Froese & Petit: Standing Still and Moving Forward

Monday, February 01, 2010

Phnom Penh: This will be on Thursday at seven pm this week at Meta House. Joachim Froese is an art photographer who lives and works in Berlin and Brisbane where he also teaches photography at the Queensland College of Art. Over the last 10 years his work has concentrated on the photographic still life. These laboriously assembled constructs are inspired by art history and his life as a migrant. Tonight he will present his method and scope of work. Froese’s talk is followed by the doc film “MAN ON WIRE” by James Marsh (2008, 94mins). On August 7th, 1974, a Frenchman named Philippe committed “the artistic crime of the century”. He stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center’s twin towers.