Ali Altın & Jochen Goerlach

€400,00

Description

Untitled, 2013/2025
Archival pigment print on Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl 310g
26 x 32,5 cm (image size) on 29,7 x 42 cm (paper size)
Edition of 10 + 2 AP

Every edition is accompanied by the Caprii-Booklet
We sing with our light – Ali Altın & Özlem Altın
published by Sies + Höke, 2025.

The work will be sold unframed.

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The photograph is from the series ‘Aktfotofix’ by Ali Altın and Jochen Goerlach. Spontaneous portraits were taken in a mobile photo booth set up in places such as clubs and bars. This photograph shows two young women in a playful, free gesture of self-expression.

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The photograph is from the series ‘Aktfotofix’ by Ali Altın and Jochen Goerlach. Spontaneous portraits were taken in a mobile photo booth set up in places such as clubs and bars. This photograph shows two young women in a playful, free gesture of self-expression.

We are the stars which sing

We sing with our light

We are the birds of fire

We fly over the sky.

Our light is a voice

We make a road for spirits,

For the spirits to pass over.

 

Exerpt from The Song of the Stars (Algonquin oral tradition)

We sing with our light – Ali Altın & Özlem Altın, 2025, Caprii, Düsseldorf

We sing with our light – Ali Altın & Özlem Altın, 2025, Caprii, Düsseldorf

Ali and Özlem Altın make for an unusual sibling pair – born and raised in Goch on the Lower Rhine, with Turkish parents from Anatolia. Özlem points to illustrated manuscripts by the renowned medieval Persian physician and geographer al-Qazwini (d. 1283) as a source of inspiration – a key reference for how the world was viewed in the Middle Ages.[...]

Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt
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