Exhibition
September 21–November 23, 2024
Opening
Saturday September 21, 11–7 pm
during the Gallery weekend of Art Alarm
The artist will be present
Special opening hours
Gallery weekend Art Alarm
Saturday September 21, 11–7 pm
Sunday September 22, 11 am–6 pm
Regular opening hours
Tue–Fr, 2–6 pm, Saturdays vary.
Minimalist photography particularly stimulates our perception, as it draws our attention to supposedly inconspicuous details and gives the imagination room to unfold. In the spirit of the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who said: “The whole unhappiness of people stems from the fact that they are unable to remain quietly in a room”, the Dutch-Hungarian photographer Satijn Panyigay (*1988) questions the power of solitude in her minimalist photographs. The exhibition VOID shows a selection of her works, which were mainly created in empty museum spaces and depots. A dialog develops between deliberate calm and repetitive architectural abstractions. Through a consistently analogue approach and the choice of a reduced color palette, her photographs are intended to encourage deceleration. The book of the same name, with its radical layout, opens up an intimate viewing experience through the consistent use of a sequence of images that gently transitions from dark to light pictures. Just as her book, published by us, can only really be grasped haptically thanks to its many fold-out pages, the exhibition invites the visitor on a visual exploration through the spaces it depicts and their own sensations. We are showing the exhibition in cooperation with Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, which is showing the exhibition “Nightcall - The Frankfurt Edition” by Satijn Panyigay until August 24.
Photographer Satijn Panyigay (born 1988 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) studied photography at the Utrecht University of the Arts, where she continues to live and work. Fascinated by the human psyche, Satijn is primarily concerned with places that temporarily fail to fulfill their function. She has already had numerous museum exhibitions in the Netherlands, but in Germany she is still a discovery.