Maria von Hausswolff at Johan Berggren

Maria von Hausswolff at Johan Berggren

Recalling deep sea photography above ground of course estranges. Blackness, depth, unknown. The trick is adept, the cinematic isolation of terrain turns it to vignettes of a dreamed world, us tourists, Planet Earth or Alien. They're both the same film, same worlds. As the title implies. Ours is a lovely world, so deploying it as its spectacular self, a fine filmic conceit. And its made almost literal here, moralistic, the cinematographer is the tourist, is the alien. We should probably all be.

David Douard at Johan Berggren

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Douard’s big year has sown spaces to be filled, a chain reaction burning interest fueling the expansionism of visibility, a speed of production in which interest generates on the premise that even if not all of it is at least some of it will be, the trade shows of nomadic artists that Duoards asserts the bodily in the trash accumulated, acknowledging the filth of things ready made, the body in the product, in the package, in the excrement of practice, Duoard both reacting to and participating in the cold industry of the system; filthy, disgusting, sporadically humane.

See too. Mathis Altmann at Freedman Fitzpatrick , Michael E. Smith at Susanne Hilberry , Simon Denny at Portikus , Cathy Wilkes at Tramway , Ben Schumacher at Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon