Portrait of Paolo Cirio, 2016

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Paolo Cirio

Portrait of Janette Beckman

Jean and Chris, East Village, New York City, 1995

Salt-n-Pepa, New York City, 1987

Janette Beckman

Smile

Installation view 'Maktub' by MAryam Touzani in Foam Talent 2024-2025

What does it mean to use your teeth to find your family history? Born and raised in the Netherlands, MAryam Touzani examines her own teeth to come closer to her family and to find out whether her family truly existed.

Foam Talent Digital 2024-2025

MAryam Touzani

Image from the series Frantz Fanon, Me and The Question, 2022

Installation view 'Frantz Fanon, Me and The Questions' by Issam Larkat in Foam Talent 2024-2025

To a large degree self-taught, there is in Larkat's work a fierce commitment to creating images not only of but for his Algerian and African counterparts; within aesthetics that portray the poor living in 'native towns', individuals neglected and discarded as irrelevant waste by both Europe and their own government.

Issam Larkat

From the series Broer (2017 – present)

Installation view of 'Broer' by Florian Braakman in Foam Talent 2024-2025

The sociopolitical impact of Braakman's work lies in its ability to tell a more nuanced story of migration, a story that looks beyond the often one-dimensional media narratives.

Florian Braakman

From the series A Study on Waitressing

Installation view 'A Study on Waitressing' by Eleonora Agostini in Foam Talent 2024-2025

In its staging, we observe Agostini's desire to use the image as a theatre for performativity, where the line between performance and reality wears thin.

Eleonora Agostini

From the series People of Clay

Installation view 'People of Clay' by Akshay Mahajan in Foam Talent 2024-2025

The photographs of Akshay Mahajan reveal a different India, an India that represents a complex present: a landscape in which even all that is modern contains within it, like a big river, layers of sediments that make up the past - folk traditions, regional identities, colonial histories, religious practices that go back to primitive times.

Akshay Mahajan

Palm Trees, from the series Las Flores Mueren Dos Veces. Data bending on archival photography.

Installation view 'Las Flores Mueren Dos Veces' by Cristóbal Ascencio in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Cristóbal Ascencio’s ‘Las flores mueren dos veces’ (‘Flowers die twice’, in Spanish) questions photography’s function as a tool for memory while exploring alternative narratives and aesthetics brought by digital technology.

Cristóbal Ascencio

Untitled (BLM arrows I)

Installation view 'High Visibility / Blaze Orange' by Jaclyn Wright in Foam Talent 2024-2025

[Wright's project] 'High visibility (Blaze Orange)' represents the development of the ecofeminist perspective that has underpinned much of Wright's work, and a turning of her lens towards the broader plains–conceptually, visually, and historically—on which grasps for power are made.

Jaclyn Wright

Egg Glitch. From the series American Glitch

Installation view 'American Glitch' by Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein in Foam Talent 2024-2025

For Orejarena and Stein, the notion of glitch proves fruitful framework for reflecting on many questions, not least on the ubiquitous medium of photography and its changing meaning and purpose in the screen age – where the’ poor image’, in Hito Steyerl’s term, circulates in unfathomable quantities.

Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein

Untitled from Eyes Dazzle As they Search for The Truth.

Installation view 'Eyes Dazzle As They Search For The Truth' by Amin Yousefi in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Re-photographing (...) makes us look slower and closer, accepting what cannot be known but must be thought, nonetheless. It keeps the door open.

Amin Yousefi

BL!NG from the series BLACK SNAFU, 2022

Installation view 'BLACK SNAFU' by André Ramos-Woodard in Foam Talent 2024-2025

The artist's subtle (and warm) colour photographs are attractive, visually appealing, and well-made. However, their 'Lordean rage' (as called by Myisha Cherry) against history appears synonymous with the history of Black thought and Black art.

André Ramos-Woodard

In a sandstone mine 1 from the series This isn't Divide and Conquer

Installation view 'This Isn't Divide and Conquer' by Aaryan Sinha in Foam Talent 2024-2025

[Sinha's] work meditates over the echoes of trauma that lie etched in the landscape and reified in objects and relics that were once witnesses to the violence and terror.

Aaryan Sinha

From the series The Dispossessed

Cansu Yıldıran's artistic practice focuses on provoking thoughts and establishing emotional connections with the audience. Through their unique narrative style and visual aesthetics, they aim to explore the depths of meaning in everyday life.

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Cansu Yıldıran

The father of a three-year-old boy who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in north-west China said strict Covid-19 policies “indirectly killed” his son by causing delays obtaining treatment.

Installation view 'Magic Wand Tool' by Xin Li in Foam Talent 2024-2025

We can see consistent language in the artist’s photographic trajectory. From his use of Photoshop’s Patch tool to ‘repair’ images of Shanghai cityscapes (The Patch Tool, 2002) to the use of CGI technology to simulate the dynamics and texture of red tape (Red Tape Spectacle, 2023) and the use of the Magic Wand tool to outline various environments for the collected photographs (Magic Wand Tool, 2023), it indicates a deliberate progression towards integrating advanced digitale techniques to redefine the photographic narrative.

Xin Li

Re A Hlopela (Tombstone Unveiling) from the series We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here, 2019

Installation view 'We Didn't Choose to Be Born Here' by Thero Makepe in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Delving into intimate moments, Makepe recreates family scenes as fragments of nostalgia and truth-telling, anchoring the past with the present. Through this visual dialogue across time, he stitches together the torn fabric of his family’s story, breathing life into faded memories.

Thero Makepe

Facial landmarks (2023), from the series Interfaces of Predictions

Installation view '(Inter)Faces of Predictions' by Sheung Yiu in Foam Talent 2024-2025

The artistic practice of artist Sheung You revolves around the concept of ‘ground truth’, a seemingly stable basis that, when viewed through technology,  reveals its fluidity.

Sheung Yiu

Installation view of 'POST' by Sander Coers in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Sander Coers

From the series I Do Miss Hospital Visit

Installation view 'I Do Miss Hospital Visit' by Shwe Wutt Hmon in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Initiated in 2020, during the pandemic and the isolation it brought along with it, 'I Do Miss Hospital Visit' is an artist's reckoning with her lifelong health condition and the psychological impact of not being able to access healthcare because of Covid-19-related restrictions.

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Breaking (John & Timme), 2021

Installation view 'autobiographies' by Ricardo Nagaoka in Foam Talent 2024-2025

(...) Nagaoka explores a range of interpretations of masculinity: either aggressive, brute, virile, or vulnerable and tender, and everything in between. If anything, the portraits are a critique of the toxic aspects of masculinity.

Ricardo Nagaoka

From the series The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

Installation view 'The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken' by Rehab Eldalil in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Spanning ten years of on-field research, participatory creative experimentation, and exchanges with the members of the community, [Eldalil's project] 'The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken' is an investigation into Bedouin culture as seen, drawn, recited, and practised by Sinai's oldest inhabitants.

Rehab Eldalil

Quinceañera, from the series Madre

Installation view 'MADRE / PADRE' by Marisol Mendez in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Installation view 'MADRE / PADRE ' by Marisol Mendez in Foam Talent 2024-2025

Through personal and visual encounters with the stories of the women around her, Mendez has been able to create a photo book that is eclectic, intimate yet socially resonant, and simultaneously public but uniquely individual.

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