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15th March 2010 |
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This week we are delighted to bring you the work of Victoria Jenkins, who while searching for a subject for her final degree show discovered an unlikely muse: Science. There is a close relationship between science and photography. As scientific inquiry seeks to understand nature, so photography is a means of expressing and recording the world around us. Yet while each discipline suggests an empirical and objective approach to their subject they are both flawed as purveyors of "truth". Science is always an approximation of how we think things might work and as the scientist seeks to find solutions to their questions they inevitably upset the theories of the past. Photography can only be a representation of what the photographer sees within the frame of the lens, editing out the extraneous elements that don't fit with their aesthetic or journalistic endeavour. It is this very collision between fact and fiction, revelation and illusion that lies at the heart of Victoria's work "Images from the Institute of Esoteric Research", in which the surface simplicity of her images appear to show us real science, but in fact show obfuscation and trickery. |
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Victoria JenkinsAlomancy Alomancy is the process in which a diviner casts salt crystals into the air and interprets the patterns as they fall to the ground. Here Victoria has reconstructed an experiment based on that old school favourite: the electrolysis of salt water. |
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Victoria JenkinsAcutomancy Using seven pointed objects, such as pins or needles, diviners would drop them onto a table and interpret the resulting pattern. For her interpretation Victoria constructs a set of scales to show how such objects can be measured. |
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Victoria JenkinsCapnomancy For the experiment Capnomancy, in which the diviner generates a plume of smoke to see how it will disperse, cotton wool, as used by Victorian mediums to simulate ectoplasm, seemingly defies gravity as it rises out of a box. |
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We Recommend: A Positive ViewA new exhibition "A Positive View" has just opened at Somerset House, London, showcasing an extraordinary range of photography from the last 100 years. Prints from the show will be auctioned at Christie’s on 15 April, in aid of Crisis, the homelessness charity. Included in the selection is a print by Wim Wenders, which we showcased on Troika Talk last week. |
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Artist NewsJan von Holleben has a retrospective at Friedrichsbau, Germany where he is exhibiting a selection of work from the last 10 years and bringing us the delightful results of his very particular sense of humour. At the opening of his exhibition on the 19th March Jan will be launching his new book "Ho Ho Ho" which will be available from Troika Editions. This the last chance to see new work by Christine Erhard as her exhibition at Kunstverein Peschkenhaus Moers, Germany, enters its final week. Christine is also soon to publish a book, which will be available from Troika Editions in April. Now entering its final two weeks, Kurt Tong's first UK solo show at the Light House Gallery in Wolverhampton includes a selection of images from his series "Farewell in Labrador". Chosen by Fotofest in Texas as one of the International Discoveries of the Year, Kurt had an outstanding year in 2009. Winner of the Editorial Category in the Photography Now Blurb book awards for his semi autobiographical project "People's Park", his series "In Case it Rains in Heaven" was featured in both the Independent on Sunday Review and the Guardian Weekend Magazine and he was selected a second year in a row for the Foto8 Summer Show. |
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Critics Choice: Vicky Richardson picks...This month's Critic's Choice comes from Vicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council. Her choice of Isidro Ramirez's "360 Degrees" reflects her desire to challenge the "prevalent way that new buildings are photographed in architecture magazines: set against blue skies; sharp angled and pristine and often indistinguishable from the computer renderings used to sell the schemes to developers". |
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Troika Talk: Picture of the DayA Hungarian Vizsla has been crowned Best in Show at Crufts, so in celebration of a rather dog centred month we will be bringing you a selection of our Best in Show photographs of dogs starting with Troika Editions' very own Dan Burn Forti. |
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