Still/Life - Contemporary Dutch Photography
9 September to 26 October 2011
9 September - 26 October 2011
This year, Foam celebrates its tenth anniversary. Just as the
exhibition Foam opened with in 2001, Dutch Delight,
Still-Life is a group exhibition with an art historical
theme. Foam again presents work by Dutch photographers, this time
still life, a collection of unanimated objects, being the central
theme.
As a theme, still life remains as relevant as ever in today's
climate. For a wide group of contemporary (autonomous)
photographers, still life continues to inspire, although the
concept has been modernised and updated. The Potatoes
series by Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm is far from
traditional, yet highly graphic and the subject is extremely
Dutch. Given the choice of photographers, the show forms a
survey of the talent that Foam has discovered, followed and
presented in the last ten years: Melanie Bonajo, Kim Boske,
Blommers & Schumm, Elspeth Diederix, Fleur van Dodewaard, Uta
Eisenreich, Peggy Franck, Marnix Goossens, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky,
Paul Kooiker, Anouk Kruithof, Yvonne Lacet, Lernert & Sander,
Charlott Markus, Katja Mater, Krista van der Niet, Jaap Scheeren
& Hans Gremmen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Diana Scherer,
Johannes Schwartz, Ingmar Swalue, Marianne Vierø, Anne de Vries and
Qiu Yang.
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