where she was taught by famous photographers Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Christopher Williams. She subsequently succeeded in developing her own, minimalist style in which she manipulates photographs she made or found through a combination of digital and manual interventions. Vogel always completely appropriates the image, be it by very minimal interventions like a few scratches on the surfaces or by making a complex collage in which she joins meticulously selected and altered images in a new poetic, even somewhat musical, composition.
A recurring element in Vogel鈥檚 oeuvre are her hand-drawn 鈥榲ibrating鈥� ink lines which she repeats over and over with the help of special rulers until a pattern is formed reminiscent of the waves of stone layers in ancient rocks or the registrations on a heart monitor and which create a layer of noise which purposely blurs the image underneath. After all, interpreting something is never neutral and Vogel鈥檚 work is an overt confession of this. A few aberrations here and there reveal the human labour behind what appears to be a computer-generated monotonous pattern: a time-consuming process based on patience, dedication but also modesty鈥ogel never leaves an overtly expressive touch, her works seem to be more about human subjectivity in general than about herself, a refreshing attitude in today鈥檚 identity-obsessed society.
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Keteleer Gallery is very pleased to introduce Continents and Stories, the first solo exhibition by Anna Vogel (掳1981. Herdecke, Germany) with the gallery. The exhibition consists of an entirely new series of photographic works. Vogel studied at the Kunstakademie D眉sseldorf in Germany where she was taught by famous photographers Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Christopher Williams. She subsequently succeeded in developing her own, minimalist style in which she manipulates photographs she made or found through a combination of digital and manual interventions. Vogel always completely appropriates the image, be it by very minimal interventions like a few scratches on the surfaces or by making a complex collage in which she joins meticulously selected and altered images in a new poetic, even somewhat musical, composition.
A recurring element in Vogel鈥檚 oeuvre are her hand-drawn 鈥榲ibrating鈥� ink lines which she repeats over and over with the help of special rulers until a pattern is formed reminiscent of the waves of stone layers in ancient rocks or the registrations on a heart monitor and which create a layer of noise which purposely blurs the image underneath. After all, interpreting something is never neutral and Vogel鈥檚 work is an overt confession of this. A few aberrations here and there reveal the human labour behind what appears to be a computer-generated monotonous pattern: a time-consuming process based on patience, dedication but also modesty鈥ogel never leaves an overtly expressive touch, her works seem to be more about human subjectivity in general than about herself, a refreshing attitude in today鈥檚 identity-obsessed society.
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