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Searching for Mu (2017, ongoing)
The idea of Mu goes beyond having to choose. In translation its meaning comes close to ‘does not have’. Searching for Mu — taking shape in photographs, film clips, sound and folded paper — is tantamount to a quest. I have journeyed nearly as far away from home as possible, nevertheless, a journey outward equally means an exploration of our inner selves. A journey inward searching for acceptance that life comes to an end, yet at the same time knowing that life is circular, starting over time and again.
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EDUCATION (selection)
2020 Moments of Being with Tjeu van den Berk, Utrecht (NL)
2018-2019 Le Masterklass with Klavdij Sluban, Paris (FR)
2013-2017 Fotoacademie, Amsterdam (cum laude) (NL)
2016 Magnum Tokyo Workshop with Antoine d’Agata (JP)
2016 LFI Hamburg Worskhop with Jacob Aue Sobol (DE)
EXHIBITIONS SOLO
2020 Paris Photo New York (AIPAD), New York (US)
2019 Moments of Wonder — Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 Ephémère — BILDHALLE, Zurich (CH)
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2020 Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund (NO)
2020 Photo Basel (CH)
2020 Photo London (UK)
2019 Paris Photo 2019 (FR)
2019 Seaside at Bildhalle, Zurich (CH)
2019 Nude Now, Museum Hilversum (NL)
2019 Photo Basel (CH)
2019 Photo London (UK)
2019 Haute Photographie, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 This Art, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Encontros da Imagem / Discovery Awards 2018, Braga (PT)
2018 Festival Internacional de Fotografia Paraty em Foco (BR)
2018 Athens Photo Festival 2018, Benaki Museum (GR)
2018 Haute Photographie, Fotografiska, Stockholm (SE)
2018 Haute Photographie, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 New Dutch Photo Talent 2018 (GUP), Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Window Of Wonder at Tipi Bookshop, Brussels (BE)
2017 Photography and the Artist Book: First Edition, Atlanta (US)
2017 Robert Capa Center, Budapest (HU)
2017 Back to Paradise, DeelenArt, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Belfast Photo Festival (Artist Residence Winner) (UK)
2017 REVEAL — Graduation Exhibition Fotoacademie, Loods 6, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
2016 Het Oog, Amsterdam (NL)
NOMINATIONS & PRIZES (selection)
2019 Jury Top Selection, GESTE Paris (FR)
2018 Finalist Discovery Awards, Encontros da Imagem (PT)
2017 Window Of Wonder, Tipi Bookshop (BE)
2017 New Dutch Talent (NL)
2017 Hariban Juror’s Choice Award (nominated by RongRong & Inri) (JP)
2017 Artist Residence Winner Belfast Photo Festival (UK)
RESIDENCIES
2017 Docking Station / Belfast Photo Festival (UK)
ARTIST BOOKS
2019 Continuum — 224 visible / 88 hidden pages offset, selfcover 305 x 215 mm, 300 copies
2017 Searching for Mu — 106 pages offset, 200 x 260 mm, 200 copies
2016 Suave — zine, selfcover 120 x 180 mm, 10 copies
BOOKS
2019 Ephémère — 800 copies
2019 Senses — 32 pages offset, hardcover 155 x 212 mm, 200 copies
COLLECTIONS
Foam First Editions (NL)
International Center of Photography, New York City (US)
Van Lanschot Art collection (NL)
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2018 Encontros da Imagem (PT)
2018 Haute Photographie (NL)
2017 Benrido HARIBAN AWARD (JP)
2017 REVEAL — Fotoacademie graduation catalogue (NL)
PUBLICATIONS & INTERVIEWS (selection)
2019 Het Parool (NL)
2019 Éphémère interview by Alex Blanco for GUP (NL)
2018 New Dawn Paper (NL)
2018 GUP New Photography Talent 2018 / editorial front cover (NL)
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Paul Cupido
1972, Terschelling, the Netherlands
Synopsis
The photographic work of Paul Cupido (b. 1972, the Netherlands) revolves around the principle of mu: a philosophical concept that could be translated as ‘does not have’, but is equally open to countless interpretations. Mu can be considered a void, albeit one that holds potential.
Cupido’s ongoing photographic and cinematic experiment ‘Searching for Mu’ is at once a personal and universal odyssey of our fleeting existence in relation to the profound emotional experiences of love, time, and death. Instead of presuming to be documents, his photographs point to transcendent reflections of the soul and of the intermingling of the microscopic and macroscopic.
Artist Statement
I aim to engage with the world with wide-open senses. My work is about the magic moments of life as well as its inconveniences. I want to take pictures, while forgetting about the process of photography, until I’m saturated with an existential sense of life. Every step I take begins with the notion of ‘mono no aware’: the transience of everything, the gentle melancholy of things, being sensitive to ephemera.
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