Paris Photo 2018

KLEMM'S @ Paris Photo 2018:
A two-artist dialogue to contemplate the pictorial fabric that has determined our lives over generations.

A presentation conceived by
Viktoria Binschtok
with selected works by
Jan Groover

For the 2018 edition of Paris Photo, we are pleased to present works by the artists Jan Groover and Viktoria Binschtok.

Linked to her concept of „networked images“, Viktoria Binschtok has conceived our Paris Photo booth and chosen works by Jan Groover that come into dialogue with the connected, but fragmented image culture of the last century. A conscious and authorial selection process plays an integral part in both artists' practices—from the layered material design of the booth, to Groover's subjective, but highly aestheticized vision, to Binschtok's own articulation of today's self-reflective image landscape beyond the actual photograph. Visual nets are simultaneaously cast and called into question, opening up a space to contemplate the pictorial fabric that has determined our lives over generations.

Jan Groover and Viktoria Binschtok fuse gestures, signs, and surfaces in their works of photographic details, revealing a heightened sense of the world at large in their meticulous and aesthetic compositions. Both artists’ oeuvres link to the intricacies of visual culture in their respective times – one far off from the digital world of images, the other constantly reflecting on it.