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Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Curator, writer & scholar Renée Mussai, who pursues a special interest in Black feminist and queer visual arts practices, has chosen to collaborate with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, a writer, artist & artistic researcher engaging in a process-oriented practice that deals with the condition of Black life in the African diaspora. Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: "Response-ability — Touch/Change — Otherwise".

"Taking our cues from Toni Morrison’s potent expression of ‘response-ability’ and Octavia E. Butler’s generative ideas of transformation, we invite artists to consider notions of change — chemical, social, emotional, personal, political, economic, sexual, cultural, physical, and otherwise.

How might photographic visions convey different states of being and becoming? How might we activate the medium’s potential to embrace and shape change? What do images forged from the trans/formative powers of change look like? Whose touch do they desire/require? What temperature is their pictorial climate? How might we activate our art-and-change-making capacities responsibly to cultivate and practice freedom(s), and see — look — think — live — act differently? What can photography offer in moments of precarity — a visual blanket, shield, or embrace? What might a photographic shelter look like? In times of global turmoil that require critical action on many fronts, with human rights violations abound, what kinds of images — or image bodies — activate change, internal or external, collective and individual? How might photography offer visual paths and possibilities to imag(in)ing otherwise?"

Selection

    • Mehrdad Mirzaie, The Women Revolution, Phoenix, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Mehrdad Mirzaie, The Women Revolution, Phoenix, USA, 2022
    • Ky Smiley, Untitled, Freedom Plaza, USA | DER GREIF
      Ky Smiley, Untitled, Freedom Plaza, USA
    • Katharina Karner, Gestern. Heute. Morgen. 19 - Gast, ca. 1986, Grein, Upper Austria, AUT, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Katharina Karner, Gestern. Heute. Morgen. 19 - Gast, ca. 1986, Grein, Upper Austria, AUT, 2023
    • Arielle Gray, Transference, New Haven, CT, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Arielle Gray, Transference, New Haven, CT, USA, 2023
    • Hannah Daigle, DAIGLE 01 1500.jpg - Print Ready, Brooklyn New York, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Hannah Daigle, DAIGLE 01 1500.jpg - Print Ready, Brooklyn New York, USA, 2023
    • Les Chevaliers Photographes, And tomorrow will be tenderness #3, Paris, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Les Chevaliers Photographes, And tomorrow will be tenderness #3, Paris, FRA, 2023
    • Cara Judea Alhadeff, The Stranger Within, Hambidge Artist Residency, USA | DER GREIF
      Cara Judea Alhadeff, The Stranger Within, Hambidge Artist Residency, USA
    • Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch dancing in drag on inma (Aputula, 2019), Aputula, AUS, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch dancing in drag on inma (Aputula, 2019), Aputula, AUS, 2019
    • Heather Agyepong,  D is for...(Triptych) ego death, Commissioned by Jerwood Arts & Photoworks, London, GBR, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Heather Agyepong, D is for...(Triptych) ego death, Commissioned by Jerwood Arts & Photoworks, London, GBR, 2022
    • Wara Vargas, Wara Vargas 1, La Paz, BOL, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Wara Vargas, Wara Vargas 1, La Paz, BOL, 2022
    • Jennifer Cabral, Bedridden 08, Global North, BRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Jennifer Cabral, Bedridden 08, Global North, BRA, 2023
    • Edu Leon, When everyone leaves. Moroccan earthquake., Tassila, MAR, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Edu Leon, When everyone leaves. Moroccan earthquake., Tassila, MAR, 2023
    • João Barreiros, Bonifácio & Albino, the Lovers, Nampula, MOZ, 2023 | DER GREIF
      João Barreiros, Bonifácio & Albino, the Lovers, Nampula, MOZ, 2023
    • Rox Klijn, Dexter op hun bed (2023), Utrecht, NLD, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Rox Klijn, Dexter op hun bed (2023), Utrecht, NLD, 2023
    • João Barreiros, Cisney, the Activist, Beira, MOZ, 2023 | DER GREIF
      João Barreiros, Cisney, the Activist, Beira, MOZ, 2023
    • Mathis Benestebe, Erinlé, 1, Toulouse, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Mathis Benestebe, Erinlé, 1, Toulouse, FRA, 2023
    • C. Rose Smith, Untitled no. 73, Redcliffe Plantation, Beech Island, SC, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      C. Rose Smith, Untitled no. 73, Redcliffe Plantation, Beech Island, SC, USA, 2023
    • Marvel Harris, Days Like These, 2020., Virton, BEL, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Marvel Harris, Days Like These, 2020., Virton, BEL, 2020
