İİThe luminous, articulated and subtly subversive photographs of Daniel Blochwitz will be exhibited from November 1st to December 1st at Safe-T-Gallery in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn in a show called “Mixed Messages.” Each piece in the show consists of a grid of from 15 to 25 inter-related color photographs, each panel functioning as a commentary or foil for the meanings and contexts of all the surrounding views. The images inter-relate both in their content (which is often textual), as well as in the structural elements of the pictures, the lines, shapes and colors. The resulting assemblage of combined images forms a witty pictorial maze that leads the viewer into new and unexpected insights both about current affairs and about the way that we perceive our super-saturated urban environment.
Daniel Blochwitz was born in East Germany and came to study in the US in 1995. He writes, “Being part of a generation that grows up between cultures, ideologies, and continents ... fuels my investigations into the meaning of home and belonging, patterns of migration and borders, aspects of class and economic divides, and representations of signs and language.” His work displays the impact of analytic/conceptual photographers such as Martha Rosler and Allen Sekula, but he brings a sharper, more contemporary sensibility to his work. Not burdened by the separation between traditional photographic traditions and the digital world, his work is nurtured, not constrained, by it’s dialogue with the theoretical and political belief systems of the recent past.
Daniel Blochwitz received his MFA from the University of Florida in 2003 and went on to the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Arts in New York. He has shown work in the US and Europe and worked with Martha Rosler and the FLEAS Collective at the 2003 Venice Bienniale. He currently lives and works in New York City. “Mixed Messages” will be his first one-person show in New York.
