Featuring: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Yason Banal, Gaston Damag, Roberto Feleo, Riel Hilario, Kat Medina, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, John Frank Sabado, Mark Salvatus

Group 5: Powers That Be
January 10 – February 16, 2014
The Drawing Room
Blk 5 Lock Road
Singapore
drawingroomgallery.com

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Because the World is Round, It Turns Me On
November 14, 2013 – January 11, 2014
Arratia Beer
Potsdamer Str. 87
D-10785 Berlin, Germany
arratiabeer.com

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Image courtesy of Campagne Premiere

Featuring: Pep Agut, Eric Baudelaire, Matthew Buckingham, Marianna Christofides, Simon Fujiwara, Vittorio Santoro, Shira Wachsmann

Campagne Premiere
Archaeologies of the Future 2
November 16 2013 – January 4 2014
Campagne Première GmbH
Chausseestrasse 116
D-10115 Berlin Germany
campagne-premiere.com

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Image courtesy of Galerie Bart

Featuring: Kevin Bauer, Frank Blommestijin & Michiel van der Werf, Janneke Bolt, Dario Bongiovanni, Jonah Falke, Thijs Jager, Evelien Jaspers, Sara Koning, Nynke Koster, Naomi Souwen

Galerie Bart
Nieuwe Oogst ’13
November 11 – December 14 2013
Elandsgracht 16
1016 TW Amsterdam
galeriebart.nl

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Image courtesy of Circle Culture Gallery

Featuring: Maya Hayuk, Stefan Strumbel, Marco “Pho” Grassi, Teo “Moneyless” Pirisi

POTSE 68
Circle Culture Gallery
November 9 2013 – January 8 2014
Potsdamer Straße 68, 2nd courtyard
10785 Berlin, Germany
circleculture-gallery.com

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Image courtesy of Galerie Max Hetzler

Featuring: Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Remember Everything
Galerie Max Hetzler
November 10 – December 21, 2013
Oudenarder Straße 16-20
D-13347 Berlin
maxhetzler.com

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Brea Souder’s Sunburn in Naples (2010) teeters between a staged photograph and a minimalist painting. From far away the photograph dissolves into a hazy array of colors that are balanced perfectly by the images overall symmetry and delicate construction. The distilled elegance of the photograph immediately recalls the prints of Katsushika Hokusai. However, as you get closer to the piece—the head in the center of the image becomes incredibly massive and tactile. It is as if you can just barely run your fingers through the woman’s brown, sun-kissed hair; you can almost locate the salt in between the strands. The smell of hot summer afternoons and that damp mineral taste of sand linger on her burnt skin.

Slava Mogutin, Paradise Superm: Brian Bending, 2012. Image courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art

Making Waves also showcases five efficacious images from Slava Mogutin’s series Paradise Superm (2012).  In Brian Bending (2012), the naked male body is transformed through a slow dissolve. The body is reprinted, reversed, and divided against beached driftwood. The dissident textures of the idyllic masculine form, against the naturalistic, callus setting galvanizes the tension within the piece. It is most concentrated within the folds of the overlapping body parts. The male form, as object, crouches and hunches his shoulders forward, concealing his face from the viewer. The body clashes with nature, and even with itself in this image, alluding to discordant social norms and binary gender roles that are confronted throughout the series’ entirety.

This provocative collection of photographs is definitely making waves. Not only is it unapologetically voyeuristic and raunchy, but forces its audience to look beyond the skin tight bathing suits and bare-chested babes—capturing intimate, yet collective perceptions on the expectations of the body through experience. Making Waves confronts those experiences on the beach or in the pool, where the body is unabashedly on display.

By Ashley Temple

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