Dieter Hammer
Image Generator, 2013
Peco large format camera, two perspex cubes, vintage Berlebach Mulda tripod
The modern figure is not the child or the lunatic, still less the artist, but the cosmic artisan: a homemade atomic bomb. To be an artisan and no longer an artist, creator or founder, is the only way to become cosmic, to leave the milieus and the earth behind.
— Gilles Deleuze
Curated by Bastien Rousseau
This exhibition is the result of a co-investigation by five artists of the image’s ontology, in both its metaphysical and digital virtuality.
The project started by speculating about a non-mimetic photography which for us ultimately became a false concept and transformed into a Principle of Mimetic Difference; where a photograph is considered as at once mimetic and non-mimetic, existing simultaneously within and beyond both.
The invited artists have engaged with research speculating on the possible next stage of photography on the premise of a photography whose 'picture-state' is exploded through time and space.