For the installation Everything From The Studio (Destroyed), Sara Cwynar took all of the materials in her studio, documented each item and arranged it into a digital plan where she could fit the entire contents into a corner of the gallery. 

The piece begins with a text by Andy Warhol where he explains that he "hates nostalgia" so rather than keeping any of his saved mementos and ephemera around, he puts everything in labeled boxes and stores it in New Jersey before eventually throwing it away. He doesn't want to live with his saved materials but he can't immediately discard them either. This project is Sara Cwynar&rsquo;s version of that idea: that the influence of an archive on an art practice is strong, but can also be overwhelming.
Sara Cwynar attempted to install the archive according to the plan, which quickly began to fall apart as images and objects were not how she had remembered them. She left the materials for a month, then destroyed the whole thing so that she would be forced to purge the archive - allowing herself to start anew, and documenting everything only with a camera. All that remains of this studio's worth of materials is the image.
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This exhibition has been made possible by Van Bijlevelt Stichting and the Gieskes-Strijbis Fund.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
ABOUT SARA CWYNAR Sara Cwynar (b.1985, Vancouver) is a New York-based artist. She is represented by <a href="http://coopercolegallery.com/exhibitions">Cooper Cole gallery</a> in Toronto. This&nbsp;show in 3h is her first solo show in Europe.
The work of Sara Cwynar in photography, installations and collage begins in obsessively collecting and ordering visual materials. Saving, taking and re-composing images in her art practice is a cathartic means of satisfying a constant impulse. She has to collect (even to hoard)&nbsp; and to create a tangible record of that experience, grabbing a small piece of the world and reconstituting it under her own terms. The resulting archive is composed of images saved from years of photo-taking, from encyclopedias, flea markets, and people she knows, as well as objects she encounters.
In this process of accumulation and the resulting collection, she is interested in the ways in which we understand the world through pictures:&nbsp; how we view ourselves and our history through a shared image-based archive built from cultural fantasies and photographic tropes (examples include the commercial still life, the family portrait, the headshot and the landscape photograph). She is constructing her own personal archive as a way of intervening into the larger archive which she cannot control, and considering the life of photographs over time, especially at this time of change for the medium.

Sara Cwynar

Everything in the studio (destroyed), 2012

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall in London proudly present Foam Talent, a group exhibition featuring 21 photography talents who represent an international range of innovative image-makers under the age of 35.

With more than 100 photographs, varying from digital work, to colourful lightboxes to analogue black and white prints and several installations, the exhibition showcases a new generation of inspiring photographers who deploy their skills to address topics ranging from advertorial and commercial influences to reinterpreting the documentary qualities of the medium and its truth values.&nbsp;Through this diversely installed exhibition hosted by Beaconsfield in London, Foam presents its views on the current state of photography, creating a platform that introduces emerging talents in the international world of photography.
The synergy between Amsterdam&rsquo;s leading photography museum and London&rsquo;s laboratory and presentation space for contemporary art and artists, lies in their focus on identifying and developing new talent. Foam and Beaconsfield both direct their energies into providing a platform for the current generation of contemporary young artists, facilitating their exposure to a growing international audience.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Aaron Blum (United States), Alessandro Calabrese (Italy), Tom Callemin (Belgium), Sara Cwynar (Canada), David Favrod (Switzerland), Dominic Hawgood (United Kingdom), Guo Peng (China), Heikki Kaski (Finland), Matthew Leifheit &amp; Cynthia Talmadge (United States), Mariam Medvedeva (France), Abel Minn&eacute;e (The Netherlands), Marton Perlaki (Hungary), Constantin Schlachter (France), Sjoerd Knibbeler (The Netherlands), Justin James Reed (United States), Johan Rosenmunthe (Denmark), Jean-Vincent Simonet (France), Danila Tkachenko (Russia), Naohiro Utagawa (Japan), Christian Vium (Denmark) and Manon Wertenbroek (Switzerland).
FOAM&nbsp;TALENT The 21 photographers in the exhibition were originally selected from the Foam Talent Call 2015 to be featured in the annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue. This issue,&nbsp;<a href="http://shop.foam.org/en/foam-magazine-foam-magazine-42-talent-2015.html" target="_blank">Foam Magazine #42</a>&nbsp;serves as a catalogue for the show, featuring portfolios and bios on the photographers, plus extensive texts by several leading international experts.
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ABOUT BEACONSFIELD <a href="http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk" target="_blank">Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall</a>&nbsp;in London has provided a laboratory and presentation space for contemporary art and artists since 1995 supported, until recently, by regular public funding. Beaconsfield&rsquo;s reputation rests on the staging of an international programme of commissions (beacons) in a range of art mediums (field) through exhibitions, residencies, talks and events. The recent arrival of Damien Hirst&rsquo;s museum (the Newport Street Gallery) in one of the neighbouring buildings, is a promising development for the transformation of the area into an upcoming arts district.
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This exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support of principal benefactors Spaces, WeTransfer, with additional support from Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab and The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in London, United Kingdom.
The annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue and the related Talent Program is supported by the Niemeijer Fund.
Foam is supported by BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
Foam Magazine is sponsored by Igepa Netherlands BV and Hexspoor webshop support.

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22 April - 22 May 2016 Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall 22 Newport St London SE11 6AY, UK <a href="http://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/about/visiting/">Directions</a>

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