The “Focus” program brings together 34 solo and group exhibition by international photographers. Included among them is the exhibition that gave the festival its theme, Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel’s Evidence. From 1975-1977, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel selected photographs from a multitude of images that previously existed solely within the boundaries of the industrial, scientific, governmental and other institutional sources from which they were mined. The project, “Evidence”, was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was one of the first conceptual photographic works of the 1970′s to demonstrate that the meaning of a photograph is conditioned by the context and sequence in which it is seen. The resulting collection exhibits a brilliant sensibility for the absurd and a keen awareness of the complexity that the single image possesses when viewed outside its original context. Some of the photographs are hilarious, others are perplexing, but it’s in their isolation from their original context that these images take on meanings that address the confluence of industry and corporate mischief, ingenuity and pseudo-science. The work has been recognized as a precursor to subsequent postmodern strategies of photo practice.
See all Focus’s exhibitions :
http://www.formatfestival.com/exhibitions/artists/focus
• Andrea Botto KA-BOOM
• Arianna Arcara & Luca Santese Found Photos in Detroit
• Cristina De Middel Jan Mayen
• David Moore Street Portraits from Allenton Estate, Derby, 1988
• Debbie Adele Cooper If on a Winter’s Night…
• Discipula
• Edmund Clark Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
• Film and Video Umbrella A Light Shines in the Darkness
• Giorgio di Noto The Iceberg
• João Pina Condor
• Klavdij Sluban East is East
• Klaus Weidner LA-X Collection
• Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel Evidence
• Lukas Einsele The Many Moments of an M85 – Zenon‘s Arrow Retraced
• Mahtab Hussain The Commonality of Strangers
• Mishka Henner Dutch Landscapes
• Miti Ruangkritya Thai Politics #2
• Murray Ballard The Prospect of Immortality
• Natasha Caruana Love Bomb
• Nicoló Degiorgis Hidden Islam
• Phil Toledano When I Was Six
• Photocaptionist
• Regine Petersen Find A Fallen Star
• Sara-Lena Maierhofer Dear Clark
• Simon Menner Images from the Secret Stasi Archives
• Sputnik Photos
• Stéphanie Solinas Sans titre (m. Bertillon)
• The Memory Company The Photograph is Proof
• Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman Mengele’s Skull
• Tiane Doan na Champassak Looters
• Tiphanie Mall Ramsdorf1
• Werker Magazine Justice for Domestic Workers
• Yann Mingard Deposit
• Zhao Renhui A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World
FESTIVAL
Format 2015 : Evidence
March 13th to April 12th, 2015
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby DE1 3AS
UK
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