Still Life with Camel 2016 © Scarlett Hooft-Graafland at Flowers Gallery
Flowers Gallery, New York/ London, will be exhibiting work by Dutch photographer Scarlett Hooft-Graafland. Her surreal images, taken in some of the most remote locations across the globe, interrogate ideas of the disappearance of traditional cultures and the fragility of nature.
Brightly lit atrium, Laurianne Bixhain, 2015
Laurianne Bixhain is one of the ING Unseen Talent Award finalists. The winner of the award will receive €10,000 towards a projection project whilst all of the finalists will have their work displayed at the ING Unseen lounge at the fair. Born in 1987, Bixhain is from Luxembourg and studied fine art at Bordeaux’s Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Lucidity and Intuition, 2016 © Christto & Andrew
Christto & Andrew are a photo duo who live and work in Qatar. They’ve been selected by Unseen this year to produce the campaign images for the fair’s 5th edition. Christto Sanz from Puerto Rico and Andrew Weir from South Africa focus mainly on their adopted homeland, playing with the sensational fictions that the West projects onQatar.
Untitled Sketch, 2016 ©, Awoiska van der Molen
van der Molen’s images speak tellingly of the long periods of isolation that precede their production. Removed from society, she perceives landscape in a different way, continuing her solitary process in the dark room. Born in 1972, she studied architecture and photography and received her first museum solo show earlier this year at Foam.
Thembekile, Parktown, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama, 2015 © Zanele Muholi-Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg
Stevenson Gallery from Cape Town are exhibiting work by Zanele Muholi-Stevenson, a photographer and activist who portrays black lesbian and gay identities and politics in South Africa today. Her powerful images act as a visual archive of a stigmatised community.
Dark scenes 71, 2016 © Katrien de Blauwer Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
The work of Katrien de Blauwer will be on display at the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire stand during the fair as part of the ‘Premiers’ section, which exclusively features work by artists, emerging or established, that has never been seen before in a fair, gallery or museum. de Blauwer calls herself a “photographer without a camera” working principally with collage, collecting pictures and photos from old magazines and papers and compiling them to create self-reflective compositions.
