During the early 2000s González noticed that photojournalists were increasingly publishing images of soldiers or civilians transporting dead bodies. Those images moved her, because in the nineteenth…
In Nature Morte Halloubi pays homage to the work of the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) who spent his entire life painting still lifes. By juxtaposing those works with art-historical events…
Hans Broek's landscapes are charged with a troubling tension. That certainly applies to his series about the history of the Dutch slave trade, The Things I Used To Do . Broek made trips to countries…
Struth’s family portraits have little in common with spontaneously taken family snapshots. Due to the meticulous framing of the image and their frequently very large sizes, his images are more related…
48 Portraits (1971/72) is a series of paintings that were first shown in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 1972. Richter presented these portraits, hung in a line, all at the same level,…
Broek's images of places along the Atlantic, where many of the enslaved worked or were imprisoned prior to being transported, are portrayed by him as sites of evil – just as the area surrounding Kamp…