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    Guest Room:
    Christiane Monarchi & Eva Eicker

    Guest Room is dedicated to igniting collaboration. Christiane Monarchi, the founding co-editor of Hapax Magazine and founding editor of Photomonitor, is teaming up with curator Eva Eicker, an expert focusing on social and cultural issues for critical engagement with contemporary photography.

    For this edition of Guest Room, they have crafted the guiding framework: "Wortbildsalat / word-image-salad." Christiane Monarchi and Eva Eicker extend an invitation to create a communal poem, whose image-text interplay evolves throughout the 15 days of the online curation.

    This theme draws inspiration from Surrealist salons, reflecting the artistic practices of figures such as André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, who famously collaborated on "cadavre exquis" or "exquisite corpse" creations, merging words or drawings.

    Artists are invited to submit images accompanied by a caption formed of a line of text or another form of language experiment which can act as a gateway into an internal world. We welcome you to share an inner experience of the submitted photograph with us and join in crafting a photographic "Wordbildsalat / word-image-salad".

    Each day’s curation of selected images will generate an experimental image-based poem inviting readers along on a journey of connections between visual and linguistic cues. In juxtaposing the internal and visible world, this Guest Room curation will be an artwork in its entirety, unfolding as a 15-part love letter to inner worlds accessed through the photographic.

    Selection

      • Kat Wood, untitled, Stockport, GBR, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Kat Wood, untitled, Stockport, GBR, 2024
      • Every evening, I practice candling, which involves shining a bright light behind an egg to observe the growth and development of the embryo inside.
      • Coco Martin, geometric portrait, friend's home, USA | DER GREIF
        Coco Martin, geometric portrait, friend's home, USA
      • your light can cut my heart in two pieces
      • Naïs Madec, Achille & x, Tanger, MOR, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Naïs Madec, Achille & x, Tanger, MOR, 2024
      • Unveil-able love in the land of hypocritical emotions.
      • John Francis, J_Francis.jpg, Boise, Idaho, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        John Francis, J_Francis.jpg, Boise, Idaho, USA, 2023
      • It hastens from the light of recognition. Sometimes I feel there are things that exist in the liminal space of what I think of as reality and another normally hidden and unseen space.
      • Chris Gould, 22.09.17.b, Sea Horizon Series, New Harbor, Maine, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Chris Gould, 22.09.17.b, Sea Horizon Series, New Harbor, Maine, USA, 2022
      • “I am not sure that I exist, actually; I talk to God but the sky is empty.” -Jorge Luis Borges / Sylvia Plath. AI Mixed quote.
      • Jennifer Cabral, borderline 01, New Jersey, USA, 2017 | DER GREIF
        Jennifer Cabral, borderline 01, New Jersey, USA, 2017
      • I am a vast territory, you will never own.
      • Nina Wells, synonyms of change 3, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Nina Wells, synonyms of change 3, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2023
      • RENEW
      • Arturo Soto, Untitled, GBR, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Arturo Soto, Untitled, GBR, 2020
      • “In the near future, when we are no more, words will continue to whisper our failures”
      • Stella McGarvey, Lovers, Certaldo, Tuscany, ITA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Stella McGarvey, Lovers, Certaldo, Tuscany, ITA, 2023
      • 'Though writing only gives me the full measure of my silence'
      • Bella Tozini, Pauli Tattoo, Bragança Paulista, BRA, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Bella Tozini, Pauli Tattoo, Bragança Paulista, BRA, 2024
      • Ama o que te treme as mãos ( Love what shivers your hands )
      • Asiya Al. Sharabi, Alsharabi_A_01, Sana'a, YEM, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Asiya Al. Sharabi, Alsharabi_A_01, Sana'a, YEM, 2023
      • Written in her tender script, a lifeline to another's voice.
      • Paula Rae Gibson, hanging onto a thread to believe in rare things, London, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Paula Rae Gibson, hanging onto a thread to believe in rare things, London, GBR, 2023
      • believing ....we will keep ....
      • Pippa Healy, It was at this moment, Richmond Park, GBR, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Pippa Healy, It was at this moment, Richmond Park, GBR, 2020
      • It was at this moment
      • Alice Duncan, Mungo Lumen (two) copy, Lake Mungo, AUS, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Alice Duncan, Mungo Lumen (two) copy, Lake Mungo, AUS, 2023
      • Lance and I walked along the sand dune. He suggested not to visit in summer when the temperature gets to fifty three degrees. I took the negative out of my pocket and let the sun burn it onto the paper.
      • Jenny Lewis, Untitled 5 from the series UnBecoming, London, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Jenny Lewis, Untitled 5 from the series UnBecoming, London, GBR, 2023
      • Childlike delight dances in my eyeline, nudging me forward, enticing me to notice what i seem to have overlooked.
      • Maryam Rajabzadeh, 02, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, IRN, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Maryam Rajabzadeh, 02, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, IRN, 2022
      • Oh, thou, who man of baser earth didst make/ and who with Eden didst devise the snake/ for all the sin wherewith the face of man/ is blackened, man's forgiveness give-and take!
      • Bidyudipta Chanda, Two women, IND, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Bidyudipta Chanda, Two women, IND, 2023
      • the clay man survives
      • Robin Cracknell, Loving couples, Littleton, MA, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Robin Cracknell, Loving couples, Littleton, MA, USA, 2021
      • The noise you hear
      • Ian Tevo, El Refugio (3), Nightclub "El Refugio" Historic center of Lima, PER, 2018 | DER GREIF
        Ian Tevo, El Refugio (3), Nightclub "El Refugio" Historic center of Lima, PER, 2018
      • At night, a swan reminds me how to begin.
      • Hanneke van Leeuwen, Ode, NLD, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Hanneke van Leeuwen, Ode, NLD, 2020
      • Act of Balance
      • Frederick Vidal, Wetterschenkeldichtung 7, Studio, DEU, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Frederick Vidal, Wetterschenkeldichtung 7, Studio, DEU, 2024
      • Wetterschenkeldichtung
      • Leslie Hickey, Chair and two lamps, Marnay-sur-Seine, FRA | DER GREIF
        Leslie Hickey, Chair and two lamps, Marnay-sur-Seine, FRA
      • 81 degrees, Mid-October and I always say that I never want summer to end, and here it is, a summer feeling, an endless high pressure arcing across the map and giving us day after day of sunshine at a low angle shadows casting deep and long.
      • Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Crude Extracts Four, East/West Midlands, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Crude Extracts Four, East/West Midlands, GBR, 2023
      • Do metals sting when you touch them? (Copper, Cobalt, Chromium...)
      • Elin O’Hara Slavick, The Agreement, The Fool, The Storm, Irvine, CA, USA, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Elin O’Hara Slavick, The Agreement, The Fool, The Storm, Irvine, CA, USA, 2024
      • The Agreement, The Fool, The Storm
      • Jana Knehr, love triangle, Stuttgart, DEU, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Jana Knehr, love triangle, Stuttgart, DEU, 2024
      • Love triangle: It's interesting how often we give words figurative meanings and call them metaphors. What we do less is breaking words down into their constituent parts, but when we do, we surprisingly discover a new and deeper meaning

