Billie: Before Our Limbs Soften
“On a functional level, and trying to remove myself from the subjects involved, what “Billie” does besides pull on your emotions is to punish photography in a small way…”
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Alessandro Calabrese: A Failed Entertainment
“That is to speculate that the authorship of the single complete image may well have been limited to the artist, but its circumferential acclimatization in book form have enabled a second tier retro-authorship of said generated images. They become meta-appropriations in a sense.”
Alejandro Cartagena: An Adolescent Country in Constant Tantrum
“I think of the USA as an adolescent country with a made up history and in a constant tantrum to make itself the most important place in the world. I wanted this work to be anti-documentary, if that is even possible, and to stress that things are simple, complicated, entwined and conflicted at the same time”
Carpani & Verilli: Playfully Hammering Out Memories
“I am sometimes prone to being infuriated by novelty in photography. In particular, when the use of archive or vernacular material is concerned”
Thomas Albdorf: The Uncanny Valley of Yosemite
“Everything is unknown, sifted through bit by byte and re-assembled for the purpose of defining the in insalubrious possibility of chance and enforced meaning- Nothing exists, Everything exists if harvested and re-distributed credibly and with rugged vigor”
David Fathi: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHAT Claudia Seidel
“And beyond Fathi’s unique picture album that circles around Pauli and the so-called “Pauli Effect” the publication captures all the facets that finally determine a notable bookwork”
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. “