Northwood y otras ubicaciones

Joachim Koester

Exposición: Jun 8 – Jul 16, 2000


En Artpace, Joachim Koester presenta un nuevo conjunto de fotografías, Northwood and Other Locations , tomadas en Texas, instaladas de una manera arquitectónicamente específica. El espectador entra en una galería oscura, frente a una pared inacabada frente a un resplandor azul. Las cinco fotografías de Koester se exhiben en estantes en el lado opuesto de la pared, frente a un grupo de ventanas que ha sido teñido con un gel azul grisáceo. Iluminadas solo por la luz del día filtrada, las ventanas crean una falsa sensación de noche, que evoca presunciones cinematográficas. Las fotografías están secuenciadas en los estantes implicando un sistema modular y temporal. Los sujetos de las imágenes implican una narrativa mínima, manteniendo una sensación de ambigüedad respecto al tiempo y al espacio.

Esta manipulación de la experiencia del espectador en el espacio crea una plataforma para su participación en la construcción de un tema. La instalación sugiere las formas en que se puede cambiar la narrativa a través del entorno. El nuevo trabajo amplía el interés de Koester en la transformación, específicamente, la transición de sitios y narrativas.

Aunque muy interesado en la narrativa cinematográfica, el trabajo de Koester en Texas no surge del icónico género cinematográfico occidental. Y mientras que trabajos anteriores han examinado eventos culturales y geográficos específicos relacionados con la exploración y la política, aquí, Koester evita una referencia histórica directa. Más bien, Koester evoca la narrativa fantasma de Occidente, donde un espíritu de expectativa, la frontera, se construye a través de entornos y estados emocionales cambiantes.

Artista

Joachim Koester

New York, New York, USA

New York-based Joachim Koester was born in 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He completed his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, in 1993.
Throughout the 1990s, Koester has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Arnolfini, Bristol (2000); P.S. 1, Long Island City (1999); AstrupFearnly Museet, Oslo (1999); Kunst-Werke, Berlin (1999); INOVA, Milwaukee (1998); Greene Naftali, New York (1997, 2000); and Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (1996, 2000). His work has been included in significant group exhibitions, including P.S. 1’s Greater New York (2000); Organizing Freedom at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2000); Cinema Cinema at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (1999); Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki’s This Side of the Ocean (1998); Nuit Blanche at the Musee d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998); The Louisiana Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (1997); and Disneyland After Dark at Kunstamt Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1996) and Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (1995). He was included in the 1997 Johannesburg Biennial, Documenta X (1997) and the 1995 Kwangju Biennial.
Joachim Koester’s conceptually-based work examines the narrative conditions of culture, framing their overt as well as their unexplored aspects. Through photography and video, he skews seemingly mundane situations and landscapes with editing, repetition, and shifts in color. Beautiful images entice the viewer, but upon careful inspection, there is discomfort in the images Koester creates; a sense of darkness, of social disorder, permeates his work.

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Photo by Dominik Gigler

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