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PARROTTA CONTEMPORARY ART will present three artistic positions centering around issues of visibility with regard to notions of transparency and general public knowledge. EDMUND CLARK, YANN MINGARD and TIMM RAUTERT focus on the side effects and hidden facets of the so-called world order and its institutionalized forms of power. Clark, Mingard and Rautert capture what lies beyond the spotlights of media coverage or public reach, the unseen (or inofficial) aspects of political decisions, economic interests and social structures, which are based on hierarchy and principles of division. Gaining visibility through the photographer´s eye, the extensive responsibilities of governments and agencies appear in a new light.
'In Place of Hate' by EDMUND CLARK was created during a three-year residency (2015-2017) by the artist at HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire, Europe's only wholly therapeutic prison. Images of pressed flowers from the prison ground alternate with the blurred portraits of the prison inmates Clark has taken with a pinhole camera. In his exploration of detention, he reflects on concepts such as freedom and control, the individual and the state, self and others.
In his photographic project "Everything is Up in the Air, Thus Our Vertigo" (2015-2018) YANN MINGARD directs his attention to global phenomena, which he explores like a scientist through the gathering and comparative analysis of information from different periods. He combines historical documents with actual image and text sources in a kind of inventory, displaying Earth in the Anthropocene in individual scenarios.
In his series „Weltraum", TIMM RAUTERT depicts different rooms and spaces in the Palazzo FAO, headquarters of the largest and oldest specialized agency of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. Rautert´s documentary and political approach concentrates on the building as a setting for a romantic or traditional understanding or identification with the „native" or „home" country.

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