Alexis Blake’s The hole is greater than the sum of its parts, is an installation based on recent conversations Blake had with a philosopher who used rational choice and game theory to theorize Blake’s position as an artist in the residency and her choice to choose choice as her topic of inquiry.
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De Rijke / De Rooij indulge in mise-en-scène, too: the men in Of Three Men are placed in a mosque and the building is then carefully spotlit so as to produce a beautiful composition, while the choice of the entrance to the shanty town in Bantar Gebang implies a clear decision as to what will ‘happen’ in the picture.
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Other nominees for the current Award are ‘Pretty Dutch’ at the Fries Museum, ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms: Andy Warhol’ in the Stedelijk Museum, ‘Peter Struycken’ in the Groninger Museum, ‘Tino Sehgal, a choice from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum’ and ‘Daan van Golden: Golden Years’ in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Whereas security cameras and webcams profess to show reality directly, De Rijke / De Rooij use the current obsession with ‘direct’, ‘unmediated’ images to demonstrate that there is no such thing as an image without illusion, without fiction, that images are always based on choices and are the projection planes for desires and obsessions.
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The group exhibition ‘Capricious’ presents the work of a number of young photographers – some of whom have already shown in the magazine Capricious – who are searching for an alternative way of dealing with their medium – a way that is expressed not only in their choice of subjects, but particularly in the manner in which they want to present their photography.
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The symbolism of the image Six eventually settled on is multiple: it alludes to the endless choices with which we are confronted on the ‘ladder of life’, the eleven generations that separate the current Six generation from the Jan Six of Rembrandt’s painting, and the audacious ladder-like strokes of yellow paint with which Rembrandt represented the golden brocade running the length of his subject’s red coat.
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