N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
caption (above): © Babette Mangolte’s portrait of Stuart Sherman, from the Spectacle Performance Stuart’s Thirteenth Spectacle (time), 1980, can be seen here “Stuart Sherman, a member of the important generation of American avant-garde performance artists who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, developed his own unique style across various media, the…
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still #1 still #2 still #3 still #4 still #5 still #6 Finally!!! st**aming of the documentary here (…)”I went to see the exhibition and its eponymous centerpiece: the artist, seated in a chair in the museum’s atrium, gazing intently, immobile and in silence, at the audience members who came, one by one, to sit…
Read More© Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Pot Shot, 2005 © Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Crack, 2005
Read More© Christian Thompson, Untitled #2, from the series Australian Graffiti, 2008 © Christian Thompson, Untitled #7, from the series Australian Graffiti, 2008 To see more of Christian’s work click here
Read More© Susanne Junker, The Perfect Woman Is A Lie, from the series Woman, 2006 © Susanne Junker, The Perfect Woman Is No Lie #1, from the series Woman, 2006 © Susanne Junker, The Perfect Woman Is No Lie #3, from the series Woman, 2006 Photographiée par les plus importants photographes de mode elle fera les…
Read More© Maurits Giesen & Ilse Leenders, Untitled #2, from the series Mimicry, 2003 © Maurits Giesen & Ilse Leenders, Untitled #3, from the series Mimicry, 2003 To see more of GiesenLeenders’ work click here
Read More© Ilse Leenders, Untitled #1, from the series Absorbent Absurdness © Ilse Leenders, Untitled #3, from the series Absorbent Absurdness To see more of Ilse’s work click here
Read More© Tobias & Joseph Feltus, Two Gentlemen, 2.11.2008 © Tobias & Joseph Feltus, Two Gentlemen, 2.4.2008 © Tobias & Joseph Feltus, Imaginary Film Still (6.15-4.18), 2006 To see more of the Feltus’ work click here
Read More© Léa Crespi, Untitled, from the series Lieux, 2008 © Léa Crespi, Untitled, from the series Lieux, 2008 © Léa Crespi, Untitled, from the series Lieux, 2008 “L’espace est toujours marqué par le temps. Un temps qui l’a dégradé ou, pour le moins, transformé. Mais cet espace, auquel nous n’aurions pas dû avoir accès, s’impose…
Read More© Vlatka Horvat, Ladder, from the series One-on-One, 2006 © Vlatka Horvat, Goal, from the series One-on-One, 2006 “In my work in general, I’m interested in presence—a person in relation to space and objects in it—how to inhabit space, how to negotiate ‘being there.’ In different ways I often depict encounters between a person and…
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© Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Untitled, from the series The Day after Valentine, China, 2006 © Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Untitled, from the series The Day after Valentine, China, 2006 “A Chinese legend tells us the story of seven girls travelling up and forth from heaven to earth on Valentines Day on the head of an…
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© Naia del Castillo, The Magpie, from the series Offerings & Posessions, 2005 © Naia del Castillo, Archery, from the series About Seduction, 2002 © Naia del Castillo, Untitled, from the series About Seduction, 2003 “The evolution of her work is focused on the relation of woman to her physical and psychological environment. Concepts such…
Read More© Cabello / Carceller, Power Exercises #6, from the series Power Exercises, 2005 © Cabello / Carceller, Power Exercises #1, from the series Power Exercises, 2005 “In societies openly hostile towards anything they cannot pigeonhole as being “correct”, the construction of a real or mental place where one can live with an acceptable level of…
Read More© Zhang Huan, Shanghai Family Tree, 2001, Shanghai, China “Family Tree broadens this vein of exploration to describe the domestic scene as a site of initiation into ideology. The photographic series comprises nine sequential images made at regular interval from dawn until dusk on one day. Again, they all feature the face of Zhang Huan,…
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© Risk Hazekamp, Under Influence/Catherine Opie, from the series Under Influence, 2007 © Risk Hazekamp, Superman, from the series Straight from Berlin, 2007 “This tension between the biological and the social -or even aesthetic- is echoed in other new works such as “Superman”. The eponymous logo stencilled onto a female chest mainlines its point…
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© Atta Kim, The Museum Project 019, from the series Field, 1997 © Atta Kim, The Museum Project 011, from the series Field, 1997 “In The Museum Project, made between 1995 and 2002, Atta Kim inverts the public space of the museum and its system of display, placing the public, oftentimes naked, within the…
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© Melanie Bonajo, Waiting for something beautiful to happen, 2002 © Melanie Bonajo, Are all cliches true o3, 2007 “My ideas are jingles in my head, they come to me. To be able to make a song i have to give stucture to the melodies, like i have to put the thoughts and idea’s…
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© Lien Botha, Inside the House the Mother did not Build, from the series White Stick for the Artic, 2008 © Lien Botha, Border Crossing, from the series White Stick for the Artic, 2008 “In the series, White stick for the Arctic, the female body — which one assumes is her own — is…
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© Cosimo Terlizzi, Fratelli Fava, in campo, 2006 © Cosimo Terlizzi, Valentina al Muro, 2001 To see more of Cosimo’s work click here
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© Sarah Sudhoff, Clean 2, from the series Repository © Sarah Sudhoff, Fallopian Tube, from the series Repository © Sarah Sudhoff, Exploratory Surgery, from the series Repository “I examine the body within a medical context by exploring through photography, video and performance four main themes: pathological waste; containment of the body and its parts; fragmentation…
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