Salon #6-Mariken Wessels, Rein Jelle Terpstra, and Stephan Keppel

24 September 2015: 10×10 salon with Mariken Wessels, Rein Jelle Terpstra, and Stephan Keppel hosted by Ken Schles in Brooklyn.

Mariken Wessels‘ latest artist’s book Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor is a real picture story about failed marriage, sexual frustration and voyeurism. She started redacting the work and arranging it into an artist’s book, for which the audience will be invited to a journey into Henry’s life as well as his twisted vision of Martha – his former spouse and muse.

For the creation of Entre Entree, Stephan Keppel spent one year in Paris and its suburban ring road (the Boulevard Périphérique). By reproducing the endless variations of the city’s surfaces – with his set of printers, cameras and partly found paper-stocks – With Entre Entree Keppel visually narrates a fragmented and claustrophobic urban landscape, manifested through numerous black-and-white images of concrete facades, vegetation and the textures, shapes and materials that together form the face of the city.

Rein Jelle Terpstra‘ Retracing is part of a long-term research project into perception, memory, photography, and the possibility of imagelessness. Terpstra collaborated with people who are losing their sight. He asked them about their most valuable visual memory and photographed these scenes on Kodachrome diapositive, a type of film that was discontinued in 2009.