/ BESSNYC4/ CHARLOTTE WALES/ COCO CAPITAN/ JOHNNY DUFORT /KATERINA PLOTNIKOVA / MICHAL PUDELKA /
For the 1st edition of group exhibition series BORDER, COLLECTIVE OSLO curated an international group of artists; Katerina Plotnikova, Charlotte Wales, Michal Pudelka, bessnyc4, Johnny Dufort and Coco Capitan. Their works are characterized by non-conformity and boundaryless interpretations of their individual discourses.
The Moscow-based photographer Katerina Plotnikova’s visualizes a breathtaking fairytale of enchanted worlds with humans and wild animals intertwining. Plotnikova’s works stand in sharp contrast to Bessnyc4mocking of the fashion industry with design compilations of sadomasochistic images with logos such as Chanel and Gucci. Yet both, has been commissioned by major fashion houses for their campaigns. Michal Pudelkareflects on his childhood and explores the fine lines between individual and uniformity with references to his mother’s job in a hospital in post-communism Bratislava.Photographer and filmmaker Charlotte Wales known for her ability to create ethereal visual spaces presented a delicate personal project on the border of innocence and provocation. In the work of Johnny Dufort, his raw and surrealist visions strike and create a captivating, manipulated aesthetic. The artist and photographer Coco Capitan weave together what now has become her trademark handwritten prose, poems, and aphorisms with imagery where she examines her perceptions of our contemporary society.
This first edition was set up in collaboration with Fineart in their gallery, Oslo, Norway.
"Freedom is a relative concept where the freedom of one begins, the freedom of another ends"
– Katerina Plotnikova
The BORDER exhibition series is curated by COLLECTIVE OSLO to celebrate and promote artists bringing new and vibrant perspectives to the intersection between art and fashion, focused on fashion photography.
