RECOMMENDED OLYMPUS FELLOWSHIP: LILLY LULAY, THOMAS ALBDORF, NADJA BOURNONVILLE

Lilly Lulay (*1985, Frankfurt/Germany) examines the transitional use of photography in our living spaces and in the virtual spaces of smartphones. The extended levels of imagery and symbols are visualised in her final artworks when she uses laser-cutting technology to “write” over original photographic documentation. Additional installations with printed photographs on fabrics or porcelain engage viewers to experience photographs as three-dimensional objects.

Thomas Albdorf (*1982, Linz/Austria) is concerned with our perception and the effect of artificially created images. At the first glance the viewer is confronted with cliché motifs and cultural subject matter ironically leaving one to doubt their meaning. Albdorf cleverly uses image recognition technologies and software to create new images, to question how automatic digitally rendered visuals influence meaning and interpretation.

Nadja Bournonville (*1983, Vimmerby/Sweden) uses photography to follow traces of biographical tipping points and failed adventures. She draws from a family history: the aunt of Bournonville’s grandmother was a spy for Germany in World War I and was arrested only two weeks into her mission. Through a selection of different processes, sizes and materials inspired by the biographical story Bournonville produces a rich constellation of photographic associations and emotions of universal meaning.