Alexander Gehring, "Dunkelkammer #1" Artists new technologies are profoundly shaping

new technologies are profoundly shaping both the physical body and its virtual representations in visual culture

In 2009 he was invited to produce a specific project for the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art in Greece and in 2010 he was assigned to photograph the Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome

the photographic objects of the work are based on mobile phone shots that have been photographed during an artist residency at the Perrhe archaeological site in south-eastern Turkey

Blattmaß: 65 cm B/91

Alexander Gehring, "Dunkelkammer #1" Artists new technologies are profoundly shaping"Dunkelkammer #1" Alexander Gehrings Arbeiten sind analoge Handabzge, die er in seinem Labor in Berlin entwickelt. In seiner Serie Dark Chambers thematisiert er das Verhltnis von Mensch und Bild, indem er das Innere von Hhlen fotografiert. Hier im Verborgenen, im Erdinneren zeugen nicht nur fossile Spuren, Stalaktiten, Stalagmiten und Gestein von einer millionenjahre alten Geschichte, sondern hier wird dem Menschen auch der trgerische Charakter der