Foam Amsterdam presents four exibitions. The Enclave is an installation of six screens which represent the conflict situation in Congo, shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in psychedelic magenta-coloured sites of the jungle warzone. Adding, Adding, Adding is by Swiss illusionists Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs. The Citadel presents revealing photographs by Iranian Kaveh Golestan. And Ola Lanko's All Year Round is a 365-image restrospective of a year.

21 March – 1 June 2014
Richard Mosse - The Enclave
Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse (1980), a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2013. The installation consists of six screens which represent the conflict situation in Congo, shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle warzone. In addition to the film installation, related photo works are shown. Throughout 2012 and 2013, Richard Mosse, Trevor Tweeten (filmmaker) and Ben Frost (music producer) travelled through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrating a war zone with armed rebel groups, plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence. The resulting installation is the culmination of Mosse’s attempt to rethink war photography and a search for more effective strategies to represent this forgotten African tragedy. According to the International Rescue Committee, at least 5.4 million people died in eastern Congo since 1998. The Enclave immerses the viewer in a confronting and sinister world, exploring the role and use of aesthetics in a situation of profound human suffering.
http://foam.org/press/2014/richard-mosse

21 March – 11 May 2014
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs – Adding, Adding, Adding
In 2013, the annual Foam Paul Huf Award was awarded to the Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (b. 1979). The international jury was deeply impressed: “As true illusionists intent on pushing against the boundaries of the medium, Onorato & Krebs skillfully engage their audiences and convey some of the magic that lies at the core of photographic image-making.” Foam is proud to present Adding, Adding, Adding including brand new work by this duo, as part of the award. Onorato & Krebs have been working together on a variety of projects on the cutting edge of photography, sculpture and installation since 2003. Few subjects remain untouched in their complex, yet highly accessible work, in which reality collides with fiction while humour converges with seriousness. In 2012, rising stars Onorato & Krebs presented their work in Foam for the first time. In Adding, Adding, Adding new films will be presented that are built on the play between illusion and reality in urban spaces. Exclusively for Foam, a site-specific installation is set up in the garden.
http://foam.org/press/2014/taiyo-onorato-nico-krebs

21 March – 4 May 2014
Kaveh Golestan – The Citadel
Foam is proud to present the revealing photographs by Kaveh Golestan (1950-2003). Golestan was an important and prolific Iranian documentary photographer and a pioneer of street photography. His photographic practice has hugely influenced the work of future generations of Iranian artists but has remained seriously over-looked in Europe. Kaveh Golestan – The Citadel presents 45 vintage photographs from the series entitled Prostitute. These photographs of women working in the Citadel of Shahr-e No, the red light district of Teheran, were taken between 1975 and 1977. His portraits offer an intimate and humane glimpse into the lives of the female residents. The district of the Citadel was set on fire and demolished shortly after the Iranian revolution in 1979 through a decree issued by Ayatollah Khomeini. The photographs made by Kaveh Golestan are the only traces left of these women and the Citadel.
http://foam.org/press/2014/kaveh-golestan

21 March - 7 May 2014
Foam 3h: Ola Lanko - All Year Round
Ola Lanko (1985) presents a new project that investigates and depicts the notion of time in an unusual manner. Her work comprises 365 photographs offering a literal retrospective of a year. The project is presented as an installation that gives the opportunity to experience time and its passing as momentum as well as a continuous and repetitive process where day and night, nature and weather conditions alternate in a natural way. In her project, Lanko combines the mechanical rationalism of the camera with a romantic sense of transience.
http://foam.org/press/2014/ola-lanko