Understanding The Poverty Line through Research and Visual Typology.

The Poverty Line uses the universal lens of food to examine the daily choices we would face living at the poverty line. Over a period of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020, the artists traveled 200,000 kilometers to create case studies of 36 countries and territories spanning six continents.

The Poverty Line is a growing conversation that questions our understanding of poverty and inequality. Traversing cultures and economic systems, it confronts the viewer with objective, non-emotional observations of our own circumstance, framed against the fragile balance of social structures, growth, and divide in an entangled, globalized world.

The Lecture will be held digitaly:
Meeting-Link: https://fh-dortmund.webex.com/fh-dortmund-de/j.php?MTID=m363114f38b27f0…
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Gastgeber-Kennnummer: 917753

Stefen Chow is a Malaysian-born, Singapore-raised visual artist. He is a co founder of the artist duo, Chow and Lin.
The crux of Chow and Lin’s practice lies in their methodology of statistical, mathematical and computational techniques to address global issues since 2009. Through a typological, photographic approach, Chow and Lin’s projects are driven by the discursive backgrounds in economics, public policy, media, and these are further augmented by enduring exchanges with specialists from those fields.
Their works have been referenced by the World Bank and showcased at the Triennale di Milano; United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok; Lianzhou Foto; Les Nuits Photographiques, Paris; China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum; Getxo Photo; Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersberg; Myanm/art gallery, Yangon; Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi and the National University of Singapore Museum. They also won the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2019 and exhibited at the Rencontres de la Photographie Arles in 2021.