Zachary Formwalt

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Tent. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 27-11-2014, 25-01-2015 ; Belgrado, Museum of Contemporary Art, 06-02-2015, 22-03-2015 ; Zachary Formwalt - A way of of removing an element that interferes with the subject, Gent, KIOSK, 30-11-2013, 26-12-2014. - In three recent video installations Formwalt focuses on the architecture of the new OMA-designed Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange designed at the end of the nineteenth century by the socialist architect, H.P. Berlage. The three installations dig into a fundamental issue surrounding financial trade: whereas financial transactions seem to dictate our economy and thus their effects can be felt everywhere, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote, unavailable for any kind of actual human encounter. The architecture of the stock exchanges serves as a starting point to a profound investigation into the limitations of photography to represent capital and into the interrelationships between financial capitalism and image making