Geraldo de Barros: What Remains is a Gift
“It is not as a blackout from his own memory but to revitalise the missing parts, to allow himself and the viewer to fall into the image, to find oneself in that space.”
Author Archive: Sunil Shah
Chance Encounters: Interview with Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
“There nothing more boring than, lets say, a picture of a chair and everybody looking at it thinks, well, thats a chair.”
Bare Life, Bare Tech: Richard Mosse’s Incoming
“Agamben’s ‘bare life’ is visualized through the refugees and migrants, desperate lives in search of a better future and for us, a potential vision of a dystopia where the extreme polarity between those of us inside and those outside is distinctly highlighted.”
Sean Vegezzi: Curiosity, Retail Spaces & Terror
“Since I was a child, I’ve had a fantasy of hiding in a retail space just before it closes, and coming out at night to merely walk around, re-arrange some things, and maybe sit or lay on some furniture, nothing harmful whatsoever. Snow Cab felt like a fulfilment of that childhood fantasy, within a 6 floor, or 60,000 square foot retail space.”
Goodbye America: An Interview with Brad Feuerhelm
“I did recognise the irreplaceable object and destroyed it and my embattled state of mind with America continues.”
Allan Sekula, Against the Grain: An Interview with David Campany
“The idea of art and politics co-existing is no more or less deeply problematic than the idea of them being separate. But nobody said it was going to be a picnic.”
Interview with Kazuyoshi Usui: Projecting Showa
“These poor cities are nevertheless radiating vivid colours, as if bolstering up daily lives with significant visual appeal. I see their desperation to live, to the point of feeling pains. I find it enormously beautiful.”
Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick: Towards the Light
“Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary, in order to access invisible states of consciousness.”
David Brandon Geeting: Everything is Nature
“He plays with the disruption in the aesthetic surfaces of our daily life and this allows him (and us) to experience a reality which might be bypassed.”