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FMP Dinu Li

  • HildeMaassen
  • Oct 2, 2020
  • 3 min read

We had a meeting with Dinu Li yesterday with loads of new sources of inspiration. Not just on my own project.


Dinu Showed us a series about his mother who is now 94. He is taking images of her. The images are about light, hands and gestures. About getting old and love.

Dinu Li; from: the mother of all journeys

A small list of photographers who were mentioned and whose work interested me:

  • Peter Hujar: light, composition, the moment and the tone of the square images.

  • Danila Tkachenko: composition, light, hue, depth of field, framing

  • Fischli and Weiss: still live, size, flowers, colourful, double exposure, perspective.

  • Ori Gersht: square images, sphere, movement


I was told to really search for a way to exhibit; the work and story are good; now I have to think o how and where to present. That is why he showed me different ways to exhibit.


Pipilotti Rist

She is a video artist who makes installations where people are brought into the space and the work is projected on the ceiling. For the viewer this means laying down and looking up to be drawn into the work. This gives a immersive experience. The complete space is designed completely.




Miguel Rothschild.

Dinu showed me the word of Miguel Rothschild because of the way the fabric hangs in the space the the nylon used looks like rain. The fabric is printed; water.

Miguel Rothschild. 2015 the Flood

BROOMBERG & CHANARIN

The third tip Dinu gave me was on the project "Every piece of dust on Freud’s couch" DNA, hair and other samples of the couch of Freud was literally collected and research by a forensci team. The findings were transformed into large woven tapestries, that mirror the scale and texture of the original covering. This is then draped over the actual couch, replacing the rug with an abstracted portrait of one of its sitters.

What I get out of the talk and of course already knew; I have to find a way to make a "gesamtkunstwerk" which bring all the elements that I have now, together so that they can tell the story.


In the evening I talked with Michael Turner and we always go from one point to another.



Clare Strand

About what is left in the image going through communications: I have to think of a game we used to play being a kid that one person told a small sentence to the person next to him. He then told it to the person next and so on until it came at the end of a row of people. The last one told how he received the story and it was always different.


Michel Koerner

He wrestles with inherited genetic mutations, a result of his parents' exposure to nuclear radiation. In his work he is trying to show the mutations. The fact that he tries to show what is not visual to evolve a feeling with the viewer is what I also want with my work.I also see a visual resemblance.

Searching google for this work (Michael forget the name) I also came on photo gallery with nuclear test photo's.


Photos of Atomic Explosions The Umbrella event was an explosion resulting from a shallow depth underwater shot (150 ft.), June 8, 1958, at Enewetak. The yield was 8 kilotons.US Department of Energy


This image reminds me of the orange image in my WIP selection which I thought of being a kind of fairy tale castle but I now see in a different light.



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