Anonymous Objects research and improvisation in the work

and improvisation in the work of Ima-Abasi Okon

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published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

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Her work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints

Anonymous Objects research and improvisation in the workAnonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown suggests that unidentifiable things in photographs point towards larger questions about the limits of knowledge. In a world that seems to give up images of itself more freely every day, theres very little left to the unknown. Inscrutable photographs keep ambiguity alive. They make room for curiosity and wonder by resisting our facile attempts to know the world by naming it.