SPECIAL EVENT in cooperation with FOTO WIEN

A selected group of seven artists from the international collective 280A took up the task of documenting and recreating an entire island. This venture included recording and analyzing their own experiences and presence on the island as a new part of the studied territory. As they proceeded to (re)-create an isolated world, the individual artists turned from creators into mere replicas of themselves, revealing a world of (self)-images and questions. Aren’t all images an echo of the very first image and the manifestation that humans are nothing more than selfies of God?

In the same way as the internet nurtures and sustains our own world, travelling through binary pulses at the bottom of the ocean that surround this island, and connects all the other islands and continents on earth, the artists found themselves fluctuating between light and darkness, depth and shallow waters, distance and connection. Facing the ghosts of their own depictions and technological essays while dealing with the temptation of the snake that offers immortality through a small byte of a forbidden fruit, the artists dialogued with their own imperfections on the path of building a perfect (re)-creation.
As each breath we take, every image and everything in this island, what is repeated, gets irretrievably lost.

280A is a collective of international artists and curators focusing on contemporary art and post-photographic practice. The collective works around the concept of de-emotionalization and disembodiment, increasing virtualization and the dominance of digital surfaces. In 280A productions, individual artistic positions merge into a collective aesthetic. Based on its own curatorial projects, new works are conceived and realized; 280A also functions as a producer, presentation platform and independent publisher, offering a counter-model to the conventional art establishment. The projects range from exhibitions, publications, print editions, festivals, fairs to curated artist retreats.

Participating Artists: Martin Bollati (AR/ES), Ernst Lima (AT), Christiane Peschek (AT), Phillip Pess (AT/DE), Michaela Putz (AT), Linn Phyllis Seeger (DE), Magdalena Zoledz (PL/UK)

280 A: VACANT DREAM STATE
Performance: March 28, 2019, at 7 pm
Location: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Exhibition: March 1—May 26, 2019, daily from 10 am to 10 pm

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The festival FOTO WIEN – Month of Photography (March 20 -  April 20, 2019) aims to showcase the diversity and potential of the Viennese photography scene – in collaboration with over 130 photography institutions, museums, archives, galleries, art universities, artists initiatives and off-spaces.

As program partner of FOTO WIEN, we are happy to offer you an annual EIKON subscription at a special price:

Austria: € 60,00  ->  € 50,00
EU/Overseas: € 72,00  ->  € 60,00
Rest of Europe: € 65,00  ->  € 54,00
Students (up to age 26): Austria: € 30,00  ->  € 25,00
Students (up to age 26): Europe: € 40,00  ->  € 33,00

We are looking forward to your orders via mail (to office@eikon.at, subject line: FOTO WIEN SUB).

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