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Seeing through Randomness

24 Oct 2017

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Fiumano Clase

London
England, United Kingdom

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Exhibiting artist Sam Burford explores the emergence of synthetic images inhabiting our world among photographic representations, inhabiting a curious space between the evidentiary and the imaginary.

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Ever increasing numbers of synthetic images are silently taking their place amongst photographic representations of the world - images that pass for the real thing when casually viewed but which on closer examination seem to occupy a curious space that is neither evidentiary nor actual yet somehow conform to the visual semantics of the photographic. In this talk Burford will explore the underlying cause of this emergence. He believes this marks an important turning point for us all - as the curator Joan Fontcuberta states:

"I believe that post-photography is not a style or a historical movement but a re-routing of visual culture. It is a concept we should express serious interest in because it defines a new relationship we've adopted with our images. Photography is an instrument that allows us to consider who we are today, what our society stands for and what it will become.” 
 

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