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Exploring The Universal Photographer: A Conceptual Art Journey: Geene & de Nooy

A woman and a man take a photo of a sculpture of a chicken in a studio setting with storage drawers in the background.

Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy loosely base The Universal Photographer on Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel Bouvard et Pécuchet from 1881. In this work, two middle-aged men study a wide range of fields, from chemistry and psychology to religion and agriculture. Like these characters, U. had a tendency to study, copy, collect, combine, and investigate – and like them, he lacked common sense. This resulted in unusual methods, peculiar preferences, and naive solutions to self-created problems.

The systematic documentation employed by Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy is reminiscent of the work of Christian Boltanski, such as his Archives du Cœur, a continuously growing archive of heartbeats from people all over the world. Similar to Mariken Wessels, who had a solo exhibition at the Hague Photo Museum last year, Geene & De Nooy create a fictional story based on their own and found photos. The work also invites a comparison to Hans Eijkelboom through the use of photography as a conceptual medium and, not least, the incorporation of dry humor.

www.ftn-books.com has now the invitation for thier exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag available.

A collection of small photographs depicting various cloud formations in shades of blue, arranged in a grid format within a card.

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