Currency:
Photography Beyond Capture
SCOPE OF WORKExhibition Design
Art Direction
Publication Design
Spacial Design
The exhibition explores artistic engagements with photography in the “retinal age,” where images not only act as records and imprints but fundamentally shape acts of seeing and being seen. The exhibition approaches photographs as contextual frames for narrative invention rather than as documents of binding truth or essence. Currency considers how knowledge is sought and reimagined through conceptual approaches to the photographic medium.
The exhibition took place at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and was curated by Koyo Kouoh, Rasha Salti, Gabriella Beckhurst Feijoo and Oluremi C. Onabanjo
Freelance x Studio Safar, 2022
Artists include Akinbode Akinbiyi, Claudia Andujar, Ziad Antar, Vartan Avakian, Edson Chagas, rana elnemr, Oroma Elewa, Anne-Marie Filaire, Ragnar Axelsson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Alfredo Jaar, Lebohang Kganye, Clifford Prince King, Osamu James Nakagawa, Guevara Namer, Marilyn Nance, Mame-Diarra Niang, Otobong Nkanga, Elle Pérez, Jo Ractliffe, Ashfika Rahman, Cecilia Reynoso, RaMell Ross, Fazal Sheikh, Alexey Vasilyev, Carrie Yamaoka, Raed Yassin, Paul Yeung.