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        Tshepiso Moropa, Monna le basadi ba babedi, Johannesburg, ZFA, 2023
      • Katlhagolela mooka yare ogolo wantlhaba [I looked after you as you grew up, yet when grown up you stabbed me]. The meaning is don’t bite the hand that fed you.
      • Christien Bijon Holden, Am I Performing or are They?, Brooklyn, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Christien Bijon Holden, Am I Performing or are They?, Brooklyn, USA, 2023
      • Is this true pleasure that we are engaging in, or is this a performance? And if so, who is the performer; me or you? Is my body your entertainment? Am I entertaining you?
      • Tim Rod, wohin er muss, World, ITA | DER GREIF
        Tim Rod, wohin er muss, World, ITA
      • Dann hat gar nichts mehr funktioniert. Ich wüsste gerne, wohin er muss so dringend. Immer etwas schneller als ich.
      • Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Untitled fro the "Satire" series, Mahabad, IRN, 2010 | DER GREIF
        Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Untitled fro the "Satire" series, Mahabad, IRN, 2010
      • If you sow horse seeds in the winter, you will reap a good harvest in the summer.
      • Jean Shon, Ahppa's Songbook: West Virginia / All For the Love of a Girl, Texas, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Jean Shon, Ahppa's Songbook: West Virginia / All For the Love of a Girl, Texas, USA, 2021
      • Home to the plate I belong
      • Lauren Daccache, Papa, Beirut, LBN, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Lauren Daccache, Papa, Beirut, LBN, 2023
      • smile, not recorded
      • Stella Asia Consonni, Dear Dad, New York, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Stella Asia Consonni, Dear Dad, New York, USA, 2021
      • The tender feeling of fatherhood I never knew. A silent tribute to the love I yearned for, now found in the embrace of others.
      • John Paul Evans, 4. hidden in plain sight-wallpaper quote, Devon, GBR, 2024 | DER GREIF
        John Paul Evans, 4. hidden in plain sight-wallpaper quote, Devon, GBR, 2024
      • hidden in plain sight
      • Maša Stanić, the perks of having a boyfriend, Berlin, DEU | DER GREIF
        Maša Stanić, the perks of having a boyfriend, Berlin, DEU
      • love u (written in cigarette butts)
      • Shreya Sahai, Saint Shreya's Room, New York, USA, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Shreya Sahai, Saint Shreya's Room, New York, USA, 2024
      • one day, you, too, shall fall on the pavement - regardless of how fragrant, soft, or beautiful you are - but no one will call it a tragedy because that is the way of nature
      • Nika Sandler, The Black Sun 05, Anau, TKM, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Nika Sandler, The Black Sun 05, Anau, TKM, 2022
      • Check it out while I burn your skull. (Laibach, «Hymn to the Black Sun»)
      • Hari Katragadda, Der Greif 2, Mumbai, IND, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Hari Katragadda, Der Greif 2, Mumbai, IND, 2021
      • "Then do you love me totally?" "I love you totally, tenderly, tragically"
      • Sujata Setia, “मेरी हद्द” (The premise of my existence), Ilford, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Sujata Setia, “मेरी हद्द” (The premise of my existence), Ilford, GBR, 2023
      • “मेरी हद्द” (The premise of my existence)
      • D. M. Terblanche, You Threatened My Cat, Potchefstroom, ZAF, 2024 | DER GREIF
        D. M. Terblanche, You Threatened My Cat, Potchefstroom, ZAF, 2024
      • You threatened my cat
      • Issam Larkat, Frantz Fanon, Me and the questions (2), Relizane, DZA, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Issam Larkat, Frantz Fanon, Me and the questions (2), Relizane, DZA, 2021
      • Inside the world of Fanon, I'm asking myself and others around me, What are the questions about the current state of our country and as an African continent?

