Up and Coming: Anna Bauer

Anna Bauer is a Polish born artist, based in London, who graduated from London College of Communication in 2008. Her practice involves photography, video and installation. At the center of her work is abstraction, essentially in photography, which has no reference to the outside world, which neither depicts, narrates nor represents.

Working within such a language means various experiments that become means of discovery and open up the unknown, unsuspected and the secret dimensions and motifs. For instance, the series of photograms ‘Glassworks’ are camera-less records of forms produced by light.

Images taken from the series ´Glassworks´© Anna Bauer

To view more of Anna Bauer´s work please visit her website at www.annabauer.net

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Up and Coming: Rafael Illich

NO FUTURE

I was born in 1978 in Mexico City. Whilst at school I learned that the only use of it was to commemorate historical dates and that everything had been done already. I often heard that my generation did not want to fight for anything, nor felt the need to fight for anything either. Accompanied by economic crisis all my life, I understood at an early age that "my future" was constrained to a couple of alternatives: a) to study, have a good job, find a partner, raise a family and once I had ruined my life, I would ruin my children one's too, or b) to increase the rows of unemployment and roam the streets of my hometown and any other city I had access to.

So, about ten years ago I became aware of having no future. At first it was just a phrase but quickly and seamlessly it became the starting point of letters, photographs and fanzines. In photography I was able to identify three series formed by different images however, all of them converged to the very origin of No Future.

Dead End/ Everyday is Friday/ From the immediate to the remote

Everyday images such as a street, a road or a specific place that apparently cannot go any further because there is some kind of barrier on it make you feel like you have got to a Dead End, however, there is always a different situation in which lives an element that represents an alternative to this.

Rafael Illich

For further details please visit: www.mil978.blogspot.com

Images taken from the series ´Sin Futuro´ & Dead End´ © Rafael Illich

Posted by Pablo Allison and Roxana Allison