Objects recognized in flashes
By: edited by Matthias Michalka ; texts, Tom McDonough, Matthias Michalka, Juliane Rebentisch ; translations, Helen Ferguson, Gerrit Jackson
Contributors: Abeles, Michele; Kelm, Annette; Pryde, Josephine, 1967-; Quinlan, Eileen, 1972-; Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria)
Publisher: Mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9783902947789; 9783902947796; 9783960987321
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Exhibitions; Materialism in art
Other titles: Objects recognized in flashes :
Description: Objects Recognized in Flashes' is the title of a group exhibition focusing on surfaces of photographs, products, and bodies. The exhibition was developed by the curator in consultation with the artists Michele Abeles, Annette Kelm, Josephine Pryde, and Eileen Quinlan. It asks how our largely mediatized society deals with and relates analogue and digital images. How are relations between material and immateriality, body, screen and photographic surface constituted? In our contemporary consumer culture, products and questions of commodity aesthetics are becoming more and more significant. This is not without consequences for our use of photographic images. Ubiquitous advertising, marketing, and product presentation create imaginary visual standards that have now become a firm fixture of our self representations in photos on social media platforms. The works by the four artists in the exhibition respond both in respect to each other, and to this changing context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Mumok-Museum moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, November 16, 2019-April 13, 2020.