These are photographs from two ongoing series. The first, Band of Outsiders, followed my two brothers during the years after our father’s death in 2001. While photographing their lives I also drew on feelings of isolation from my own youth. The project challenges the notion of childhood as a period of naïveté and simplicity and explores moments of detachment that are experienced in times of fragility and uncertainty. The concept for my latest project, Disconnected, stems directly from this series of my brothers. Photographing them opened up an insight towards moments of detachment, whether found in the look on someone’s face or a scene that I happen upon. Photographing these scenarios allows me to investigate ideas of abandonment, disconnection and isolation in a more abstract manner.
Rachael Woodson
Photographer
Born in Bern in 1984, Rachael Woodson is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. After finishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and an artist residency at l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles, France), she completed a Master in Photography and Contemporary Art at l’Université de Paris 8 in 2016. She continues to participate in research groups and collaborations that consider the photographic medium in a larger, interdisciplinary context. Her work methods favor forms that reuse and reactivate images from the archive, that focus on process as opposed to finality and that allow for a fluidity between different artistic gestures. The objective is not to arrive at any one definitive response, but to react, and to propose atmospheres of energy and contemplation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and independent art spaces in France, the United States and Japan.
Rachael Woodson
Photographer
Born in Bern in 1984, Rachael Woodson is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. After finishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and an artist residency at l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles, France), she completed a Master in Photography and Contemporary Art at l’Université de Paris 8 in 2016. She continues to participate in research groups and collaborations that consider the photographic medium in a larger, interdisciplinary context. Her work methods favor forms that reuse and reactivate images from the archive, that focus on process as opposed to finality and that allow for a fluidity between different artistic gestures. The objective is not to arrive at any one definitive response, but to react, and to propose atmospheres of energy and contemplation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and independent art spaces in France, the United States and Japan.
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These are photographs from two ongoing series. The first, Band of Outsiders, followed my two brothers during the years after our father’s death in 2001. While photographing their lives I also drew on feelings of isolation from my own youth. The project challenges the notion of childhood as a period of naïveté and simplicity and explores moments of detachment that are experienced in times of fragility and uncertainty. The concept for my latest project, Disconnected, stems directly from this series of my brothers. Photographing them opened up an insight towards moments of detachment, whether found in the look on someone’s face or a scene that I happen upon. Photographing these scenarios allows me to investigate ideas of abandonment, disconnection and isolation in a more abstract manner.
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Margaret Raspé / AutomatikFeb 3 – May 29, 2023In the spring of 2023, the Haus am Waldsee presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Berlin-based artist Margaret Raspé (b. 1933 in Breslau), who created a significant body of artistic work (more…)
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Katharina FritschJun 18, 2022 – Mar 31, 2023The German sculptor Katharina Fritsch has made a significant contribution to visual art since the early 1980s. With distinctive cast forms painted in vivid colors, she has developed a specific sculptural lexicon encompassing a typology of everyday objects, animals, and humans, as well as installations (more…)
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ARTPIL / Prescription .128Autumn is a second springDeeply into fall now, falling back an hour, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” –Camus. Recently celebrating our Anniversary and setting up base in the eternal city of Rome, Artpil enters into its second spring. (more…)
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Rencontres d’ArlesPhotography FestivalEvery summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions at various of the city’s exceptional heritage sites, the Rencontres d’Arles has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography (more…)
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COLLECTIONSAvailable Works for SaleWelcome to the new Online Boutique of Artpil with unique contemporary art works, limited edition photography, and monograph artist and photo books available for purchase. Here are some featured collections: (more…)
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RE/COLLECT THISJan 15 – Mar 21, 2023421, Abu Dhabi’s independent platform dedicated to supporting emerging creative practices, announces its winter 2023 program: RE/COLLECT THIS (more…)
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Zahrin KahloPhoto / Video ArtistZahrin Kahlo is originally Moroccan but lives and works in Italy as a photographer and video artist. She pursued classical studies, receiving a degree in Foreign Literature. After graduating she began to travel fascinated by countries described by her favorite writers… (more…)
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Deana LawsonVarious, 2022–2023This exhibition is the first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson, a singular voice in photography today. For more than 15 years, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of Black life through a wide spectrum of photographic languages (more…)
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FOLIO/IstanbulThierry ClechFrom the Black Sea, in foggy weather, we navigate along the Bosphorus towards the Golden Horn. From one side of the strait to the other, white marble palaces appear as if emerging from a dream. (more…)
