Since 2015, Carl Ander has been collecting manuals illustrated with photographs on the topics of sports, health and self-help instructional books that aspire to teach anything from how to wrestle or ski, to how to stretch or massage.
In the series Static Motion, Ander presents selected photographs, pages or spreads from books without disclosing their accompanying text instructions; therefore there is no longer any explanation regarding how to interpret these images. The logic underpinning their existence is obscured.
By separating these instructional photographs from their original context, they lose their ability to teach as originally intended. Nonetheless, this does not completely negate their ability to teach. Collectively, these images can now serve as a manual on how to photograph the body in motion.
The photographs are frequently accompanied by illustrations. Arrows and other graphical elements have been drawn on top of the photographs to indicate the direction of movement. Interventions such as these suggest that a single frame alone is unable to indicate motion and thus fulfill its instructional task.
Title: Static Motion
Year: 2015 - ongoing
Exhibition views from the Cortona on the Move Festival (Cortona, Italy, 2024) curated by Kublaiklan Collective and Paolo Woods.
Image credit: Matteo Losurdo/Kublaiklan
This incomplete manual leaves you with no instructions and reveals no secrets. Instead, it’s a starter pack of necessities to perform the activity of keeping goats and making cheese.
An intensely used tool in this process is the body. You’ll need it in almost every step throughout the day. Not only for milking, but also carrying fences and moving your herd. The mountainous terrain of Lessinia adds an extra demanding layer while performing these activities up and down the hills.
The exact course of action, the amount of ingredients and temperatures will be found elsewhere. But from these observations there are other things to be learned. The skills and tools you’ll need are many and making cheese is more than heating milk.
An intensely used tool in this process is the body. You’ll need it in almost every step throughout the day. Not only for milking, but also carrying fences and moving your herd. The mountainous terrain of Lessinia adds an extra demanding layer while performing these activities up and down the hills.
The exact course of action, the amount of ingredients and temperatures will be found elsewhere. But from these observations there are other things to be learned. The skills and tools you’ll need are many and making cheese is more than heating milk.
The photographs shows farmers Barbara, Fabrizio and Ada residing in Erbezzo, Verona, Italy. This work was made during the SÅM Lessinia residency in 2022, hosted by Fonderia 20.9 (Verona, IT).
Guest Curator: Federico Clavarino.
SÅM Curators: Franceso Biasi, Chiara Bandino, Ana Blagojevic.
Installation views from the exhibition “Three Apprentices” shown in Bosco Chiesanouva including work by Eleonora Agostini and Yana Wernicke.
Guest Curator: Federico Clavarino.
SÅM Curators: Franceso Biasi, Chiara Bandino, Ana Blagojevic.
Installation views from the exhibition “Three Apprentices” shown in Bosco Chiesanouva including work by Eleonora Agostini and Yana Wernicke.
Just like a car crash – photographs (accidents) stop the progress of movement and time. In the aftermath, photographs become witnesses of what has happened. We use them to understand the logic to what has occured. However, photographys indexicality is not an absolute one. Can we be sure of what we have in front of us?
The installation A Game of Badminton documents the course of a badminton game. The documentation (16 photographic prints) focuses solitary on the shuttlecock. The players and result remain unpresented, as well as any chronology of the game.
The position of each individual print were determined by the position of the photographed shuttlecock. Installing by this rule allowed the badminton game to be reconstructed and experienced once again.
Title: A Game Of Badminton
Exhibited at Galleri Monitor (Gothenburg) and MIA Photo (Milano)
Year: 2016
Poster Design: Tor Weibull
