Erik Kessels : Album Beauty

8 Mar-26 May 2013

Overview

Album Beauty is an xhibition of found photographs curated by Erik Kessels, which is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album. Once commonplace in every home, the photo-album has been replaced by the digital age where images are now jpegs and live online and in hard drives. These visual narratives are testament to the once universal appeal to document and display the mundane. Often a repository for family history, they usually represent a manufactured family as edited for display, the albums speak of birth, death, beauty, sexuality, pride, happiness, youth, competition, exploration, complicity and friendship. Album Beauty is curated by Erik Kessels in collaboration with Foam Amsterdam.