Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rarePaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

in versions that are painted (on glass) or embroidered (by his mother) and the distinction between the copy and the original doesn’t interest him in the slightest

Adél Koleszár’s Only Have Faith explores the violence that has plagued Mexico over the past two decades

The medium suits the story—images hold mystery

The overview of his photographic practice explores the evolution of its visual language

and on the value of fiction in our daily lives

capturing the lasting impact of childhood on adult identity

dramaturgy

using handmade sets

Rossi photographs Rebecca

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support

What is objective and what is subjective