KARL BLOSSFELDT
VARIATIONS

In the 1890s, Karl Blossfeldt started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature to study the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the smallest plant parts, magnified up to thirty times their natural size, are startling as the plants appear geometric and sculptural. Thematic excursions into the present, illustrating the rediscovery of Blossfeldt's motifs in design and architecture over the past twenty years, offer a contemporary perspective on the famous German photographer.

THE CINDY SHERMAN EFFECT

IDENTITY AND TRANSFORMATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART

The Cindy Sherman Effect traces the influence that Sherman's works have had and are still having on the works of younger artists.

With: MONICA BONVICINI / CANDICE BREITZ / SOPHIE CALLE / SAMUEL FOSSO / DOUGLAS GORDON / MARTINE GUTIERREZ / ELKE SILVIA KRYSTUFEK /SARAH LUCAS / MALEONN / ZANELE MUHOLI / CATHERINE OPIE / PIPILOTTI RIST / JULIAN ROSEFELDT / MARKUS SCHINWALD / EVA SCHLEGEL / TEJAL SHAH / CINDY SHERMAN / FIONA TAN / RYAN TRECARTIN / WU TSANG / GAVIN TURK / GILLIAN WEARING

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Foam Magazine #57:
IN LIMBO

IN LIMBO addresses our current state of being, suspended and in vacuum. This issue reflects on how we are experiencing the two main topics of our time — a global pandemic and social challenges — while looking at how this could be a fundamental chance to shift our questions on photography: stop asking ‘what photography is’ and start consciously talking about ‘what photography can do’ and ‘what we want photography to do’. Shortly, we are addressing the emotional limbo, the political limbo, the sudden silencing of all the background noise that put all of us still — and forced us to listen, and act.
The contributions in Foam Magazine #57 In Limbo offer written and visual reflections on these questions, while opening much needed discussions around photography’s power and responsibilities in a climate of crisis.

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