Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Image as Trace at Brunette Coleman, London, 26 April–31 May, 2025. Featuring Paride Maria Calvia, Nat Faulkner, Joyce Joumaa, Marietta Mavrokordatou and Kazuna Taguchi.

“Such images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.” – Susan Sontag, On Photography

The artists in Image as Trace favour experiential techniques that aren’t subjected to traditional modes of photography. With a shared affinity for exposing their means of production, the works reveal Sontag’s image as trace – charting the material process of photography itself, as well as the imprints of time.

Designed by George Haughton.

Documenting objects from the collection of Derek Jarman, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Derek Jarman: A Void at Chelsea Space, London, 29 January–15 March, 2014. Derek Jarman was an English artist and filmmaker, best known for his avant-garde art films and also renowned as a set designer, gardener, author and gay rights activist.

Poster produced on the occasion of the launch of The Stuart Sherman Papers, published by Flat i, Amsterdam. Thursday, 5 June, 2025, at De Uitkijk, Amsterdam.

Designed by Robert Milne.

In the artist’s book My sweet little lamb, Mladen Stilinović deals with the relationship between language and reality and the resulting identity constellations. In doing so, he makes reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “language-games,” where the simple use of linguistic elements is always intertwined with actions to gauge their actual meaning. The artist employs quotations from Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” such as: “Everything we see could also be otherwise,” “Objects I can only name,” and “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” These sentences also relate to objects and actions that the artist witnessed on the street, such as a delivery van for meat with the image of a piglet printed on the outside and the accompanying slogan “My sweet little lamb.” Stilinović thereby questions the reality of what one sees in combination with its textual denotation in the sense of a “language-game.” This particular work refers to different religions and their eating customs in its specific naming of food.

Image: Presentation of a round bar of wood by André Cadere, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 23 November–7 December 1975 in André Cadere: Peinture sans fin, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2007, p. 75.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Documenting Cadere, 1972–1978, MuZEE, Oostende, 2 March–2 May, 2013, curated by Lynda Morris.

André Cadere belonged to a generation of European artists who contested the art object and institutional framework of the art world in which they operated. Best known for carrying his Barres de Bois Rond—Round Bars of Wood—wherever he went. His appearances at the most important private views of contemporary art across Europe became legendary. With his round bar of wood in hand he would intervene in a provocative way on other artists’ exhibitions in galleries and museums.

You can see Lynda Morris talking about Cadere here.

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