THEME #41Winners2023JAN

OPEN CALL

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Statement

A “Thing” Like You and Me.

I am interested in questioning approaches towards photography, through presentation,how an image is constructed, or re-photography. I believe that for the medium to continue on, it needs to push ways of looking at and considering images; how they function in the21st century.These works ask if formal roles of photographs, as things that can only be displayed in rigid ways, are really working. Using the "Materiality" and "Object-ness" of photographs, itsstructure, to turn it into something new; outside of these constraints, asks even more impactful questions.

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Anton Kuehnhackl

Anton Kuehnhackl (b.1991) is an artist residing in the SF Bay Area, California.

Their work focuses on pushing the “classical” approach to photography through multidisciplinary methods.

Questioning the importance of the medium, it’s “truth”, and materiality.

They received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in 2020. They have been exhibited and published nationally/internationally.

Jury selection

This project questions the nature of the medium and explores the state of photography today. The playful still-life photographs using everyday items easily transcend stereotypes of photography. The title of the series is also excellent. We look forward to seeing him work with other artists of the same generation, stimulating each other and expanding new photographic expressions that straddle back and forth between digital and analog; two dimensional and three dimensional.