Current Review(s)
'Ficciones'
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at Goodman GalleryKnown as photo journalists of the highest calibre, British born Oliver Chanarin and South African Adam Broomberg have been collaborating for over a decade on incisive documentary essays shown in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries and institutions, and collected in a number of books.
In June 2008, their documentary practice took a left turn. Travelling to Aghanistan as photographers embedded with the British Army, the two left their cameras behind, taking with them instead a large roll of photographic paper, a journey which can be accessed on the video The Day Nobody Died on Chanarin’s and Broomberg’s website www.choppedliver.info. Rather than photograph the battlefront events, the two used the army vehicle in which they were embedded as a giant pinhole camera, exposing sheets of paper cut off from the roll to the sun for 20 seconds, then titling the brightly coloured abstractions that resulted with the date and a note of the events of that day, as in The Fixers Execution, June 6, 2008.
15 October 2009 - 07 November 2009
Listings(s)
'Ficciones'
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at Goodman GalleryThe acclaimed photographic partnership of South African born Adam Broomberg and British born Oliver Chanarin hold their first solo show in South Africa at the Goodman Gallery Cape. 'Ficciones' examines the role of representational photography in global areas of trauma and conflict through two related series of work: Afterlife and American Landscape.
15 October 2009 - 07 November 2009
'People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground'
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at Paradise Row Gallery'People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground' continues Broomberg & Chanarin's ongoing exploration of the limits and possibilities of photography in a historical moment when both ubiquity and technology have rendered the production and use of documentary images intensely problematic, a vector of enquiry pursued and manifest in their earlier, seminal series; 'The Red House', 'The Day Nobody Died' and 'American Landscapes'.
The new work is the result of an engagement by the artists with Belfast Exposed, a photographic archive founded in 1983. The archive houses images taken by both professional photo-journalists and 'civilian' photographers. Accordingly the archive spans the political, the social and the private, the didactic and the playful. Broomberg & Chanarin's work has been to attempt to re-present something of the emotive totality of these contested images, of the moving collision of accident and intent in the images, the marks upon them and the bathos of the historic undercut by the quotidian.
25 February 2011 - 26 March 2011
'Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt'
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at FoMu - FotoMuseum Provincie AntwerpenAdam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have been working collaboratively for 17 years. This is the first comprehensive survey of their practice, beginning with their first work, a commissioned painting of a Hutu and a Tutsi and ends with their most recent series, produced with 3D facial recognition software.
The enduring themes of their practice – conflict, race and photography – are explored here through the presentation of over 100 works. The exhibition also includes a number of their book interventions, including their illustrated 'Holy Bible' which recently won the Infinity Award of the international Center of Photography in New York.
In 2013 Broomberg & Chanarin won the prestigious Deutsche Borse Prize for their work 'War Primer 2'. That same project was selected as part of the annual New Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York.
21 March 2014 - 06 June 2014
