{"id":7723,"date":"2018-01-20T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2024-02-18T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T06:22:41","slug":"an-instinct-for-surprise-dont-know-the-reason-i-just-like-it-jakrin-von-bueren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7723","title":{"rendered":"An Instinct for Surprise (Don\u2019t Know the Reason, I Just Like It) \/ Jakrin von Bueren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu Photo Gallery<\/p>\n

is proud to present<\/p>\n

Project New Visions # 4<\/p>\n

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An Instinct for Surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Don\u2019t Know the Reason, I Just Like It<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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A Photographic Exhibition by<\/p>\n

Jakrin von Bueren<\/strong><\/p>\n

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10 March \u2013 28 April 2018<\/p>\n

(Opening party Sat 10 Mar from 6.30 \u2013 9.00 pm)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jakrin von Bueren immerses, doing to his negatives what he does with own soul. He absorbs the pageantry of life like a porous leaf in sunshine, to transmit to us sublimely instinctive images that transcend their initial impulse. In a field worn out by imitation and cross-imitation, how rare to discover a hatchling self-identified fashion photographer with a totally fresh eye, becoming himself the source of creativity and inspiration; an artist.<\/p>\n

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One catches fashion like a disease, through sensory contact. Like the other arts but on the literally superficial level, the dimension of appearances, fashion reflects the emanations of the world at a given moment. Originators of designs and looks that others copy send out their feelers to be seduced by the sensory conversation. As with Shakespearean synesthesia, they can hear colours and see sounds, taste good and evil and sniff out fake memes and real. Jakrin talks to us wordlessly of ideas and ideals through singing colours and visual sounds, through youth and the acidic ravages of time.<\/p>\n

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New Projects Curator Manit Sriwanichpoom<\/strong>: \u201cJakrin\u2019s photographs are fresh and vibrant with the energy of youth yet simultaneously imbued with alchemy, spiritual and physical; he has the guts to take crazy risks to achieve interesting work.\u00a0 His portraits of his models and his friends revive our memories of what it was like to be a teenager. Immaculate faces unlined by life contradict eyes full of anxiety over future uncertainties; they can struggle meanwhile to search for identity through fashionable clothes. To get at what is beyond such superficial expression, Jakrin corrodes his black and white negatives with bleach and vinegar, sometimes immersing them for months to rot and ripen in extraordinary ways, as in the series<\/em> \u2018Decay: Degeneration of All Things\u2019 (2015) and<\/em> \u2018Skinheads: A Political Statement Turned Fashion Subculture\u2019 (2016). Even now, the source negatives<\/em> of these pictures are still continuing their transformation.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jakrin von Bueren<\/strong> is a man of few words, but he rejects digital photography because \u201cI like not being able to see the images immediately\u2014I like the surprise when I see my work later. For the rotten effects, the vinegar and rusting wire wool, the bleaching, the words of peace from the Bible, Psalm 46\/9: \u2018He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire\u2019\u2014I don\u2019t know the reason, I just like it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bangkok born and bred Thai-German Jakrin von Bueren<\/strong> (b.1998) is studying fashion photography at the London College of Fashion (LCF), University Arts of London, UK. This is his first solo show.<\/p>\n

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