• Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta
  • Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta
  • Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta
  • Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta
  • Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta
  • Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta

Myriam Thyes Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta

Swiss media artist Myriam Thyes, known primarily for her video installations, explores contrasting cities in northern and southern Europe in these two photo series. The once-thriving industrial and trade city of Glasgow is caught up in a structural change, marginalizing social groups that can't keep up. The fortified island of Malta, a Catholic stronghold, bears witness to a warlike past and today accommodates mainly tourists and African refugees. "In a more than fleeting glance at Myriam Thyes's pictorial series, the noble values of a European culture that, as many a contemporary holds, must now be defended against the surge of migrants and asylum seekers from around the world, become discernible as ambivalent." (Michael Staab) Myriam Thyes' work revolves around social and cultural symbols, and how their meanings change over time. Her photo series include a few photo montages that expand the documentary aspect into a representative snap- shot of a moment in history. In this way, Thyes manages to paint a picture of the psychosocial state of European industrial societies.

Hardcover 30 x 24 cm 104 pages 80 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-276-4 2012

Artist:

Myriam Thyes

Editor:

Kunstverein Duisburg

Texts:

Malcolm Dickson, Michael Staab

Exhibitions

Kunstverein Duisburg
21.01. – 04.03.2012

Kunstverein Aurich
18.08. – 15.09.2013

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