Looking to the 21st century experience for inspiration, this selection of new visionaries highlights changing notions of identity, the impact of new technologies and the blurring lines between truth and fiction.
Working in front of and behind the camera, 2018 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize winner Electra Lyhne-Gold is influenced by the visual power of cinema, providing reimagined narratives collaged together from mainstream media.聽questions the wider impact of advertising and information networks by fragmenting the language of publicity.
Winner of the聽C/O Berlin聽Talent Award, Moshammer (b. 1988) creates images using聽Google Maps, film footage and imagined compositions. By combining fiction and reality, the artist鈥檚 glossy, graphic and enigmatic images tap into key contemporary questions about the nature of truth in the digital age.聽
Work by New East Photo Prize 2018 finalist Eksta occupies the intersection between documentary and fiction, engaging with archival research and notions of performance.聽The Devil’s Lake聽examines a mysterious body of water in the middle of a forest in eastern Latvia, near to where the artist grew up.
Responding to a society dominated by social media, British artist and Somerset House studios resident Hannah Perry creates large-scale sculptures and immersive films engaging with ideas of emotional and mental health. In , entitled聽GUSH, the works come together, engaging with the poignant human experience of loss.
Mexican-British artist Alinka Echeverr铆a (b. 1981) works across artists’ film and photography, combining a background in cultural anthropology with a critical approach to image-making.聽The practitioner was shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize and Foam Talent, as well as聽the 2018 edition of the Prix Elys茅e.
