Jone Elissa Scherf Ordre des livres

These six young British artists take pictures not for the purpose of description and explanation--but to ask questions. Sarah Jones' images are awash in psychological dynamics, while Sophie Rickett's night pictures toy with the secrets of the dark. Hannah Starkey tells narratives from the window of a betting office, and Bridget Smith reveals the machinery of desires that is Las Vegas. Tom Hunter quotes Vermeer, and David Shrigley muses humorously about the absurdities of everyday life. All of the photographs were taken in 1999 and belong to the collection of the BMW Financial Services Group Great Britain.

For AutoWork, two teams of curators in the United States and Germany invited internationally renowned artists to work with the BMW group's corporate identity--in the widest sense of the its employees, products, customers, work processes and image, using both photography and film. The artists were granted absolute artistic freedom and complete autonomy. Included among the project's participants in Germany are Heike Baranowsky, Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Demand, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Candida H fer, Boris Michailov, Johannes Muggenthaler, Ursula Rogg, and Alexander Timtschenko. Included among the project's participants in the US are Sharon Lockhart, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Wolfgang Tillmans, Beat Streuli, Todd Eberle, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Paul Searight, and Gillian Wearing.