Magdalena Wysocka [Pl 1987] and Claudio Pogo [D 1978]
Another contemporary phenomena: artists joining up often in duo’s like Wysocka / Pogo here, sometimes joining forces in larger formations.
Known for their experimental and intuitive approach to image-making, Wysocka / Pogo work with found photography, archival material, and print-based processes to create singular works that sit between photography, painting, and object. Their practice embraces chance, error, and material transformation, stripping images of their original context and allowing new meanings to emerge through process-led exploration.
Artefacts, the brand new body of work from Berlin based artist duo Wysocka / Pogo debuting at Art Rotterdam, turns to the idea of the artefact itself: not as a stable object recovered from history, but as something far more unstable: a fragment, a trace, a distortion, a residue of human desire to know and to measure. Conventionally, an artifact is an object shaped by human hands, bearing the weight of cultural or historical meaning. Yet in photography, it is also the opposite: an unwanted mark, a glitch, a shift from clarity. Between these two definitions, the artists find their terrain.
John Devos
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