"Physical Blur 01"

book pages on archival cardboard, aluminum

[...] Regarding the latter, we would like to refer to the two most recent series "Physical Blur" and "In Place Of". In these series, the idea of the photographic image as a means of establishing identity is taken up and undermined once again. Whereas in "In Place Of" hands replace the face, the artist takes another step towards abstraction in "Physical Blur": here he has combined different views of head hair. Bodily things can only be associated latently.
The dissected, manipulated, disharmonious body - modern art, from Picasso to Bacon, is full of images that go to that effect. With regard to Hosa's photomontages, parallels to surrealism seem to be obvious for the time being: The body in photography was no longer seen by the representatives of this movement as a place to authenticate identity, but as a system of interchangeable variables that could be recombined again and again. Or as Hans Bellmer described it in 1934: through collage/montage, the body becomes an anagram, a chain of signs that can always be reshaped or transformed.
(Manisha Jothady)