    • Mayya Kelova, Untitled-05, Paris, FRA, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Mayya Kelova, Untitled-05, Paris, FRA, 2021
    • Prins de Vos, Mika, Rotterdam, NLD, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Prins de Vos, Mika, Rotterdam, NLD, 2023
    • Marie Le Moigne, Cœur Blessé, Bretagne, FRA | DER GREIF
      Marie Le Moigne, Cœur Blessé, Bretagne, FRA
    • Mykle Parker,  Rage 4 Right 005, Los Angeles, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Mykle Parker, Rage 4 Right 005, Los Angeles, USA, 2022
    • Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, The Looted Honor, Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox’s Bazar, BGD, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, The Looted Honor, Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox’s Bazar, BGD, 2018
    • Damien Jélaine, "The Neckbone Paradox", Guadeloupe, GLP, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Damien Jélaine, "The Neckbone Paradox", Guadeloupe, GLP, 2020
    • Xanthe Hutchinson, Cover me, Milan/Leeds, GBR, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Xanthe Hutchinson, Cover me, Milan/Leeds, GBR, 2020
    • Camille Farrah Lenain, Farid and the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille, FRA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Camille Farrah Lenain, Farid and the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille, FRA, 2023
    • Barbara Minishi, The 13th Path: Psalms Of The Liminal 12, Nairobi, KEN, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Barbara Minishi, The 13th Path: Psalms Of The Liminal 12, Nairobi, KEN, 2022
    • Taiye Godbody, Metamorphosis, Nairobi, KEN, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Taiye Godbody, Metamorphosis, Nairobi, KEN, 2023
    • Sethembile Msezane, Moving Towards the Agape (detail), Ether, ZAF, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Sethembile Msezane, Moving Towards the Agape (detail), Ether, ZAF, 2024
    • Niklas Viola, Picter 2, Hannover, DEU, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Niklas Viola, Picter 2, Hannover, DEU, 2022
    • Thero Makepe, The Morning of Ruins, Gaborone, BWA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Thero Makepe, The Morning of Ruins, Gaborone, BWA, 2020
    • Yana Hryhorenko, 8, Trypillya, UKR, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Yana Hryhorenko, 8, Trypillya, UKR, 2022
    • Sabes Sugunasabesan,  Hand holding photo of woman with injured child aganist landscape, In the war zone many years after the the war, LKA, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Sabes Sugunasabesan, Hand holding photo of woman with injured child aganist landscape, In the war zone many years after the the war, LKA, 2016
    • Anton Shebetko, Anton Shebetko, Maks from We Were Here, C-print on dibond, 80x120cm, 2018.jpg, Kyiv, UKR | DER GREIF
      Anton Shebetko, Anton Shebetko, Maks from We Were Here, C-print on dibond, 80x120cm, 2018.jpg, Kyiv, UKR
    • Lola Flash, Highly Favoured, Florida Everglades, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Lola Flash, Highly Favoured, Florida Everglades, USA, 2022
    • Masina Pinheiro, Helium gas cylinder, two folds of muscles, Rio de Janeiro, BRA, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Masina Pinheiro, Helium gas cylinder, two folds of muscles, Rio de Janeiro, BRA, 2024
    • Aubane Berthommé Martinez, A strange present, Netherlands, France, Spain, Algeria, NLD | DER GREIF
      Aubane Berthommé Martinez, A strange present, Netherlands, France, Spain, Algeria, NLD
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      Naa Teki Martey Lebar, Übung I, Greece, AUT, 2022
    • Monica de Miranda, Whistle for the <wind, Alentejo, POR, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Monica de Miranda, Whistle for the <wind, Alentejo, POR, 2022
    • Ross Gerhold, Rubber Bullet Bruise, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Ross Gerhold, Rubber Bullet Bruise, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 2020
    • Anna Korbut, Dream of you and mountains 8, Georgia, Kazbek mountains, GEO, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Anna Korbut, Dream of you and mountains 8, Georgia, Kazbek mountains, GEO, 2023
    • Ramak Bamzar, Pro Femina - Scene 2, Melbourne, AUS, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Ramak Bamzar, Pro Femina - Scene 2, Melbourne, AUS, 2023
    • Tamara Blake Chapman, Cloak and dagger, New York, USA | DER GREIF
      Tamara Blake Chapman, Cloak and dagger, New York, USA
    • Xanthe Hutchinson, Bruises, Leeds, GBR, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Xanthe Hutchinson, Bruises, Leeds, GBR, 2019
    • Ky Smiley, Kysaan & Ky, 2023, Columbus, Ohio, USA | DER GREIF
      Ky Smiley, Kysaan & Ky, 2023, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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