Vincent Ferrané: Iconography XXV Figures of Jeanne Damas
“However, I am interested in how we discorporate and re-corporate an image of somebody based on how they wear themselves to the public and what the conversation around the image of that person is by addressing their image and performance in it as iconic”. How do we disassemble a look, let alone an “iconic” […]
An Open Return Letter For Unpaid Portfolio Review Invitations
This is a response based on an actual request and my return correspondence regarding free labor at a European portfolio review that I have been asked to be involved with this week. Please feel free to tender a copy and paste version of the response to the next fair or festival that asks you for […]
MoMA Press Release: Garry Winogrand (1988)
“Garry Winogrand is, in my view, the central photographer of his generation.” – John Szarkowski (All rights reserved. MoMA @ 1988)
Concrete, Plastic and Future Landscapes: Boris Loder’s Particles
“Loder’s constructions may appear simple, even whimsical, but they subvert conventional ideas of landscape in a really clever way.”
Anonymous Stripper Party
An Open Letter to Felicity Hammond From Art Rotterdam/The New Unseen
To: American Suburb X Artforum.com Theartnewspaper.com Subject: Open letter to Felicity Hammond Amsterdam, 17-02-2020 Dear Felicity, We are Fons Hof and Johan de Bruijn, the owners of the “new” Unseen. We have read your open letter and are very sorry for the way you have been treated, more so as you are […]
Benjamin Pfau: Isthmus, A Nocturnal Biopic
“So, why do you go to Bangkok if you are under 50, able-dicked and not looking to run an anti-biotics course every Monday morning? You float, you drift and you embed yourself in loose associations that prohibit direct and long-term commitment to form, but rather situate the time spent in a separate category that […]
Gareth McConnell: The Dream Meadow
“Though I do not believe Gareth’s aims as overly facilitating the need for politics, I cannot help but feel the naked bodies found in the work, their arms outstretched towards something greater are indicative of an aversion to the concrete matters just outside the door of wherever the Dream Meadow itself had been manufactured”. […]