This issue of Foam_magazine deals with the relation between the 'art' and the 'artist'; it shows work of artists who explicitly delve into the inner self.
The young Norwegian photographer Dag Nordbrenden presents us with a series based on old portraits from private family albums, which he successfully tried to reconstruct in the original setting, years later. Jan Rothuizen has been collecting pictures that - in his opinion or in those of people close to him -, look like him. The common denominator of these hundreds of portraits should produce a picture of Rothuizen himself. Marnix Goossens is the subject in a series of portraits in which he presents himself in changing guises, in search of the dividing line between realism and fantasy, humor and tragedy. A part of Sophie Calle’s work Autobiographies is reproduced here. As in much of her work, the theme her is the ongoing struggle of the individual relation to the surrounding world. The self is also expressed in someone’s everyday environment. Born out of this idea, the Polish artists Jan Smaga and Aneta Grzeszykowska give an unhuman bird’s eye view of a series of private rooms, allowing a voyeuristic look into someone’s personal living quarters. Machiel Botman represents his personal surroundings, family and friends in an extremely poetic and intuitive way. Furthermore, auraphotos of employees and friends of Foam, design bureau Vandejong and publisher Artimo form the magazine’s leitmotiv, as this issue is also the perect platform for our own personal exposé.
Texts: introduction to the theme 'Self' by Marcel Feil; texts with the portfolios by Cécile Camart, Eivind Furnesvik, Martine van Kampen, Marek Krajewski, John Oomkes and Dirk van Weelden.
This issue also lists an international exhibition calendar and a book section with a selection of recent publications on photography