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        Nina Maria Allmoslechner, natural wonder, Iceland, ISL, 2024
      • as I slowly get to truly feel this mystical land I happened to exist in with all its complexities pain and wonders what is there to find a light in oneself or in another human being another living thing a natural wonder
      • Murat Kahya, Seesaw II, Istanbul, TUR, 2017 | DER GREIF
        Murat Kahya, Seesaw II, Istanbul, TUR, 2017
      • Translation of the Turkish sentence above the photo : He/She/They is constantly looking at the screen.
      • Sara Giuliani, Escape attempts, Regina Coeli prison of Rome, ITA | DER GREIF
        Sara Giuliani, Escape attempts, Regina Coeli prison of Rome, ITA
      • Having had life plans go up in smoke having something inside that still burns
      • Thana Faroq, 11, Sana'a, YEM, 2024 | DER GREIF
        Thana Faroq, 11, Sana'a, YEM, 2024
      • There is a terrible strength to this intuition
      • Marie Le Moigne, Demain Commence - Hier Termine, Bretagne, FRA, 2015 | DER GREIF
        Marie Le Moigne, Demain Commence - Hier Termine, Bretagne, FRA, 2015
      • Demain Commence.
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    Christiane Monarchi

    Christiane Monarchi is a founding co-editor of Hapax Magazine, a biannual print publication commissioning new photographic ideas since 2021, currently working on its sixth issue. She is the founding editor of Photomonitor which has published more than 1,400 online features since 2011 and is now working in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts and bookRoom. Christiane is a curator, lecturer, and artist mentor and serves on the steering committee of Fast Forward, Women in Photography, and as a trustee of the Centre for British Photography.

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    Eva Eicker

    Eva Eicker is a Photography curator living in London, UK. As a photography expert she is focusing on social and cultural issues for a critical engagement with contemporary photography. With a background in Anthropology, her interest lies in interdisciplinary aspects such as collaborative work, sound and materiality in relation to photography. Amongst others, she worked as Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery (London) for many years; The National Portrait Gallery (London) as well as at Studio Tacita Dean; Magnum Photos (London); Hauser & Wirth (London); and The Museum of Modern Art (NYC).