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”
Brad Feuerhelm: Photography Class of 2016?
“you think…”Well Sweetheart if you don’t want to hear this …Why the fuck are you here in the first place? Go forth and make your way towards the golden honey pot of money and museum exhibitions, you terrible fuck”. Don’t let me stop you or waste my time with your bullshit. Seriously”
Bruce Connew: Pascal Invented Horse Porn From the Void
“all theatres must end in tragedy or the glorification of banality to succeed in the minds of their small audiences”
Bernd and Hilla Becher – Water Towers, 1972
Alejandro Cartagena: Cultural Picture Coding and Collapse
“This symbology, this fervent fabric of decline is screened within the book, but it is subtle and perhaps that is why, it is doomed, like human behaviour and meaning, to the sidelines of a genetic and shared understanding of images. “
Richard Kern Interview: Decanting Transgression, Fortnight Institute
“If anything the entire movement (my films at least) was anti-sex or about how sexual desire and relationships fuck up everything.”
Kenta Cobayashi’s Radiant Techno-dissolved Glitchgraphy
“The glitch is worshipped and the dream weave of the matrix spews forth an undeniable feeling of dissolve”
2224 Kolkata: Plums Deep In Corpse Fat
“I mean corpse fat and soap, I remember the nazis doing something like that…is that why the women wash their clothes in it while the naked children, with their distended bellies, watch?”
Takashi Homma: Polis and the God EYE Goodbye
“Takashi Homma is indebted to Robert Frank. This much is clear. He is as sick of goodbyes as are the best of the Swiss and as are the best of photographers”
A Conversation With Salvatore Vitale: Security is Hereditary?
“You’re right in saying that it is an examination of power, because power needs to be examined in order to be structured”
Gerard Petrus Fieret: Interview With Diane Dufour, Le Bal
“The huge and quite exaggerated size of his signatures, the mushrooming of his stamps with the clear mention of the copyright “by G. Fieret” render apparent Fieret’s excessive need for recognition. Those are also signs of some sort of defensive strategy from a legal point of view – Fieret always felt threatened by the idea of being stolen or plagiarized”
Shelter Island: A Conversation With Roe Ethridge
“I’d say there is a duality that is keeping things unresolved. The narrative isn’t faux, it’s mine and not mine”