CONTINGENT at the MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE, New York
Featuring work by James Bloom (b. 1975, United Kingdom) and Gottfried Jäger (b. 1937, Germany)
In the late 1960s, photographer and theorist Gottfried Jäger developed and coined the term generative photography. Using self-built, custom pinhole cameras, he produced photographs that reveal how light is captured within the camera itself, instead of an external subject. Jäger later described this approach as exploring a relationship between “light images,” photographs generated within the apparatus, and “data images,” aligning photographic practices with emerging ideas of systems art.
Created almost 60 years later, James Bloom worked with Jäger to create Contingent, made from a digitized dataset of the original pinhole photographs. Brightness and color in the image are reorganized as inputs into a geometric mesh—a grid of connected points. The program then reshapes this mesh based on the specific color values at each point. The red, green, and blue channels determine how the image evolves, transforming them into shifting bodies that appear to evaporate and reconstitute. By dematerializing the pure, photographic object into code before it rematerializes as generated light on the Media Wall, the work completes a cycle from light to data and back to light.
LILLY LULAY AT GUANGZHOU IMAGE TRIENNAL
Ecology of Sensitivity
In an algorithm-dominated visual age, Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025 explores the potential of an “expanded photography” to reconnect humans with reality. Contemporary artists offer new forms of attention, seeking to build new imaginaries of nature and memory by bringing together both digital and post digital (neo-analog) aesthetics. Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025 stands as a manifesto for an Ecology of Sensitivity, reshaping how we perceive the world.
Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025 offers a perspective on visual artists who take the context of the Anthropocene as a determining factor in representing the world. Our digital existence has led to a crisis of sensitivity, impoverising our perceptions by depriving us of direct contact with nature and favoring the mediation of images. Yet, contemporary artists invite us to reclaim this sensitivity, approaching materiality in a different way and rethinking our relationship with history and memory. The Triennial thus stands as a true manifesto for a new ecology of sensitivity.
Curators: Wang Shaoqiang, Michel Poivert, He Yining, and Taous Dahmani
Release of "REMEMBER THE FUTURE" by Albarran Cabrera
Few copies signed by the artists available at the Gallery online shop.
Published by RM
Both born in 1969 and living in Barcelona, Anna Cabrera and Angel Albarrán have been working together for more than twenty years and form a rising duo on the photographic scene. Together, they develop a photographic universe, poetic and sensible where the emotion of the subject meets the beauty of the print. Questioning identity and the traces the camera keeps of the past, their various open series evoke our relationship with time and memory and our perception of the photographic image between reality and illusion.