Tag: Paris
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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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(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 #13: sun throat cut
The body will continue to demonstrate mortality as the fate of all humans. It is for this reason that any reference to human animality gravely affects those who dream of its antithesis. They take offence not only at any mention of animality in life, but in science, literature, and the arts as well, as this…
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unexpected encounters #2—imaginary, symbolic, real
The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real are an unholy trinity whose members could as easily be called Fraud, Absence and Impossibility. Wikipedia, “The imaginary (psychoanalysis)” 2.1 cool yourself together. London, July 2001 For Lacan, the driving-force behind the creation of the ego as mirror-image was the prior experience of the phantasy of the fragmented…
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window shopping #4 (Paris)
Surrealism has always courted accidents, welcomed the uninvited, flattered disorderly presences. What could be more surreal than an object which virtually produces itself, and with a minimum of effort? An object whose beauty, fantastic disclosures, emotional weight are likely to be further enhanced by any new accidents that might befall it? It is photography that…
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Je t’aime, moi non plus
the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002
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