Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare The medium suits the story—images

The medium suits the story—images hold mystery

Adél Koleszár’s Only Have Faith explores the violence that has plagued Mexico over the past two decades

dramaturgy

in versions that are painted (on glass) or embroidered (by his mother) and the distinction between the copy and the original doesn’t interest him in the slightest

and on the value of fiction in our daily lives

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare The medium suits the story—imagesPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective