Liz Steketee’s website here.
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part X)
Caption (image above): ‘One Love, One Heart #5’, linocut printing on fabric with embroidery over digitized photographs (by Sofia Silva). More about Jennifer West‘s work here. Rita Gonzalez, author of Jennifer West: Across Time and Through Media (excerpts): West came out of DIY media scenes in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s, where e robust…
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Ruth Van Beek and the need to wonder
caption: © Ruth van Beek, The Situation Room (Two figures), 2018. When I regard van Beek‘s collages I immediately know they were made by a woman. There’s a feminine sensibility at play, an heritage of affective labour that is put to work. This idea of a visual heritage is not a reference to a nostalgic…
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≡ The Hyères School of Photography ≡
My love for the Hyères Festival is known. I’ve written about it and have featured a great deal of the authors shortlisted each year. The judging panel has been responsible for issuing a statement about what they want to see in contemporary photography and it has been bold and exciting, for Hyères always awards an…
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≡ the Photographer & the Archive ≡
I 445 Portraits of a man. More about the work HERE. Katherine Griffiths, Photobooth Project, since 1973. More about the work HERE. II Arianna Arcara & Luca Sanese, Found photos in Detroit 2009-2010. Thomas Sauvin, Beijing Silvermine. “For the past three years, collector Thomas Sauvin (French, b.1983) has visited a Beijing recycling center each month…
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٠ Christopher Marques: working-through the postmemory trauma ٠
all photographs © Christopher Marques, from the project O Álbum/The Album, 2013 Christopher’s work revolves around the quest for identity. It’s a postmodern symptom. The industrialization and the instant access to difference places, languages, faces and times, tends to confuse people. As we grow up, it’s inevitable to go through a phase where we find…
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٠ Duarte Amaral Netto: It’s all real, you just need to give up on your anguish (III of III) ٠
Part I of essay here and part II here © Duarte Amaral Netto, Z (France, April 1940), 2012 65×50 cm Framed, Inkjet on Fine Art, Ed. 2 + 1 AP Storytelling isn’t far from the discursive play, on the contrary. Martha Langford would call it an oral-photographic method of telling stories, in the sense that…
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٠If you think you can ignore this, you should think twice ٠
There’s really just one judgement that needs to be made right away: I really have no respect for hierarchical structures, whether they are manifested in the form of a relationship between a father and a son or between a leader and his/her disciples. I am aware that this lack of respect means nothing, but still,…
Read More٠ Anne Geene’s natural topography ٠
© Anne Geene, from the series Ornithology © Anne Geene, from the series Ornithology “Geene is not only a keen observer; she is also a patient scholar, arranging the world around her. For instance, in her book, Parcel no. 235. Encyclopedia of an Allotment, 2009 – 2010, she thoroughly observed the 245 square meters of…
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٠ Susan Hiller & the transformative potential of investigation ٠
caption (above): Susan Hiller, Sisters of Menon, 1972 -79. 4 L-shaped panels of automatic writing, blue pencil on A4 paper with typed labels Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown Artists, 1972-76. Installation view, Tate Britain, London. «In fact, Hiller herself has commented that what her archive includes are moments missed, fleeting encounters with a movement…
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┐ Eiffel Chong └
© Eiffel Chong, Untitled, from the series Royal Malaysia Police “I came across an abandoned police station and found identity photographs of the police personnel being scattered around. Most of them still look good, except for a layer of dust on top of the photographs. However, there were some that have been destroyed by the…
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┐ Vies possibles et imaginaires └
© Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh & Rozenn Quéré, from the project Vies possibles et imaginaires “This is the story of four strong and feisty women, exiled to the four corners of the globe; four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who have travelled through the history of the twentieth century. It is a story somewhere between documentary and fiction, biography and…
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┐ Sunil Shah └
© Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories “This project is both a subjective journey to recollect the past and an interrogation of documentary photography in its use to reassemble fragments…
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┐ Burkhard von Harder └
© Burkhard von Harder, untitled, from the project Cold war in a trash bag © Burkhard von Harder, untitled, from the project Cold war in a trash bag Cold War in a Trash Bag is based on recently found anonymous Cold War photographic footage from the Ukraine. In the summer of 2010 thousands of abandoned…
Read More┐ Jananne Al-Ani └
The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People @ Sharjah Art Foundation, 2010
Read More┐ Vincent Cordebard └
© Vincent Cordebard, Untitled, from Etudes pour Les attentats à la pudeur © Vincent Cordebard, Untitled, from Etudes pour Les attentats à la pudeur © Vincent Cordebard, Untitled, from Etudes pour Les attentats à la pudeur It’s one of those rare, and thus special occasions, when I find a body of work I completely connect…
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┐ Gunnel Wåhlstrand └
© Gunnel Wåhlstrand, © Gunnel Wåhlstrand, White Peacocks, 2007/2009 109 x 160 cm, ink-wash on paper “For eight years, Wåhlstrand has worked exclusively with a kind of re-development of private photographs, using black ink and water, a precise and time-consuming technique that she masters to perfection. The earlier body of motives consisted of her father’s…
Read More┐ Family Archive └
© Family Archive, Portugal, May Day, 1975 © Family Archive, Portugal, May 1979 If there’s still some kind of universal language (and it’s not like I believe art is it) maybe we can recover it in the years to come. I speak as an european but I believe others would agree that the situation in…
Read More┐ Duncan Caratacus └
© Duncan Caratacus, Construction I, 2009 … material collection, a very dense and very important archive that seems to be the result of an in-depth research, mainly UK focused. To see the archive and download either follow the curator ship’s link or view under research in Duncan’s website. via The Curator Ship
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║ Erik Niedling ║
© Erik Niedling, Untitled #09, from the series Status, 2005 © Erik Niedling, Untitled #05, from the series Status, 2005 “Time of change. Germany, right in the middle. Everything seems new. And what a historic district! Only in one place things remain unaffected – as is generally known, a central location does not impair…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 