5 UNDER 30
YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS’
COMPETITION
Daniel Blau is pleased to announce the five winners of the
gallery’s first annual Young Photographers’ Competition:
Marianne Bjørnmyr / Madoka Furuhashi / Andi Schmied
Tereza Cervenova / Lara Morrell
We are delighted to present a selection of work by these five
talented photographers in a group exhibition here in London
this July.
Daniel Blau
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Opening:
July 4, from 6pm
Exhibition:
July 5 - July 31, 2013
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 pm
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MARIANNE BJØRNMYR
The project Shadows/Echoes II presents a culmination of perceived ideas, a myriad of stories and myths, where the authors of the material have become blurred. Photographs have been collected
and archived in an attempt to get closer to a system of belief in Iceland, where the existence of elves and fairies are most certainly not considered marginal; photographs depicting Icelandic clairvoyants attempt to photograph what we cannot see with our bare eyes. Without any valid proof of the ‘Hidden’ world, the gathered material operates as a link between the existing reality
and the possibility of another, bringing the familiar into doubt.
Marianne Bjørnmyr is a Norwegian artist, living and working in London. She received her MA in Photography from London College of Communications in 2012 and her work has been exhibited
internationally. Her photographic practice is concerned with culture intertwined with landscape; myth with story; and belief with desire.
MADOKA FURUHASHI
In the series of works entitled Inventory of 140 Old Ford Road, objects found in Furuhashi’s home in Bethnal Green, London are set into displays reminiscent of museum or gallery exhibitions. The pho-tographer takes inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Readymades’, and explores the ways in which apparently redundant everyday objects can be reenvisioned as valuable, meaningful and significant.
This body of work is presented alongside a further series of conceptual photographs entitled
Condition Report.
Madoka Furuhashi is a Japanese artist, completing a MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Having studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture previously, Furuhashi’s pursuits in contemporary art stemmed from a desire to articulate the sense of places through formal interpretation. Furuhashi’s art practice investigates forms of exhibitions, displays and
other ways of instituting ‘arts’ by generating their significance.
ANDI SCHMIED
Tel Aviv at its beginning, just over a hundred years ago, was inhabited by early settlers and later a massive inflow of people – both young and old – mainly from Europe and the Middle East. Those young people are now the oldest part of the population and only 10% of them were born there. They speak the common language – Hebrew – with different accents and it’s still a deep part of
their identity that although they are all Israelis, actually they are partly-German, partly-Yemeni, partly-Slovak or partly-Hungarian.
In her Tel Aviv Grannies series, Andi Schmied documents the everyday lives of this elderly segment of Israeli society. Schmied walked the streets, visited the beaches, joined them in their play
and sports activities, their private pilates classes and opera nights out to capture them on film. Andi Schmied is a Hungarian artist, having studied in diverse cities such as Budapest, Tel Aviv and London. Schmied is currently living and working in London. Throughout her artistic practice, her
main interest has been the psychological landscape of the urban reality from a human and architectural point of view.
Image: “1:30pm, Dizengoff Cntr, A Wiener Schnitzl Lunch Before a Date”, August 2012, digital print from 35mm film, 20 x 30 cm
TEREZA CERVENOVA
In her series Identity, Tereza Cervenova creates an expansive self-portrait through her depictions of other people. By photographing young women, she explores the ways in which her
earlier experiences as a model have influenced her life and sense of identity.
The photographer works with natural light and employs analogue shooting and printing processes in order to create intimate portrayals of female friends, relatives and acquaintances.
Tereza Cervenova is a Slovakian photographer, currently undertaking a BA in Photography at Middlesex University.
LARA MORRELL
The name of the project, Christ Stopped at Novoli is a play on the title of a memoir by Carlo Levi,
Christ stopped at Eboli in which he gives an account of his political exile from Mussolini’s regime in remote towns in southern Italy. Choosing the group of apostles to question various issues sur-rounding Catholicism throughout history, Morrell incorporates the ancient Italian technique of
Carta Pesta, which involves creating a wire skeleton and moulding a form using hay and string which is then covered with clay, sculpted, painted and adorned. In her photographs she chooses the
saints’ methods of martyrdom as their main attribute, stripping them of decoration. The composition is inspired by Italian Renaissance painting and the lighting by Caravaggio’s use of
chiaroscuro.
Lara Morrell is a British artist, completing a MA in Photography at Central Saint Martins (CSM). Born and raised in London, Morrell studied and worked in Turin before returning to her hometown. Morrell has been published in the British Journal of Photography and was recently
awarded the Cass Art Prize for her piece at the CSM degree show.
