Broomberg & Chanarin The Late Estate
“Something about our goodbye will always scratch like an infected nipple under a peasant’s burlap shirt. How else to carry these potatoes?” I will freely admit that I am questioning to myself whether you are worth more to me dead or alive. Of course, this is mostly due to the uncomfortable feelings of loss […]
J.M. Donat: A Self Portrait of the XXth Century
” I think of these efforts often as “Collecting as Practice” and yet most collectors see it simply as a byproduct of their obsession over that of an artistic pursuit” I have been studying collectors of vernacular photography whose drives and holdings pose an interesting possibility for some time. Collectors are an […]
Thomas Kuijpers Hoarder Order American Accumulations
“The images do not look like images from the present. This suggests the potential for these objects to be lodged in a strange time-warp of consumer nostalgia. In some cases, the images appear as though they are from Dutch products thus complicating their geo-specificity and asking larger questions of tribute and nostalgia in equal measure” […]
Rebecca Norris Webb Night Calls
In memory of a young woman that I never knew. This reflection is dedicated to Carol Jenkins-Davis I find myself combatively trying to embed myself in the images, memories and families of others. My initial hesitancy in this pursuit comes from acknowledging the failure of such an enterprise. It comes from a point […]
Narelle Autio Place in Between
” In levitating the body, it gives the psychological state of the subject’s mind and its place in the world unto slippage-a format defined by its inability to be calculated. Remove gravity, remove fixity. Employ risk” The way we navigate our heft through space is built on its being pinioned to the ground […]
Tomaso Clavarino & Patrizio Anastasi Ballad of Woods and Wounds
“When we drift, we drift in short bursts tethered to the imagined shores of our domestic chains” When we drift, we drift in short bursts tethered to the imagined shores of our domestic chains. The waves reach knee-deep before the tide allows us frolic or adventure and ever-so-slowly, there is a pull, a resounding […]
Stephen Gill’s Sublime Decay Please Notify the Sun
“Our human power of observations rests between these worlds and it cannot acknowledge either of them fully by sight. We must remain content with our dull labor and horizons and accept that without the invention of superior optics, we are blind to these worlds” There is a world that exists in an unobservable form […]
Jörg Colberg Vaterland As Then, Now
“It has learned that outward and visceral signs of its existence only lead to its questioning of intent early on; its oft-espoused will thus deposed to the memory of collective trauma…” Ideology is not always easy to see. We read it through the symbolic order of insignia and perhaps we are able to cull […]