WYSOCKA POGO
Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo are Berlin based artist duo working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photo books. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery. Material is sourced from vintage photographs, books and other archives, stripped of its original context and transformed to create new visual narratives. Wysocka and Pogo utilise Risography, a Japanese stencil printing technique from the 1960’s, to express this reinterpretation.
They purposefully push the risograph’s boundaries heightening the elements of chance and unpredictability in the finished pieces.Their canvases become a beautiful and uniquely tangible reflection on the passage of time and context, as well as machine-made replication vs. hand-made interpretation.
