Unnamed Series – thoughts on images that should not have been made
Auditório do Pavilhão Sul da FBAUP, 5º feira, 2 de Maio de 2024 17 h
In her talk, Ines Schaber will focus on a work that she conducted together with the artist Stefan Pente from 2009-11. unnamed series features a succession of artworks provoked by photographs that art historian Aby Warburg had taken as part of his travels to the Hopi Indians in 1898. Warburg noted that the images should never be published, but in the 1990s, the Warburg Institute in London made the images available as part of a glossy hardcover book. The art work and an accompanying text circulate around a series of aspects that the encounter between Warburg and the Hopis evokes.
Ines Schaber is a visual artist based in Berlin. For almost twenty years, she has worked on the notion of the archive through which she has examined a set of questions underlying archival photographic practices. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a practice in which the set of problems that archives produce is in fact part of the process one engages in. The projects, case studies, writings, and artistic works she has produced in relation to these questions seek to trace alternate archival practices. Ines Schaber has, from 2014–2021, taught at the California Institute of the Arts in the School of Art, Program of Photography and Media, and since 2021, she teaches at the Art Academy in Leipzig, in the Program of Photography.