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ACG ART EXHIBITION > CHANGING FACES: WORK
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01. ROB HORNSTRA (The Netherlands) Untitled from the series Roots of the Rúntur..........[Iceland 2005
02. RENJA LEINO (Finland) Mobile 389: Women in Internet, from the series Absent Minds..........[Czech Republic 2005
03. THOMAS NEUMANN (Germany) The Lithuanian Rocket..........[Lithouania 2005
04. ORRI Untitled No. 8, from the series Without Work..........[Slovakia 2005
05. STEPANKA STEIN & SALIM ISSA (Czech Republic) Group of kids, Tynemouth, from the series Ordinary Living..........[U.K. 2005
06. ARTURAS VALIAUGA (Lithouania) Vladas, film maker, 10 years in The Netherlands , from the series Still Identity..........[The Netehrlands 2005
Changing Faces: WORK
ACG CULTURAL CENTER 11/10-01/12/2006
Opening on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, at 19:30
The American College of Greece - ACG Art, the Hellenic Centre for Photography and IPRN present the exhibition of contemporary photography entitled Changing Faces: WORK, on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, at 19:30.
Changing Faces: WORK presents six positions of contemporary photography on the theme of work, taken in various European countries, within the framework of the International Photography Research Network (IPRN). Through its Changing Faces programme, the IPRN contracts projects with photographers which they carry out during a residence of some weeks in a host country. The aim of Changing Faces is to encourage photographic works which are dedicated to social change and multiculturalism in an expanding Europe. Work, as the central theme of this project, is a subject which has often been taken up throughout the history of photography; a reason therefore to examine its current relevance. Subject to fundamental transformation due to structural change and globalisation, work is a theme which touches equally all the countries participating in the exchange of photographers.
Changing Faces: WORK is showing the projects carried out in 2005 by the six photographers who were selected for the first year of the Changing Faces programme by a jury in their respective host countries. With quite different photographic starting points, they sounded out the wide spectrum of what work can mean today.
The Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra put together a critical portrait of the Icelandic society during his stay at the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík, a society confronted by the increasing industrialisation of the once traditional fishing industry. In particular he focuses on the situation of youths in his photographs on the Roots of the Rúnter.
Finnish photographer Renja Leino, who was the guest of the J.E. Purkyne-University in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic, observed the behaviour of children and young adults in front of their computers - a medium which is fundamentally restructuring the world of work - for her series Absent Minds.
Thomas Neumann, a photographer from Düsseldorf, concentrated on the professional goals and wishes for the future of students in the new EU country of Lithuania . During his time at the Contemporary Art Information Centre in Vilnius he spoke with young Lithuanians. Excerpts from these conversations, juxtaposed with reproductions from advertising as expressions of collective desires, were used as part of his installation The Lithuanian Rocket.
The project sent the Icelandic photographer Orri to Dom Fotografie in Slovakia. In Without Work he developed metaphors for the situation of a country which in his view is still trying to define its position in Europe.
The short breaks from daily routine by members of the British working class in Newcastle upon Tyne were traced by the pair of Czech photographers, Stepanka Stein & Salim Issa, who were hosted by the Locus+ agency, for their series Ordinary Living.
Lastly, in his project Still Identity, the Lithuanian photographer Arturas Valiauga compares the life of Lithuanians in Holland with those of the Dutch in Lithuania; that is the life of people living in these countries because of work. As the guest of the University of Leiden and Paradox he produced a visual study which makes clear that in the end the differences cancel each other out.
Changing Faces: WORK, which was first curated at Museum Folkwang by Agnes Matthias, is now hosted at the Cultural Center of The American College of Greece (17b Ipitou Sreet, Plaka, Athens), from 11 October through 1 December 2006. The exhibition will be open Monday to Friday 11:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 11:00 - 16:00.
ROB HORNSTRA (The Netherlands) Untitled from the series Roots of the Rúntur..........[Iceland 2005
RENJA LEINO (Finland) Mobile 389: Women in Internet, from the series Absent Minds..........[Czech Republic 2005
THOMAS NEUMANN (Germany) The Lithuanian Rocket..........[Lithouania 2005
STEPANKA STEIN & SALIM ISSA (Czech Republic) Kids, Tynemouth, from the series Ordinary Living..........[U.K. 2005
ARTURAS VALIAUGA (Lithouania) Film-Maker, The Netherlands, from the series Still Identity..........[Lithouania 2005