the human touch 2024
The concept of the future that we all once had seems to have been more influenced by science fiction from past decades than by today's reality. There are now more photographs of trees in the present than there are actual trees in the real world – what does this mean? What is the abstract concept of the future when it seems to end in the present? Is the future simply a continuous "after," and is everything that is not today or yesterday simply a constant flow of time?
There is a fear that AI will replace humanity as it develops its own codes through exponentially growing knowledge that may no longer be understandable by humans. Is "the future" a force that dissipates when we finally arrive there? These are some of the questions that influence my work in progress, "the human touch." My work cannot and must not provide answers to these questions – instead, it aims to be a place of experimentation that involves the experiences and identity of the viewer.
work in progress 2024
The concept of the future that we all once had seems to have been more influenced by science fiction from past decades than by today's reality. There are now more photographs of trees in the present than there are actual trees in the real world – what does this mean? What is the abstract concept of the future when it seems to end in the present? Is the future simply a continuous "after," and is everything that is not today or yesterday simply a constant flow of time?
There is a fear that AI will replace humanity as it develops its own codes through exponentially growing knowledge that may no longer be understandable by humans. Is "the future" a force that dissipates when we finally arrive there? These are some of the questions that influence my work in progress, "the human touch." My work cannot and must not provide answers to these questions – instead, it aims to be a place of experimentation that involves the experiences and identity of the viewer.
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Pia Kintrup
Germany
https://www.piakintrup.com/greysparkle
Pia Kintrup, a German artist (b.1988), graduated at Folkwang University of Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, specifically in photography. She then went to study M.A. Photography studies and practice in the same university in 2017, graduating with a Master of Arts. She has been awarded the 2019 13th International Arte Laguna Prize, winner of special prize, “Photolux Festival” in Venice, Italy, and the 2019 Excellence
Award, International Artist Award at Art Next Expo in Hong Kong. She has held countless exhibitions around Europe, and also a few in Asia, Canada, and the USA. Pia Kintrup’s research investigates new media and materials, ranging from photography to sculpture. Transformational processes, value, emptiness and abundance, and photographic steps of transition are essential for her artwork. She is represented by Galerie Ricarda Fox, based in Germany and by Gallery Ether Tokyo in
Japan.