crafty

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limits of photography

ENCLOSED CONTENT CHATTING AWAY IN THE COLOUR INVISIBILITY
is a work which consists of:
-an installation out of approximately 4000 books
-a looped video
-a single photograph

ANOUK KRUITHOF (1981) IS A DUTCH ARTIST WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN, THE NETHERLANDS AND ABROAD

She studied photography at st.Joost Academy Breda from 1999-2003
In 2008/2009 she attended the artist in residences Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and Meetfactory Prague.

Kruithof is fascinated by the emotional and mental condition of people and how this is manifested in behaviour and act in society and time in which she lives. The starting point is her personal experience or fascination with a subject and in her project based work she combines the conceptual thinking with aesthetics. In the last 6 years she examined the limitations of the medium photography. Photography is her main medium, but since 2008 she started to work with installation, video and performative actions. Her recent work shows how she determines the borders of this media. Anouk Kruithof is very much interested in the printed book as a form to show her projects. She published 3 artistbooks: Playing borders (2009), Becoming Blue (2009) and the Black Hole icw Jaap Scheeren (2006). Her work has shown internationally in ACP Sydney, MAMAC Liege Belgium, FOAM Amsterdam, Künstraum Niederösterreich Vienna, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, Temporäre Künsthalle Berlin and museum het Domein Sittard among many others.

African hairstyles

There are hundreds of ethnic groups in Nigeria, each with its own language and traditions. Among other things which are part of these traditions are various hairstyles. These are determined by the social position of the family, and the artistic talent of the hair stylist. Among them there are special hairstyles for ceremonies such as circumcisions, a woman's becoming an adult, or the celebration of a marriage. Today it is difficult to trace the background of certain hairstyles because various ethnic groups have mixed together, and adapted to modern culture. Many hairstyles have died out, taking their secrets to the grave with them. Since 1968 Ojeikere (b. Nigeria, 1930) has been making photographs of various hairstyles he sees on the street or at work, or at celebrations. He always asks his models where the hairstyle they are wearing comes from, what its meaning is, its name, and its history. In 1961 Ojeikere became the studio photographer for the first African television station. He opened his own studio in 1975, Foto Ojeikere. During an arts festival in 1968 he decided to begin photographing Nigerian cultural life. Since then he has travelled through the country in search of subjects. It was that same year he also began his "Hairstyles" series.

Remember Jesus was one

white magic

Ree Morton, Untitled, 1971-73. Courtesy Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Fund for Contemporary Art, 1953.

White magic is something to cherish, to always carry within you.
White magic is something to believe in - the universe thrives with it.

White magic reverses dark matter.

Litany

Love.

Love is all around, under blankets of white snow,
beneath sheets of heavy lead skies.
Love,
love is all around, singing in our hearts,
Singing in the hearts of everyone who knows and accepts it.
Love,
Love is all around, a secret endless stream.

Love.