Less than 24 hours after the Champagne-soaked opening of the London exhibition celebrating 20 years of Dazed & Confused, founder Jefferson Hack—looking unrumpled and bright-eyed—alit in Amsterdam for the launch of another, completely different, exhibition. “I suppose I should start saying no to opportunities, but sometimes they’re too good to pass up,” Hack said.
The editor was in the Netherlands for the opening of photo-centric Foam Gallery’s What’s Next? exhibit, which muses on the future of the photography museum, with a little help from thoroughbred curators from around the world. Hack’s own curatorial contribution includes two darkened rooms of digitized images, some shot by the magazine’s current roster of professional photographers (including cofounder Rankin), some open-sourced from the magazine’s reader network.
The use of digital images was something of a departure for a man more accustomed to putting together glossy pages. “I’m so used to curating and editing in 2-D, so I enjoyed the opportunity to use technology in this way, but I deliberately displayed the images on 1980s-style TV screens, which are completely different to flat, iPad ones that we’re used to touching,” he told Style.com.
His Amsterdam debut at Foam comes exactly five years after the same gallery played host to The Kate Show, a collection of images and installations contemplating the enduring appeal of his ex, Kate Moss. All of this left us wondering whether What’s Next for the space might one day have to do with Lila Grace, the pair’s daughter, now nine years old? “She loved the show and she loved the pieces in the show, but I think she wants to be a chef at the moment,” her father said. “It changes every ten minutes.”
—Mark Smith
Photo: Panos Kosturos
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