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.”
Philip Best “Alien Existence”: Interview With Infinity Land Press
“Safe art is useless to a publisher such as ILP, and just like the work of other ILP artists that goes along with our personal taste – Dennis Cooper and Michael Salerno – this stuff is loaded”
Ivars Gravlejs: Necessary Book of Wrongs
“The savior of technological disgrace is error and possibly humor.”
Olivier Pin-Fat: An Inhospitable Sea Bed of Forgetfulness
“the dormant colossus of implicated spectral doctrines, and of theologies mistaken for technologies and of an aural sensationalism we were once accustomed to questioning has been lost, like so many transatlantic cables to the sea bed of time and forgetfulness”
Rosana Simonassi: The Plastic Disposition Interview
“I am a creature of consumerism. And I consume this kind of image myself; I would not be able to work with them if I wasn´t”
Emmanuel Van der Auwera: Shortly After the Catastrophe
“Blue is the color of the unreal, of the memory, of the open mind, of the royal, the precious and the rare. Blue is the color of the absolute, the higher, the divine, of cold and of clarity. It is the color of Yves Klein, Derek Jarman, Picasso and Gerard David.”
Los Angeles Plays Itself: Anthony Hernandez at SFMOMA
“No, Anthony Hernandez’ sober look at his hometown reminds us that Los Angeles is not the most photographed city in the world, but rather, one of the most culturally, economically and racially divided places in America.” It often said that Los Angeles is the most photographed city on earth. It’s not true. It is also […]
Settings of a Life: Mark Ruwedel’s Message from the Exterior
‘While Ruwedel’s concise framing draws attention to the resemblance between one house and the next, it also compels us to reflect on the singular defeats that they portray, each one a small chip out of the American dream.’