For the first time ever, we are presenting space for art during the festival. Three international artists will show their works and share their knowledge with curious visitors. Two photographers, Sjoerd Derine from Amsterdam and Alexandra Tcherkassova from Leipzig, and Valentin Alfery from Vienna, a tape artist, will be featured in the art area. Curious about the story behind their art? Come to the talk! They will walk you through their creative process and what brought them to this work.
About the artists
Kairos by Sjoerd Derine
On the occasion of his 10th anniversary as a performing arts photographer, Sjoerd Derine presents the exhibition Kairos, an ode to the perfect moment. Coming from the world of dance and theatre, Sjoerd has an unparalleled ability to capture the fleeting moment of expression and movement. His work is steeped in rhythm, emotion and timing, a visual translation of the Greek concept of Kairos, that one decisive instant when everything comes together. Sjoerd Derine’s photographs are not mere records, but encounters. Moments of dance that are not only visible, but tangible. With this anniversary exhibition, he invites the audience to recognise Kairos and perhaps seize it themselves.
The Chemical Attraction by Alexandra Tcherkassova
Alexandra Tcherkassova is a professional photographer based in Leipzig, Germany. Her artistic work, in contrast to her regular job, strives to explore imperfection. Through analog media and staged settings, an alternative reality is created and experienced. The feeling, the concept, becomes more important than the apparatus, the camera. It is a portrait as performance. Alexandra’s journey has been deeply influenced by non-verbal language and expression in experimental dance, which ultimately led her to explore experimental photography. In this exhibition she will share some of those experiments and alternative practices in photography, and the portrait on the edge of the subconscious.
Tape art by Valentin Alfery
Tapetypo (aka Valentin Alfery) is an Austrian tape artist whose work combines typography and pixel-based aesthetics. His typography is influenced by his graffiti practice and shaped by the material of adhesive tape itself. Its qualities, edges, tension and limitations inform letters, alphabets and complete fonts ranging from clearly readable to coded and cryptic forms. His fascination with pixel characters and styles stems from the visual worlds of the computer games he grew up with. The works of tapetypo are often experienced as fresh and bold visual statements with a strong sense of discovery. Many people are drawn to the idea that something as ordinary and functional as tape can create playful and precise images, typographic systems and striking compositions.
