UNSEEN INSTANTS - Volunteer Journal
„UNSEEN INSTANTS“ Volunteer Journal (publication, newspaper print, 44 color images, text, 64 pages, 370x285mm) Awarded with Hugo Roelandt Prize 2017- Nominated for Horlait-Dapsens and STRT Schot Prize 2017) Von Bally uses the familiar and informal medium of Emails to tell the complex story of a member of the generation Y in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. She is mixing fragments of reality, diary entries and personal messages with stylistic storytelling - sending messages out to an unknown addressee. TEXT CONTENT: www.birgitvonbally.com/volunteer-journal-text
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Installation Shot "UNSEEN INSTANTS" The OSB furniture provides a seating space to read "Volunteer Journal" and provides a link to the cheap and improvised material used by volunteers and young design alike. The Wall Text: "PATRIARCHY BIG PROBLEM MY FRIEND" refers to a Graffiti on the wall of a migrant occupied building on Lesvos. By converting the street art into an Wall Text it becomes a tag line for the exhibition space. A continuation of this idea in a different space could include markers for visitors to write on the surface of the wall to create an interactive piece.
Valley of the Shadow ("UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes")
"UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes" is a series of 300x220 cm photographic prints made by enlarging originals of 4,6 cm 6,2 cm Fuji Instax Polaroids. All images were taken during the humanitarian crisis, while volunteering in Greece between 2016 and 2017. Blown up to this massive scale, the instant images receive a painterly quality connecting their actual topic and medium to the tradition of historical storytelling and passing on information through generations. - What will be remembered from our time? - "Valley of the Shadow" references Roger Fentons iconic and harrowing image from the crimean war in 1855
View of Turkey ("UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes")
"UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes" is a series of 300x220 cm photographic prints made by enlarging originals of 4,6 cm 6,2 cm Fuji Instax Polaroids. All images were taken during the humanitarian crisis, while volunteering in Greece between 2016 and 2017. Blown up to this massive scale, the instant images receive a painterly quality connecting their actual topic and medium to the tradition of historical storytelling and passing on information through generations. - What will be remembered from our time? - "View of Turkey" features an abandoned tank on a hilltop of the Greek island of Lesvos - still aimed to Turkey. The young man who chose it has a location for his skype session is talking to his afghan friend over on the other side - still hoping to make it to Greece.
Volunteer Flat ("UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes")
"UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes" is a series of 300x220 cm photographic prints made by enlarging originals of 4,6 cm 6,2 cm Fuji Instax Polaroids. All images were taken during the humanitarian crisis, while volunteering in Greece between 2016 and 2017. Blown up to this massive scale, the instant images receive a painterly quality connecting their actual topic and medium to the tradition of historical storytelling and passing on information through generations. - What will be remembered from our time? - "Volunteer Flat" with its tableau vivant - like aestetics reveals the average young age of volunteers and refugees alike. The Fuji Instax Camera is a medium preferred by the "Millennial"-Generation that is now faced with a humanitarian crisis.
Refuge ("UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes")
"UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes" is a series of 300x220 cm photographic prints made by enlarging originals of 4,6 cm 6,2 cm Fuji Instax Polaroids. All images were taken during the humanitarian crisis, while volunteering in Greece between 2016 and 2017. Blown up to this massive scale, the instant images receive a painterly quality connecting their actual topic and medium to the tradition of historical storytelling and passing on information through generations. - What will be remembered from our time? - "Refuge" is capturing an ambiguos scene. Is the remnants of a festival? A holiday in outdoors? Or something much more existential? Indeed it depicts an illegal camp in the brushes on the shores of Lesvos where refugees were hiding who were faced with the very real threat of deportation. The aesthetics again remind of the language of landscape paintings.
BYOB ("UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes")
"UNSEEN INSTANTS - Political Landscapes" is a series of 300x220 cm photographic prints made by enlarging originals of 4,6 cm 6,2 cm Fuji Instax Polaroids. All images were taken during the humanitarian crisis, while volunteering in Greece between 2016 and 2017. Blown up to this massive scale, the instant images receive a painterly quality connecting their actual topic and medium to the tradition of historical storytelling and passing on information through generations. - What will be remembered from our time? -"BYOB" (Acronym for "Bring your own bottle") is a rarely seen picture with regard to the refugee crisis. It is a reminder that places of tragedy are much more multi-faced than portrayed in the media. Furthermore it, again, is a reference to the typical age group of volunteers and it's "coping strategies".
UNSEEN INSTANTS
UNSEEN INSTANTS
-Volunteer Diary (publication, 44 color images, text, 64 pages, 370x285mm)
-Political Landscapes ( wallpapers, 3x2.20m, installation)
-Moving Wall (Text on Wall, Markers)
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