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✨ Have you visited FASHION by Paul Kooiker yet? Come and see until 12 February 2023 at Foam. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
Paul Kooiker's photography transcends classic gender roles: his models adopt unusual poses and their faces are often left out of frame, obscuring their identity. At times, it is not even clear whether the subject is human or a doll.
Untitled, 2019 © Paul Kooiker.
✨ Join us for the official opening of House of Bo***ge by Ernest Cole on 26 January from 17.30 until 21.00 hrs at Foam!
Register for free via go.foam.org/opening-ernest-cole
The exhibition will be opened in the presence of Leslie Matlaisane and James Sanders, representatives of the Ernest Cole Family Trust and includes parts of Cole's archive, which had long been considered lost.
New York City, USA, 1971 © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos.
💥 Join the next interactive tour through FASHION by Paul Kooiker on Thursday 26 January from 19.30 hrs. Are you under 25? Signing up for this tour will give you free access to the museum.
Sign up via go.foam.org/FFTKooiker
The tour guides of Foam Forward all participated in a long-term educational project at Foam. The students have a big heart for Foam and feel it is important to take visitors through the exhibition in their own refreshing way.
Paul Kooiker - FASHION, 2022 © Foam. Video by Vast Array Films.
✨ New at Foam Editions: prints by Aaron Schuman.
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Sonata: #26 (Olive Groves: Variation 3), 2021
From the series Sonata
Archival pigment print
297 x 420 mm (paper size)
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
👀 Views from FASHION by Paul Kooiker.
Come and see until 12 February at Foam. Tickets via go.foam.org/paulkooiker 👠
“Fashion” is a concept that represents what is trending at the moment. Paul Kooiker’s fashion photography, on the other hand, is characterised by its timelessness. The artist portrays the biggest fashion brands and today’s most famous faces, but transports them to a world of their own. Disconnected from time and place, his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess.
Paul Kooiker - FASHION, 2022 © Foam. Photo: Christian van der Kooy.
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Foam Magazine 63: FOOD! The Nourishing Issue
- Out on 26 January. Order via go.foam.org/fm63-food 💫
You are what you eat! Food fuels us, heals us, and connects us. However, the subject also raises questions around sustainability, labour, exploitation, and politics. In this issue of Foam Magazine we look at how food drives us apart, brings us together and moves us forward — all at the same time.
Cover image: Sunil and Sulbha Dhiwar, with Tanmay, Tejasvi, Sourabh, Prachi and Vivek from the Goody family archive, 2002. Image from the series Eat with Great Delight © Rajyashri Goody, courtesy of the artist.
✨ Join us for the opening of House of Bo***ge by Ernest Cole on 26 January from 17.30 until 21.00 hrs at Foam!
Register for free via go.foam.org/ernestcole
The exhibition will be opened in the presence of Leslie Matlaisane and James Sanders, representatives of the Ernest Cole Family Trust Foam and includes parts of Cole's archive, which had long been considered lost.
South Africa, 1960s © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos.
👇️ Doll or human?
Paul Kooiker's photography transcends classic gender roles: his models adopt unusual poses and their faces are often left out of frame, obscuring their identity. At times, it is not even clear whether the subject is human or a doll.
✨ Come and see FASHION by Paul Kooiker until 12 February 2023. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
Untitled, 2021 © Paul Kooiker.
✨ Count down: only 3 days left to visit Foam Talent 2022!
Come and see until 18 January at Foam. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
Kata Geibl's constructed images are symbolically charged and interrogate the global issues that stem from capitalism and how we perceive our contemporary social, political and economic system.
Image from the series There Is Nothing New Under the Sun / See Daylight © Kata Geibl, courtesy of the artist.
💥 Seems like only yesterday that we were getting ready for FASHION by Paul Kooiker...
“Fashion” is a concept that represents what is trending at the moment. Paul Kooiker’s fashion photography, on the other hand, is characterised by its timelessness. The artist portrays the biggest fashion brands and today’s most famous faces, but transports them to a world of their own. Disconnected from time and place, his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess.
✨ Come and see FASHION by Paul Kooiker until 12 February 2023. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
✨ Coming soon: House of Bo***ge by Ernest Cole.
On view from 27 January 2023 at Foam. Tickets via go.foam.org/ernestcole
Foam proudly presents an overview of the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole. The photographer is celebrated for his tireless documentation of Black lives in South Africa under apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in effect from 1948 to the early 1990s. The exhibition includes parts of his archive, which had long been considered lost.
South Africa, 1960s © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photos.
👠 Have you visited FASHION by Paul Kooiker yet?
Come and see until 12 February 2023 at Foam. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
“Fashion” is a concept that represents what is trending at the moment. Paul Kooiker’s fashion photography, on the other hand, is characterised by its timelessness. The artist portrays the biggest fashion brands and today’s most famous faces, but transports them to a world of their own. Disconnected from time and place, his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess.
Untitled, 2020 © Paul Kooiker.
💥 Only 5 days left to visit Foam Talent 2022. Come and see until 18 January at Foam. Tickets via tickets.foam.org
Gender, desire and eroticism are central to Yushi Li’s work. In Paintings, Dreams and Love, Li muses on spectatorship in classical paintings by making Western men her subjects. She places herself into the reconstructed scenes as a way to intervene with existing representations and recreate her own portrayal of desire.
Image from the series Paintings, Dreams and Love © Yushi Li, courtesy of the artist.
✨ Which image from the exhibition FASHION by Paul Kooiker stood out the most for you?
Paul Kooiker portrays the biggest fashion brands and today’s most famous faces, but transports them to a world of their own. Disconnected from time and place, his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess.
👠 Come and see until 12 February at Foam. Tickets via go.foam.org/paulkooiker
Paul Kooiker - FASHION, 2022 © Foam. Photo: Christian van der Kooy.
✨ Have you visited Theatre of Broken Memories by Bebe Blanco Agterberg yet?
Come and see until 5 March at Foam 3h. Tickets via go.foam.org/Agterberg
Theatre of Broken Memories examines how Spain dealt with its violent history and how 'forgetting' was used as a political tool in order to move on trom the past. It is part of the larger project A Mal Tempo, Buena Cara (In bad weather, a good face') that Agterberg has been working on for the past three years.
Foam 3h: Bebe Blanco Agterberg - Theatre of Broken Memories, 2022 © Foam. Photo: Christian van der Kooy.
✨ Last chance to visit Foam Talent 2022!
Come and see until 18 January at Foam. Tickets via go.foam.org/talent22
The works in Foam Talent 2022 are based on how they connect to timely subjects and the ways in which they push forward the medium of photography. In his projects Malign Influences / The Holy Mountains, Diego Moreno attempts to create new realities, invented from his fascination with the atypical and anomalous through the manual use of coloured pencils, graphite, Indian ink, markers, oil, or materials such as bleach and vinegar.
Image from the series Malign Influences / The Holy Mountains © Diego Moreno, courtesy of the artist.