Dorothée Smith
Photographer
I was born in France where I studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris, and then photography at Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie before travelling and studying in Finland. I work around the notion of gender which I try to deconstruct in my work.
Dorothée Smith
Photographer
I was born in France where I studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris, and then photography at Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie before travelling and studying in Finland. I work around the notion of gender which I try to deconstruct in my work.
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SclavanieUnwanted, Forgotten Promised LandI re-discover parts of my cultural heritage, portraying the different facets of the life of mountain villages in between the Italian and Slovenian borders. What I found was a community of survivors. (more…)
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Alice Rekab / MehrfamilienhausFeb 16 – May 14, 2023Museum Villa Stuck presents Alice Rekab’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Rekab explores cultural and personal narratives – stories that are told about us and by us. (more…)
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Martin Creed / Step PaintingsFeb 11 – Apr 10, 2023Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz presents ‘Step Paintings’ by Martin Creed, Turner Prize-winning artist, performer, composer and ‘Punk poet.’ “Colors can help you feel better,” says Creed. “Paintings are the arrangement of colors for pleasure.” (more…)
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Hear You AthensPhotobook PublicationHear You Athens is a series of 50 photographs and two letters, a correspondence between two friends, Georges Salameh and Alexandros Mistriotis. Their conversation, over the years, is summarized in this book. (more…)
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Nairy Baghramian / Modèle VivantFeb 11 – Mar 11, 2023In French, modèle vivant refers to the practice of drawing, painting, or sculpting the human figure from a live model; that is, from a person who strikes, assumes, holds a given pose in service to an artist’s act of composition. (more…)
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Julian Charrière: ErraticAug 6, 2022 – May 14, 2023The fascinations of the Arctic and Antarctic have captured our collective imagination for centuries. For the last decade, French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière has traveled to remote and hostile polar regions to explore humankind’s interconnection with these otherworldly environments (more…)
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Wardell Milan / Recent WorkOct 8 – Apr 2, 2023Wardell Milan engages with the practices of drawing, photography, painting, and performance to create works of varying scales that center the representation of the human figure. (more…)
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Alec SothPhotographerAlec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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A Photographic Life: Ashleigh ColemanEpisode 186In Episode 186 The United Nations of Photography founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on commitment to photography and photographers, never getting old, questioning funded photographic institutions (more…)
