Richard Kern, Polaroids / Special Edition architecture

Richard Kern, Polaroids / Special Edition architectureFor more than three decades Richard Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation. This publications contains more than 200

our human presence is omnipresent

This interplay of happenstance and control extends well beyond these familiar occasions and their attendant sensibilities

Valérie Mannaerts

ascending like an elevator into my brain—the essence of my narrative

She characterises her images by the delicate use of light and shadow

I even left my job for her

For viewers well-versed in twentieth-century art it is almost impossible not to be reminded of movements in art such as constructivism

seen and unseen

‘Mascottegalerij / Mascot Gallery’ is an overview of 84 textile cuddle toys

Hands that dig in the earth

The whole project turned us upside down

interpreting it