DIP Talk: Miles Fischler, Dries Segers & Diana Tamane

Speakers:

Miles Fischler

• Miles Fischler (Brussels, 1991), is a Belgian photographer currently living in Antwerp. In her personal work, she is especially intrigued by structures and the way we look at images. The main subject of her work is the interaction between human beings and their surroundings, how people construct and divide the world. Her use of colour and composition lures in the viewer. She uses both her own photography, which is mainly made on colour film, as reappropriated material (such as photo archives and online footage). Her images balance between a poetic and analytical approach and sometimes are reminiscent of paintings because of their play with light, colour palette and texture. She recently also started experimenting with film, recording small observations during walks and travels.

Dries Segers

• Dries Segers studied at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts (Listahaskoli) and graduated as Master photography at Luca School of Arts campus Brussels. Since then his work has been show in several solo and group show in Belgium and abroad like at BOZAR,,Brussels (B), Fotomuseum Antwerp (B), Botanique, Brussels (B), Brakke Grond (NL), Fotoğraf Vakfı, Istanbul (TR), Warte für Kunst, Kassel (D) en Neue Galerie in Augsburg (D).

• His images balance between abstract and lens-based photography. The way of seeing becomes the subject of his work. Each project likes to question the way photography is challenged by its own restrictions.

Diana Tamane

• Born in Riga, Latvia in 1986. Lives and works in Tartu, Estonia, and Ghent, Belgium.Diana Tamane works mainly with photography, video and text, using autobiographical elements such as memory, everyday routines and personal events. Starting with tiny movements and awkward gestures she is following long roads from the East to the West of Europe. Often her family members are the main characters of her work.

• Tamane has graduated from the Tartu Art College (BA) and Sint-Lukas School of Arts Brussels (MA). In 2015–2016 she attended HISK post-academic program in Ghent, Belgium. Recently Tamane was selected for Plat(t)form 2018 by Fotomuseum Winterthur, she won the Riga Photography Biennial Award 2018 and saw her work selected for the Outset Estonia - Estonian Photographic Art Fair Acquisition Fund. In 2016 she won the ‘Friends of the S.M.A.K. Prize’, Ghent, and was selected as Young Belgian Talent by FotoMuseum (FoMu), Antwerp.
• Tamane's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Sensitive Traces, Sint- Lukasgalerie, Brussels, (2017), The Opposing Shore, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (2017), Close to me, National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca (2017), Extension.lv, Triumph Gallery, Moscow (2017), The City: My Studio/The City: My Life, Kathmandu Triennial (2017), The Flower Smuggler, Surplus Space, Wuhan (2017), Message: 147 of 494, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017), Coming People, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2016), Wide angle II, Tartu Art Museum (2016).