A literary term derived from the German “double-goer” the doppelgänger refers to a ghostly shadow that follows its living counterpart.  For Cornelia Hediger, the doppelgänger is a point of exploration in her self-portraits, which are large-scale photographs divided in multiple frames and then pieced together in a manner where the lines of the furniture and […]

Richard Barnes’s work captures the hidden environment of once wild animals forever preserved in great museum halls.  While the public can travel to their native land to see primates run free, those living in our urban jungles can view hyper-realistic still life environments behind security glass barriers.  Barnes visits these restricted enclosures, recording photographic proof […]

In Untitled, the Utopian Project there’s a tension between the yellowed curling cord of a phone with no visible numbers, against a futuristic honeycombed patterned wall.  There is an urge to reach through the boundaries of the photograph and pick up the phone in case there is a voice on the other end, waiting to deliver […]

Lucas Blalock’s artistic practice is as much photography as it is sculptural installation.  His work sheds a new light on the mundane and makes the ordinary uncanny.  His saturated and richly textured photographs are neatly ordered but abstracted.  Seeped in meaning but obscured, human-like but just beyond the viewer’s grasp, these still lives are at […]

Have you ever been tempted to raid a 99 cent store? Quentin Shih who is based in New York and China transformed the mundane and mass-produced objects found in 99 cent shops into still-life studies of modern life bathing in a pastel palette.  Cropping the objects in a circular frame, plastic straws and sand toys that still […]

Installation’s Issue 20 first introduced Vitor Sá‘s Beautiful Chaos, a photographic and video exploration of the vibrant streets of his native Rio de Janeiro.  The uneven streets are like labyrinths, buzzing with an electrical energy similar to the rigged cable towers overhead.  Since then Sá has returned to one of Brazil’s many landscapes in order […]