Maarten van Schaik

 in 2003. The artwork is an analogue c-print and is displayed at 30 x 40 cm.

The artwork explores genres such as architecture and autonomous photography.

System 8, from the series Kosmos, 2011

Untitled from the series Portfolio Zuidas

06.09.2004

Jasper Wiedeman

 in 2004. The artwork is displayed at 61 x 80 cm.

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From the series Monuments

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Douglas Mandry

 in 2018. The artwork is an ice photogram digitally printed on glass, and is displayed at 33 x 40 cm.

In an attempt to minimize the devastating effect of global warming on the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, each summer they are covered with geotextile blankets that are designed to keep the ice cool. Douglas Mandry journeyed his native country, intrigued by this desperate attempt to prevent the receding glaciers from further melting. The artist collected disused pieces of geotextile from the mountains, and later processed them as a base for found photographs of early twentieth-century alpinism in the region. Mandry also took bits of broken ice from the glacier with him in a cool box. In the darkroom, he put the ice in the enlarger, where it started to melt and drip onto the photo paper, creating a colourful aura of the glacier. Mandry then reproduced these photograms on glass plates. 

could be considered an index of the vanishing glaciers of Switzerland: frozen time, captured in an instant by the principles of photography.

Monuments, Aletsch #2, 2018

Joris Jansen

 in 2011. Using c-print as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 99 x 129 cm.

 is reminiscent of outer space; it is a familiar picture  of the infinite, of the unknown and total chaos that surrounds us. The photographs in the series 

 by Joris Jansen refuse the reading of the medium of photography as a method to make things visible. His photographs rather make things invisible. Jansen rephotographs the surface of an analogue photograph. By doing so he creates an imaginary universe full of milky ways and swarming planets. This new universe is far removed from the initial photograph and thus only the materiality of the analogue photograph seems to be relevant for the creation of a completely new universe. 

System 8

Kardeşlik from the series Turunç

Kardeşlik from the series Turunç

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Solène Gün

 in 2020. Using photography printed on transparent fabric  as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 250 x 203 cm.

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 (Bitter Orange) records the daily lives of young men with a Turkish background in the suburbs of Paris and Berlin. Solène Gün, herself a child of Turkish immigrants and raised in a Parisian suburb, captures the fraternity and strong mutual solidarity that can also go hand in hand with a lack of perspective.

The work is named after an orange commonly found in Turkey. The fruit is a metaphor for the bittersweet existence of a community that is frequently the target of negative stereotyping. Torn between the conflicting urge to hide and the wish to be heard, these men are portrayed faceless. Gün’s focus is on the symbols and gestures through which their identities are expressed, such as a necklace, a prayer rug or the silhouette of a brotherly handshake.

Evimde from the series Turunç

Evimde from the series Turunç

 in 2020. Using photography printed on satin paper as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 110 x 90 cm.

. Through this image, the symbol of fraternity is placed at the forefront in order to escape the stereotypes people may have on suburbs and young from the Turkish community.

Potato, 2003

Blommers & Schumm

 in 2003.  The work explores genres such as 

For a diverse group of contemporary photographers, the Dutch still life remains a source of inspiration, but with a modernised and updated concept in a contemporary visual language. This highly stylized portrait of one of the most Dutch products ever, the potato, is far from classic, but instead starkly graphic. The humble vegetable is staged like a fashion model in this work by Blommers & Schumm. At the centre of attention the potato with its blemished skin gains a sculptural quality.

Potato

Lilac from the series Flamboya

Viviane Sassen

 series. Using C-print on  as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 80 x 65 cm.

Codex from the series Parasomnia, 2010

Foam is supported by the VriendenLoterij, Foam Members, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the VandenEnde Foundation and the City of Amsterdam.

In 2021 Foam receives additional support from the Mondriaan Fund and Kickstart Cultuurfonds

 shows a young Kenyan man standing in a white shirt with a pink book on his head. He's looking up, but his face is not visible. The photograph is part of the 

 series, which for a large part consists of portraits of young Africans in Zambia, Kenya, and Tanzania. They were often constructed as part of an intuitive collaboration with the subject. Remarkably, it is often impossible to see the subject’s expression: the face and parts of the body tend to be wrapped within a shadow, turning away from the viewer or only display the lower half of the body. This makes it hard to identify with the subject in the photo. The (in)ability to properly register a person’s identity, the limitations preventing the viewer from forming an accurate picture, and the role of photography are recurring themes in Sassen’s work. She plays an intriguing game with perception, undermining our assumptions and stereotypes.

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