FOTODOKS 2023 will again consist of the exhibition (July 13-Aug. 20) and a four-day accompanying program (July 13-16) with workshops, artist talks, and discussion panels.
Entitled Future Perfect, FOTODOKS 2023 features photographic works by 13 international artists and collectives that address the current conditions and consequences of climate change. Through the works, central issues of environmental protection are brought into focus: Challenges of nuclear waste disposal, the consequences of monocultures and factory farming, or the role of the building materials industries. Likewise, the artists deal with the societal and social effects of global warming. They produce an image of the present that is marked by flight and discrimination as much as by populism and growing climate activism within the youngest generations. Looking in all directions - whether to Brazil, Australia or Bangladesh, to the Dolomites or to the Ahr Valley - it becomes clear that floods, drought and forest fires are dramatically affecting, but are no longer confined to the Global South.
The works on display testify to the wide range of current forms of photographic expression. Analog hand prints, expansive installations, and augmented reality technologies will be on view. In addition to the thematic focus, many works are united by an urgency to reformulate notions of the future. Conditions of the present, historical information, and visions of what is to come are addressed, reconciled, and blended by the artists.
This year's artists: Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke, Olgaç Bozalp, Marina Caneve, Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping, DOCKS Collective, Sibylle Fendt & Paula Winkler, Tobias Kruse, Daniel Jack Lyons, Valentina Piccinni & Jean-Marc Caimi, Marcel Rickli, Maria Sturm, Dániel Szalai.
Photo: © Olgaç Bozalp, Konya Boys, September 2018, from “Leaving one for another” // © Maria Sturm, Denkmal für die Ausfahrt, Berlin, 2021, from “How to kill a tree”