Cecile Perra‘s website can be seen here.
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Quarantine (bookmarks clean up) – Liz Steketee
Liz Steketee’s website here.
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Therapeutic Photography (part I)
Caption (image above): Digital offset reproduction of an instant portrait of my mother and her best friend Lena, painted with crayons; 1 of many tests. (by Sofia Silva, 2018). Starting this series of posts about therapeutic photography and authors working with it, I’d like to make some very brief distinctions between phototherapy, therapeutic photography, art…
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part VII)
Caption (image above): lumen/chemigram (by Sofia Silva). More about Ross Faircloth‘s work here. Ross Faircloth about Dark Grandeur (excerpt): This series of works focuses on the darkroom and printing aspect of photography as a means for pure expression, as the camera and act of photographing takes backstage, or a supporting role. This is accomplished by…
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The complex task of pleasurable image-making
photo caption (above): Sofia Silva, ‘Ego support #2’, from the project ‘The Orchestra’, 2011. Fine Art print, 60x70cm. I started teaching soon after finishing an MFA in Glasgow. Since then, I’ve often remember something one of my tutors told me before I came back to Portugal. He warned me that choosing to teach could be…
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A cross-cultural tale of migration
photo caption (image above): © Alia Ali, BORDERLAND Series, 107 cm x 72 cm. Pigment Print on Cotton Rag 310 gr. 1 AP + 1 EP + 5 Editions, 2017. ALIA ALI “Alia Ali (1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist”. Her work with fabric and thread is present throughout her entire body of work, referencing…
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Cindy Steiler: (re)creating with thread
Bellow Cindy Steiler‘s words: My favorite childhood memories center on spending time with my great-grandmother, Mary Steiler. She taught me to sew, quilt and embroider, all while sharing amazing stories about her life. What she passed to me had been passed to her along a long line of women, inspiring in me a lifelong passion…
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≡ My two passions ≡
© Ana Teresa Barboza, Untitled (?). Images via ArtNau. A friend called my attention to Ana Teresa Barboza‘s work (Lima, Peru, 1981). A good friend, I should say, for she knows how I’m drawn to mixed techniques applied to photography, specially when it involves some sort of sewing. Ana Teresa’s work is anything but simple, though…
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٠ Embroidering photographs is more than a trend ٠
© Stacey Page, Charlotte. © Stacey Page, Paula, 2011. © Stacey Page, Todd, 2011. Embroidered photographs have been a trend for some time now and Nihilsentimentalgia has featured examples of such work, like Maurizio Anzeri, Melissa Zexter, Julie Cockburn or David Catá. It so happens that the technique keeps coming up and their makers are…
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٠ Adrienne Doig and the Cliché ٠
© Adrienne Doig, Feminist Cliché (Dresden Plate), 2012. Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on linen, 99 x 77 cm. excerpts from Lynn Berger‘s SNAPSHOTS, or: Visual Culture’s Clichés, published in Photographies Vol.4, No.2, September 2011, pp.175–190. “We use the word “cliché” advisedly. As it happens, the genealogies of the cliché — an “expression or idea that…
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٠ The serial love & loss of everydayness ٠
* An elderly couple took a photograph each season in front of their house.
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٠ David Catá: a human life is never done ٠
* the title references the following post: ‘A Woman’s work is never done‘ © David Catá, from the series Ni Conmigo ni sin mí (Neither with me nor without me), 2011 © David Catá, from the series Ni Conmigo ni sin mí (Neither with me nor without me), 2011 * * * * * ©…
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٠ ‘ A woman’s work is never done’ ٠
© Eliza Bennett, all photographs from A woman’s work is never done Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, traditionally employed…
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٠ Melissa Zexter’s click and stitch: a marriage made in heaven ٠
© Melissa Zexter, Brooklyn Bus Map, from Maps and Memories. Gelatin Silver Print + thread. © Melissa Zexter, Color Eye Chart, from Maps and Memories. Gelatin Silver Print + thread. © Melissa Zexter, Cardinal, from Embroidered Portraits. Gelatin Silver Print + thread. © Melissa Zexter, Leopard, from Embroidered Portraits. Gelatin Silver Print + thread. ©…
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٠ Maurizio Anzeri and the problem with labelling and expectations ٠
© Maurizio Anzeri, Rebecca, 2009 © Maurizio Anzeri, Rita, 2011 I came across Maurizio’s work through an unusual root – Bric-à-brac -, a section of the electronic journal Sans Soleil, specialized in issues related to Art Brut and self-taught art. Not only because of that but also (1) because embroidery is a very common medium…
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┐ Sonja Bäumel, growing a second skin └
© Sonja Bäumel, Embroidered Tattoo, 2007 The embroidered tattoo is part of the fashion collection “Slow down…”. Latex layers have been revived, reinterpreted and transformed into a skin. A skin embroidered with local tradition. © Sonja Bäumel, Crocheted Membrane, 2008/09 “Our skin has a second layer of skin. A layer full of life, which serves…
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┐ Sara Rahbar └
© Sara Rahbar, Untitled, from the series Love arrived & How red, photography, 2008 © Sara Rahbar, Trapped in Dark Night with Nowhere to Run, I Have Died a Million Times Every Night in this Bed (left) + Kurdistan Flag #5 (right), from the series Flags, mixed media + textiles, 2005-2010 © Sara Rahbar, Solitary…
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┐ Sabrina Gschwandtner └
© Sabrina Gschwandtner, Hula Hoop, 16 mm film, polyamide thread, 2010. Watch & See exhibition, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Sweden, 2009. © Sabrina Gschwandtner, Quilts in Women’s Lives (left) and What is a Dress (right), 16 mm film, polyamide thread, cotton thread, 2009 “My quilts utilize film footage from early Feminist documentaries. I re-work these narratives by…
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┐ Mary Stark – Searching for Celluloid └
Abandoned, discarded, unwanted film is woven into handmade artefacts and photographic prints are created in the darkroom from constructed negatives. Time becomes an integral element, with each print or object measuring a duration of film. This recent work explores the materiality of photography and film in the digital age and creates a dialogue between the…
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┐ Ananda Serné └
© Ananda Serné, Untitled © Ananda Serné, Untitled Sometimes I see images in my head and then I draw them, but only with the intention to make a photo later. I almost never take a photo spontaneously. Ananda’s site here
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 