Anouk Kruithof - Untitled, 2004-2015
From the C book from the series Automagic (2016)
2004-2015
Epson Archival pigment print/Canson Photosatin
40 x 33,4 cm
Edition of 8
ABOUT THE WORK
In 2011, Anouk Kruithof started with the Automagic project. Automagic contains images drawn from Kruithofs "automagic archive", made with iPhones and small digital cameras over the past twelve years. The book does not have a clear narrative, which is created in a transparent acrylic glass box. Each of these nine separate books is combined with one letter of the word A-U-T-O-M-A-G-I-C. Automagic is an exploration of an image archive transformed by means of analog photomontages, screenshots, reproductions, editing, and the addition of text.
The diversity of topics and concepts in each book create a multi-layered sculpture. It demonstrates the resourcefulness, the adventurousness, the sheer infinity of possibilities of the medium of photography, and shows how the computer and the human mind can act as processors of ways of looking at our world.
Book C is the end of Automagic.
"This book exists of rephotographed analog photomontages of mausolea and images of color smoke bombs in abstract architectural settings. Together they form a choreography, where the smoke embraces the architectural elements in the pictures and is somewhat entangled with the mausolea. Mausolea are freestanding constructed monuments enclosing the interment special of a burial chamber of the dead."
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The work of Anouk Kruithof (NL, 1981) was part of group exhibitions in renowned institutions like Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She had solo shows in galleries in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2016 Kruithof was the public winner of De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs and in 2014 she won the Charlotte Köhler Prize. In 2011 she won the Hyères Photography Jury Grand Prize and the International Center for Photography in New York awarded her with the Infinity Award in 2012. In 2006 her cooperation with photographer Jaap Scheeren was on display in Foam and in 2009 Foam selected her as a Foam Talent. She published several artist books already and she’s the founder of The Anamorphosis Prize, an international prize for independent published photobooks. Anouk Kruithof lives and works alternately in the Netherlands, Mexico and New York.
ABOUT BUYING THIS WORK
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