The artworks chosen by Bruce Silverstein Gallery for Frieze 2011 highlight five contemporary approaches to the image/camera-based medium.
The series New Landscapes by Yao Lu, currently on view at the Istanbul Modern, is a pointed commentary on China's rapid urbanization threatening the country’s environment.
Michael Wolf’s Street Views series is comprised of images of city dwellers in the streets of Paris and New York, captured by Google Maps. The work addresses the modern dilemma of unwanted surveillance, diminishing privacy, and the nature of appropriated imagery from the Internet in art.
Zoe Strauss, who has been displaying her work in the form of photographic installation since 2000, presented her work in the 2006 Whitney Biennial as a slide show. The artist-designed installation for Frieze 2011, also a slide show, would celebrate her widely acclaimed I-95 project and her solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011.
Also included will be Trine Sondergaard’s images of women on the island of Fanoe. These images address the current polemic of veiling, the incongruity between history, culture and modern European society as well as the photograph as ethnographic document. In 2011, Sondergaard’s series will be shown at the National Museum of Art, Norway.
Sondergaard’s images would be displayed alongside the work of Todd Hido. Hido’s images of women were featured in his 2006 book Between The Two. Hido solicits his subjects from social networking websites, posing and positioning them drawing attention to the photographer/subject and viewer/object dynamic.
