Karin Apollonia Müller is one of my favourite photographers. She takes soft photographs of Los Angeles that are at once beautiful and uneasy, quiet, lonely and on the brink of disaster, showing a version of the city that is entirely different from the Los Angeles of the popular imagination. When her work was shown at The Photographer's Gallery in London they wrote:
[Müller] grew up on a Rhine river barge. Her father, the captain, built her a swing and she remembers swinging high above the boat, flying and floating above the landscape. This experience of being in a place out of place, is echoed in her work. She says, 'I give testimony to my own perspective of a world which produces a state of constant exile, where we are banished from such comforting notions as "centre" or "home". I am an emigrant, not in the sense of a foreign worker, expelled citizen or refugee, but through my understanding of myself as a homeless being, floating and reflecting.
How immigrant artists, particularly photographers, see their environments is something that I am very drawn to and I think this is a deeply compelling aspect to how Müller's work functions. At the same time, the socio-political, ecological and aesthetic content of her photographs look to me like the visual manifestation of Mike Davis's writings on Los Angeles as an apocalyptic space.
See more of Karin Apollonia Müller's work on
her website.
I grew up in San Francisco with Susan Langan now aka DJ Qzen, who to me used to be the adorable little sister of classmates...now a sophisticated and accomplished DJ. She was asked to prepare a mix for an electronic music and culture site in Buenos Aires called Del Jardín Latino, and it's up for download here, so I thought I'd pass it on. While you're at it, listen to her other project 40 Thieves here.
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Karin Apollonia Müller is one of my favourite photographers. She takes soft photographs of Los Angeles that are at once beautiful and uneasy, quiet, lonely and on the brink of disaster, showing a version of the city that is entirely different from the Los Angeles of the popular imagination. When her work was shown at The Photographer's Gallery in London they wrote:
Please come out this Saturday night to support my good friend Amy Botello as well as other upcoming female artists in the Feminality Show at Hive Gallery from 1pm-10pm. There are some really amazing female artists involved here and you can check out some samples of their work here: http://feminalityartshow.com/
VernissageTV has two videos of the projections that are part of Jenny Holzer's current exhibit at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel, Switzerland. The exhibit includes projections on significant sites in both Basel and Zurich.
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