Viktoria Binschtok | #truckfump

On cue with 1st of May, a day inherently charged with political importance, we would like to present Viktoria Binschtok’s photogram project #truckfump. The title gives up the motivation behind the work, yet it is important to note that #truckfump is a photogram series that inscribes itself in a wider installation titled DUST, a project initiated by the artist Thomas Fougeirol and the artist/curator Jo-ey Tang in 2013. An exhibition is planned for October 2020 at the Centre Pompidou, which acquired the work in 2018.

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„The plates of the present is a project based on the photographic process of photogram. In February 2013, artist Thomas Fougeirol and artist/curator Jo-ey Tang set up a photographic darkroom(nicknamed DUST) in Ivry-sur-Seine, bordering Paris. Since then, 130 participants have come through The plates of the present, comprising over 1,000 prints and a film. The project is named after the beginning of a sentence in William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature (published in six installments between 1844 and 1946), the first photographically illustrated book. An exhibition was curated by Sonel Breslav at Baxter St/Camera Club of New York, New York in 2015 with a book published by Blonde Art Books and Secretary Press. A second exhibition was curated by Jo-ey Tang and Thomas Fougeirol at Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris in 2017. At the end of 2018, the entire archive entered the permanent collection of Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris.„