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.”
Improbable Parables: Considering The Prismatic and the Void in the Work of Inka & Niclas
“The wandering couple coerces themselves towards enlightenment by consulting their unease through a distorted prismatic light, and hence gives their world a credence not found in the symbolic disorder of howling winds”
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.”
Victor Cobo Interview: There is No Darkness Without Light
“That’s because the energy from extreme situations provides drama, and drama is a photographer’s gift”
Photography Class of 2017 – Kittens, Rainbows and Unicorn Supplement
“Finally, a “Eureka Moment”- the image I “took” belongs to Martin Parr, the Godfather of Gaudy. I know this not because I have any of his books or any desire to devote much attention to his work, I know this because I have the Internet”
Interview: Arnau Blanch’s Opium Induced Twilight
“I’ve been trying to transfer some of the states of altered perception resulting from opium use”
JH Engstrom: Confusion is a Kind Mentor
“Honesty is as transient and fluid as it is integral to the material necessity of its host. We gain, we lose, we ignore and we digress”
Robin Cracknell’s Automatic Topographic Family
“Cracknell plays with aversion and identity politics while also employing the device of youth and the embattled ideology of innocence that comes with it.”
Martin Bollati: The Brutal Form of Obsolete Icons
“The stone, which once was hit to produce an image was now being hit again to produce another one. History cannot be destroyed, but it can be misread”
Long views that obscurely make radiant even what frightens us: Robert Adams, The New West
‘linoleum buckles on counter tops, and unseasoned lumber twists walls out of plumb before the first occupants arrive.’
Barbara Kruger – In Her Own Words (2016)
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as “you”, “your”, “I”, “we”, and “they”, addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Kruger currently lives and works in […]
Joseba Eskubi: Biomorphic Abattoir
“The paintings are beautifully grotesque and at one with the human condition. The bubbling and fungal masses are crude stand-ins for our own nature of fucking, feasting and dying”