Category: exhibitions
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portals #5 (Arles)
1 entrance to Channel Tunnel, Kent 2 Eurostar 3-4 Arles All other photos shot in Arles, September 2014
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reds 2024
1 calgary, 2-6 mexico city feb 2024 1-3 mexico city feb 2024, 4-6 london may 2024 paris may 2024 paris may 2024 1-5 paris may 2024, 6 calgary 1 calgary, 2-4 paris may 2024 paris may 2024 11 street sw, calgary calgary
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tina modotti + me
Photo at lower right is of Tina Modotti, by Edward Weston. In 1865, young Lewis Payne tried to assassinate Secretary of State W. H. Seward. Alexander Gardner photographed him in his cell, where he was waiting to be hanged. The photograph is handsome, as is the boy: that is the studium. But the punctum is:…
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encounters/annie ernaux
Notre vrai moi n’ est pas tout entier en nous. Jean-Jacques Rousseau These photographs were all shot at the exhibition “Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography,” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, February–May 2024, curated by Lou Stoppard. I love both Ernaux’ writing and the kind of street photography represented in the show, and…
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(post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #2
These images are all from the exhibition “Présences arabes – Art moderne et décolonisation. Paris 1908-1988,” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from April to August 2024. La Musée d’Art Moderne propose de redécouvrir la diversité des modernités arabes au 20ème siècle et de renouveler le regard historique sur des scènes artistiques encore peu…
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(post)colonial imaginaries: arabesques #1
Images from exhibition “Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles” (Whitechapel Gallery, London, Feb–May 2024) Originally conceived for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Dreams Have No Titles is an immersive installation comprising film, sculpture, photography and performance, that interweaves the artist’s biography with activist films produced across France, Algeria and Italy in the…
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unexpected encounters #8: phantasmagorias
The world dominated by its phantasmagorias—this, to make use of Baudelaire’s term, is “modernity.” Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments. No image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds…
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unexpected encounters #3—self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
Je est un autre. Arthur Rimbaud, letter to Georges Izambard, 13 May 1871 3.1 peeping tom. Berlin, March 15, 2016 The stills are dense with suspense and danger, and they all look as if they were directed by Hitchcock. The invariant subject is The Girl in Trouble, even if The Girl herself does not always know it. In Barbie-doll…
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unexpected encounters #0 [contents]
A complete transmutation followed by a pure act such as love will necessarily be produced every time that the given facts—the coupling of two realities which apparently cannot be coupled on a plane which apparently is not appropriate to them—render conditions favorable. Max Ernst, quoted in André Breton, “The Surrealist Situation of the Object” CONTENTS…
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redder yet
1-2 Tokyo, September 2011 #3 Calgary #4-6 Mexico City, February 2018 #1-2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 New York City, January 2011 #4 + 6 Johor Bahru, February 2023 #5 Singapore, February 2023 #1 Siem Reap, February 2016 #2-6 Mexico City February 2018 all remaining images Mexico City, February 2018
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