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
As Nihilsentimentalgia’s early readers know well, at the core of this platform is an interest for the idea of phototherapy and, consequently, different approaches to the idea of self. Throughout the years, I’ve done my experiments using photography as a personal therapeutic tool and I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t really work for…
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Boris Groys’ text “Politics of Installation” (2009) is a relevant text for several reasons, as is locating installations between the artist and the curator, but mainly because it draws a parallel between installations and sovereignty. Contemporary artistic practices fall in several traps: on one hand they suffer from a narcissistic complex that prevents them from…
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© Aneta Grzeszykowska, Untitled (Portraits), 2005-2006 “Modern artists revolted against the identities imposed on them by others — by society, state, school, parents. They wanted the right of sovereign self-identification. Modern art was the search for the “true self.” Here the question is not whether the true self is real or merely a metaphysical fiction.…
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