CIRCULATE: Photography Beyond Frames

CIRCULATE: Photography Beyond FramesThis publication offers insights into the ideas and discourses behind the exhibition Circulate Photography Beyond Frames, with two in depth essays by the curators, short texts about the works, and images of the working processes. The exhibition responds to current artistic and socio cultural developments that inform the ways we relate with and through photography. It shows how 21 artists, who work with photography as a form of expression, engage with

The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever

digitises them and tries to piece together an alternate contemporary China reflected in these ordinary photographs

Rhea Jauhar

cultivates woodlands

like a shared secret

not just about physical ‘things’ that can change hands and location

scanning the publications we collected and putting together a petty unique publication about our research

as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen

In a broader sense

How do curators engage with the intricacies of a particular place

and the search for identity amid a clash of cultures

and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the work itself