Programmed as part of Glasgow International 2016
A solo exhibition by German artist Catrine Val which will premiere a new collection of staged photoworks around the theme of Women in Philosophy, including some new work specific to Scotland and the theme.
Val’s project is driven by the concern that contemporary culture is influenced by the interaction of science, economy, politics but what is needed at this juncture is a renewed interest in humanity and the production of knowledge.
By laying the artistic focus on philosophy and staging it contemporarily, a self-reflexive search is intended, integrating the cultural and historical positions of philosophy as starting points and references, interpreting it and challenging it artistically. In an effort to nuance both the questions and the answers, the conceptual task of this project is to celebrate the presence of independent female thinkers, reformers and mystics, through time and to reimagine their appearance in Europe.
Val has exhibited widely across Europe and in Taiwan. In 2012, she was shortlisted for the Renaissance Photography Prize and was also a runner-up for the Kaunas Photo Star Prize. Her recent project “Feminist” has been made into a hardback book, published in 2012 by Kehrer, Germany and was nominated for the German Fotobuchpreis 2013.
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