Photograph © Aneta Grzeszykowska, Untitled Film Stills #3, 2006
Photograph © Ryan McGinleyAm, "Blue Falling" (Blaues Fallen), 2007
Photograph © Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs, "Wires", 2008, from: The Great Unreal
Seems familiar? We are constantly bombarded by images and information – at school, at work, in newspapers and on the web. All of these stimuli carry a multitude of underlying codes. Day in and day out, we navigate our way, more or less successfully, through a torrent of texts and images, subtle advertising messages and hard facts, official instructions and personal messages. New and long-established media alike vie for our undivided attention. What we tend to overlook is the fact that we are increasingly subject to a second, media-dominated reality in which we are no longer directly involved.
The exhibition KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes with works by Becky Beasley (GB), Thomas Galler (CH), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL), Thomas Julier (CH), Anja Manfredi (A), Ryan McGinley (USA), Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs (CH/CH), Clunie Reid (GB) and Oliver Sieber (D) quietly flags up the relationships and juxtapositions that permeate our casual, everyday navigation of parallel worlds. (Text: Fotomuseum Winterthur)
KARAOKE - Photographic Quotes, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 24.10.2009 - 07.02.2010
