In 2007 Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone: A device that profoundly revolutionized everyday communication and, not least, fundamentally changed the way we deal with photographic images. Since then, people have used photographs to communicate at high speed where they are, how they feel and what they long for. However, photographs are more than just visual information carriers. They require a medium in order to appear. In smartphones, they appear to us on backlit glass panes. But this is only one of the numerous framings of photographic imagery.
Starting from the flat surface of a photograph, the exhibition presented current photographic works by students at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, showing new visual and haptic, and not least virtual, paths to the photographic image. As objects or fluid structures in space and through the choice of hybrid work forms, they touched on established photographic forms of presentation.
With works by:
Eleonora Arnold | Kara Bukowski | Linda Hafeneger | Helen Hickl | Hendrik Hinkelmann | Anjali Janssens | Marie Laforge | Katharina Ley | Wiebke Meischner | Majid Moussavi | David Müller | Asli Özcelik | Simon Ringelhan | Damian Rosellen | Samuel Solazzo | Anna Traskaliková | Julian Weigandt | Larissa Zauser