Thomas Demand: The Complete De/con/struction of Our Paper Realities
"It is this sand-blasted speculation or rather en-spectralization, the ghosting and subsequent miasma of capitalism as it exists in the economy of images that we regard as relative at the very...
View ArticleNicolas Polli: Ferox Archives Disputes and Dis-Belief
"According to the authors of the study of the Feroxite Meteorites, the material was collated and complied hesitantly in June of 1944 by a Swiss and German Scientific duo (of accidental meeting and of...
View ArticleEd Panar: In the Vicinity of Natural Rituals
“The photograph, its two-dimensional plane and its insistence to be read almost always at a fraction of scale conflate the notion of environment and atmosphere”. The post Ed Panar: In the Vicinity of...
View ArticleIn The Heat: Interview with Arturo Soto
"First, when everything seems unique, and there is an unbridled desire to know, see and discover. It’s important to take advantage of this initial energy, before routine sets in and the eagerness to...
View ArticleSpace, Furrowed with Abysses: Michael Ashkin’s Horizont
“The modern city engenders various pathologies, among them agoraphobia and claustrophobia – the one an intense anxiety felt in open spaces, the other, a panic brought about by confinement. Horizont...
View ArticleDawoud Bey: The Conversation
"Bey’s subjects don’t pose for the picture—they inhabit it." The post Dawoud Bey: The Conversation appeared first on AMERICAN SUBURB X.
View ArticleThe Last Picture-Photography and Death Interview C/O Berlin
"The other reason is the question of memory - in line with the invention of the medium, mass images of the dead emerged in the second half of the 19th century. A fashion wave that is not only reserved...
View ArticleOne Wall a Web: An Interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
"The spatial arrangement of the American city is itself an ongoing act of violence, it’s one that repeats like a kind of infrastructure, and thus re-iterates and entrenches racial and economic...
View ArticleJem Southam Interview: The Pastoral Moth
"The premise and nature of each work, and its eventual architecture, develop as the work is progressing, and again I am led in this by my relationship with the particular site”. The post Jem Southam...
View ArticleJH Engström – CRASH at Värmlands Museum
JH Engström – CRASH at Värmlands Museum 8.9 2017 – 7.1 2018
View ArticleDeath Mort Tod: A European Book of the Dead
"Europe is...people. Its challenge is the bane of enlightenment that various historiographies lament upon its misshapen mass with its fluid borders, its guilt and its appropriated columns of toppled...
View ArticleJohn Myers: Looking at the Overlooked Interview
"However hard I tried to ‘illustrate’ an aspect of the urban environment, to unmask and present how this sleepy, suburban environment ‘functioned’ and fitted together somehow it always failed".
View ArticleGetting Close to Ren Hang
Ren Hang didn’t have a lot to say about himself. In the fine art environment, where emphasizing one’s own importance (or having representation to do so, while you maintain the air of expensive mystery)...
View ArticleJohn Lehr: The Island Position Interview
"The facades of shops, the techno-utopias of the call centers or mobile phone sales point bleed into boarded-up strip mall windows and the implications of a plastic and temporary commercial culture...
View ArticleLessons from the Art Collection of a Billionaire Businessman (2018)
In this video Barbara and Morton Mandel recount their journey as passionate collectors of 20th and 21st-century art. Throughout their lives, the Mandels have acquired examples by Modern and Post War...
View ArticleThomas Ruff – Meet the Photographer (2018)
Thomas Ruff continually challenges the processes, techniques and concepts of photography, frequently editing and manipulating images made by others in order to re-imagine their possibilities. Victoria...
View ArticleThomas Ruff –“Tripe | Ruff” (2018)
Inspired by some of the earliest photographs of India and Burma (Myanmar), Ruff’s series, ‘Tripe | Ruff’, commissioned by the V&A, reimagines a set of 1850s architectural and topographical images...
View ArticleMartin Parr – ‘Photography is a Form of Therapy’| TateShots (2017)
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate look at aspects of modern life, in particular...
View ArticleSterling Ruby Interview: This Manic Circle
Join us as we visit the internationally praised, multifaceted artist Sterling Ruby in his Los Angeles studio. In this video, you can watch the American artist at work and hear about his approach to...
View ArticleDavid Hockney Interview: I Am a Space Freak
“My sister once said to me she thought space was God. I thought that was rather poetic in a way.” Interview with David Hockney about his endeavour to capture Grand Canyon as a spatial experience in a...
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