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#133 Instability | Glitch Ecologies
EIKON #133 – Instability | Glitch Ecologies Photography no longer exists as a clearly defined medium, but as part of a complex constellation of visual practices. Cameras, algorithms, archives, and…
#132 Where Is Photography Now?
EIKON #132 – Where Is Photography Now? Photography no longer exists as a clearly defined medium, but as part of a complex constellation of visual practices. Cameras, algorithms, archives, and machine…
#130-131 Picture Politics
EIKON #130–131 – Picture Politics This double issue is dedicated to the political dimension of the image: how photographic and media-art practices make social realities visible, question them, or…
#129 20 Years of Kontakt
EIKON #129 This issue highlights Kontakt’s commitment to raising the profile of Eastern European art. To mark the institution’s anniversary, EIKON #129 pays special tribute with a feature entitled…
Portfolio
Antonis Anagnostou
With Play Fields, the Greek photographer has created a series that is far more than a survey of sports facilities.
Riitta Päiväläinen
Deeply rooted in the landscapes of Finland, Riitta Päiväläinen has, since the late 1990s, developed a body of work in which nature is not a backdrop but a counterpart.
Anton Kehrer
The image, produced and disseminated through the media in the billions today, is perceived as a distraction and diversion rather than as a focus and concentration. The artistic image allows us a deepening, an intensification, and an opening of perspective that fully integrates us into the act of…
Laura Roth
Tourism, resource extraction, infrastructure, climate change, technological developments – and the desires and longings that drive all of this – form the resonant space of Laura Roth’s visual worlds.
Annegret Soltau
Annegret Soltau rarely makes things easy for her audience. One is still struck by works with evocative titles such as “Body Orifice”, when confronted with images of genitals appearing in places where they do not belong, or with bodies tightly bound or woven as if in spider’s webs – not for…
Feature
Riitta Päiväläinen – PHANTASMA
Since 1997, Riitta Päiväläinen (Helsinki) has been working on site-specific photography projects involving fabric installations in natural environments. Through her visual language, she creates delicate, ephemeral interventions in remote, unspoilt places that appear to have been spared from human activity.