Found Not Taken - Hardcover

Ana Balona De Oliveira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868286721 ISBN 13: 9783868286724

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

For this series, Angolan artist Edson Chagas walked through the streets of Luanda, London and Newport, collecting discarded objects and moving them, at times slightly and in other instances significantly, before photographing them. Taken out of their context and photographed in relation to a carefully chosen background, the mundane items are turned into abstract icons that animate the city.

A selection from the series represented Angola at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013, winning the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Chagas' works were recently shown at the Museum of Modern Art, and The Walther Collection Project Space, New York.

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About the Author

Edson Chagas (*1977) lives and works in Luanda, Angola. He studied photography and audio at the Centro Comunitário de Arcena in Portugal in 1999; photography at the Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação in Portugal in 2002; photojournalism at London College of Communication (LCC) in 2007 and documentary photography at the University of Newport, Wales, in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Brescia, Italy (2013) and Memorial Agostinho Neto, Luanda (2013) and Instituto Camões - Centro Cultural Português, Luanda (2014); Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, UK (2014). Group exhibitions include Transit, OCA, São Paulo (2013); and The 2nd Luanda Triennial, Angola (2010); Shifting Africa - What the Future Holds at Mediations Biennale (2014); Journal, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2014); Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva-Pregny, Switzerland (2014); The Divine Comedy, MMK, Frankfurt, travelling to other venues (2014).

Ana Balona de Oliveira is a FCT Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon and at the Institute for Art History of the New University of Lisbon and a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

From the Back Cover

For Found Not Taken, Chagas walked through the streets of Luanda, London and Newport, collecting discarded objects and moving them, at times slightly and in other instances significantly, before photographing them. Taken out of their context and photographed in relation to a carefully chosen background, the mundane items are turned into abstract icons that animate the city. What might seem at first glance a symbol of a society characterized by waste and instant obsolescence is also a reflection on the fact that what is perceived as real is actually a construct. A selection from the series represented Angola at the 55th Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868286721
• ISBN 13: 9783868286724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116