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Work by Esther Hovers: print of a gridded photograph of an office tower with a cloud-sky billboard, mounted on burlap and leaning against a white wall.
Work by Esther Hovers: sepia photograph of a young man in profile wearing a light jacket, printed on a manila envelope on a gray background.
Work by Esther Hovers: photograph of pedestrians crossing a gray concrete plaza beside an overpass, with a few people walking and one running.
Work by Esther Hovers: gallery wall with several photographs of a pedestrian plaza and buildings, some cut out and layered, above a light wood floor.
Work by Esther Hovers: open book with a blank left page and a right page showing a photograph of a city street and cream-colored buildings seen from above.
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In her artistic practice, Esther Hovers (b. Amsterdam, 1991) investigates how power, politics and control are exercised through urban planning and the use of public space. She was trained as a photographer but creates installations in which photographs, drawings, text and film play an equal part.

Esther Hovers has exhibited at GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague; Lianzhou Photo Festival in China; and the National Gallery in Prague, et al. Her work has been published in The New York Times; The Washington Post; M – Le Magazine du Monde and Wired, among other publications.

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