Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare I’m surrounded only by gridlines

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support

Adél Koleszár’s Only Have Faith explores the violence that has plagued Mexico over the past two decades

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Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare I’m surrounded only by gridlinesPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective