Idris Khan

Idris Khan creates big multi-layered prints, often using existing photographs, postcards, paintings or books. Each layer is visible and adds to the eery feeling. He reinvents the existing image, adding his own personal touch. It might look like a drawing, as it has the same handmade feel to it. Idris Khan was born in Great Britain.
Idris Khan: "Every layer is an effect that needs to be created. All the scans are done at 100% and then I choose the amount of opacity I wish to have with every layer. Each layer is a fallible human decision. When I layer each scan, there is a decision made as to what I want to stay and what has to disappear. This process allows me to cut out the camera completely." Read more here.

David Birkin

David Birkin (1977) studied anthropology at Oxford University and fine art at the Slade.  Currently on a fellowship with the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, he is based between New York and London. Coming from a family of artists and married to performance artist Eloise Fornieles. He even appeared in two episodes of Star Trek; the next generation.

These works from the series "Confessions" were taken between 2007 and 2011.
David Birkin; "sitters were invited to confess a secret they had never previously revealed, while left alone in a room facing a camera. When they felt ready, they opened the shutter, and when they were finished they closed it again, so that each photograph’s exposure was determined by the length of time its subject chose to speak.  In the absence of any audio recording equipment, the sitters' confessions are documented without revealing their specific content."
All prints are C-type / gelatin silver prints; 60 x 40 inches. Quite impressive. The intimate poses , movement and deep black parts make you wonder, what is the content of their confession.... even more,  what would your own image look like.

Ethan Murrow

Ethan Murrow is an American artist active in film, performance, photography and drawing. I love his large-scale graphite drawings, filled with impossible figures, in search of absurd adventures.

Ethan Murrow: "Despite a focus on working with others, the characters in recent narratives have been consistently averse to criticism and assistance. These figures, mostly male, are doomed to failure and prone to dysfunction. “Zero Sum Pilot,” for example, follows one man’s rigorous and suspect training for unknown aerial goals. He obtains sustained movement through the air, at cost. These are cautionary tales, cynical nods to the pitfalls of egotism and obsessive drive. Since I often play the central character in these dramas I intentionally implicate myself in the conflagration that the protagonists create around themselves. I mean to do this with a nod to Charlie Chaplain, who understood that idiocy is inevitable and our own role in it is assured."

Fujui Wang (aka Ching-Shen-Ching)

Fujui Wang is the pioneer of Sound Art in Taiwan, who established the first experimental sound zine/label NOISE/Taiwan in 1993. His sound installations are  beautiful, intriguing  and sometimes interactive. 

 Murmurs, 2013

 Noise Tube, 2014

Hollow Noise, 2011

Hollow Noise - Fujui Wang from Sound Watch on Vimeo.

Perceived Soundscape (2012)- Fujui Wang from Sound Watch on Vimeo.

Daniel Firman

Daniel Firman lives and works in Lyon, France. Conceptual art, sculptures or installations ? or all of the above. Wursa, the sculpture of an elephant balancing on its trunk 18,000 km above the earth. Or better gravity would allow it 18,000 km up in the air.

 Wursa (above) and Nasutamanus (below)

Daniel's plaster sculptures are paused, waiting to move on. You wonder what their next move will be. Full of humor and a bit absurd, and never showing their face.  

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Julia Fullerton-Batten from the 'personal' series. She was born in Bremen, Germany. Living and working in London. After her studies she worked as an assistant to different photographer for about five years.
She got a very distinctive style, using complex lightning techniques. The unique combining of natural and artificial light (and cross lighting) stands for the unearthly feeling. It feels like a fantasy you want to explore, a mysterious moment in time. Pictures with a hidden story, teasing you to have another glimpse.

Chalermchai Kositpipat update

The beautiful 'White Temple' (Wat Rong Khun) was damaged by the earthquake on may 6, 2014. The walls of the main building are cracked and the paintings came off the wall. If the structure is intact Chalermchai Kositpipat will repair and repaint the walls. The artist started his project in 1996, and it took him the better part of two years to paint the inside of Wat Rong Khun. Some parts of the complex will have to be demolished, and for now the 'White Temple' is closed to visitors. Here is an article from the Bangkok post giving the more details.

pictures - facebook and Bangkok post