Collaborators 17.IX - 8.X 2013
Alicja Anna Chudzik
Birgit Zartl Cyril Berthault-Jacquier Dafydd Williams Debora Schmidt Hanan Kazma Ilil Iram Isabelle Thibeault-Jolin Jeremy Anderson Jill Auville Kim Hoxworth Mark Erickson Mihail Petkov Nóra Barabás Pierre-Henri Crave Stefanie le Pape Sébastien Redon Lévigne Zosia Krasnowolska kickstarter donors
Celia Rose Jackson, Wesley Criblear, Chantal Lee-Gan, Sus Gibson, Stefanie Renee Lindeen, Darlene Hippele, Christina Poulton, Russell J Turner, Morwenna Bell, Harry Harrold, Leighton Williams, Faye Gibson, Ulrike Smalley, Rebecca Thomas Nathan Duarte, Clare Lutwyche, Josh Williams, Marit Beer, Marcel Pommer, Naomi, Florian Schmidt, David & Karen Drake, Natalia Ossowska, Marcin Krasnowolski, Elysia Chua, Julia Schmid-Bender, Martin Suess, Pablo Heimplatz, Cyril Berthault-Jacquier, Simon Blakey, Zuzanna Tittenbrun, Mark Lawson Jones, Mark, Katrina Kirkwood, Jenny Hoskins, Birgit Zartl, Emma Daman Thomas, Richard Leach, Edward Maesen, Hari Rajaledchumy, Toralf Summchen, Darren Shields |
“collaborators” was a photo exhibition in Abertillery, Wales, featuring 18 international artists from 12 countries, through their collaborative works of art, such as diptychs, films swaps and kaleidoscopes. Most of the images were created by artists who have never met in person and collaborate via internet platforms. Some of the photographs had initially been created independently and then turned into collaborations only later; some of them were created as collaborative works of art from their conception. In some of the final images, the common themes and colours result from the concept of the artists; in some of them, like film swaps, the final image is incidental. Apart from a form of aesthetic and intellectual game between the artists, there is another level to some of the exchanges: the goal is to bridge not only the geographical distance between the countries, but also the political or cultural differences between them and to create images that are universal. The diptychs were created by digitally combining two images, either digital or analogue. The film swaps were created by one photographer shooting a roll of film, or a Polaroid image, and then sending it to a different artist without developing it, who then used the same roll of film. The resulting images are double-exposures. Kaleidoscopes are composed by different artists arranging multiple copies of their and other photographs into one square image, resembling the random but visually matching combinations of pieces of glass inside a kaleidoscope. “collaborators” was the third event organised by the*kickplate*project, made possible thanks to the donors from our Kickstarter campaign. |