Description
Magdalena Wysocka [b.1987, Poland] and Claudio Pogo [b.1978, Germany] are a Berlin based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photobooks. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery.
Born in West Germany in the late 1960s, FF Magazine (Freies Forum für Erziehungsfragen) was a peculiar blend of pseudo-educational periodical and underground fetish zine. Across its 500+ small-format issues, it gathered a devoted cult following and quietly shaped a niche visual language around discipline, authority, and transgression; material that slipped between social history and subcultural print culture.
In their hands, these once-niche artefacts are stripped of their original moralising intent and reborn as tactile, uncanny fragments: teasers for a forthcoming book and a continuation of the duo’s practice of collecting and reframing found imagery. Through their innovative, process-driven use of the Risograph, Wysocka/Pogo transform this obscure archive into vivid, one-of-a-kind works that reveal how images migrate and mutate across time.
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