Made in Glasgow (Nihilsentimentalgia’s Early Years)

Ever since I left Glasgow, I”ve tried to keep up, at a distance, with what artists are doing there and by this time of the year, with the Degree Show happening at GSA, there’s always something worth seeing. The last degree show I saw in Glasgow I remember being very impressed with a particular work…

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┐ Nuno Direitinho └

© Nuno Direitinho, Untitled, from the series Backbone © Nuno Direitinho, Untitled, from the series Backbone © Nuno Direitinho, Untitled, from the series Backbone “The work aims to set up a dialogue between truth and deception in representation through the context of photography. I look for the juxtaposition between images and their contextual settings, aiming…

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┐ Raquel Mendes └

© Raquel Mendes, Untitled, 2006 © Raquel Mendes, Still Life I, 2007 How often do we speak of nakedness as if it were a kind of truth, the naked truth? “Why do those who abandon clothes to pursue their leisure and recreation call themselves naturists? Are nakedness, nature and truth inseparable? Stripping naked, Georges Bataille…

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┐ Peter Finnemore └

© Peter Finnemore, Miffin in the wallpaper, from the series Dark Light (Gwendraeth House), 2010 © Peter Finnemore, Night Veil, from the series Dark Light (Gwendraeth House), 2010 “Houses are commodities, homes are souls. Began in 2003, this substantive, distinct and current chapter of the Gwendraeth House project comes under the title of Dark Light.…

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║ Benjamin Orion Rush ║

© Benjamin Orion rush, Kelvin, from the series Field Notes: Statements & Sketches © Benjamin Orion rush, Kelvingrove Hall, from the series Field Notes: Statements & Sketches “New England-born artist Benjamin Rush presents selections from two new ongoing bodies of work in “Field Notes: Statements & Sketches”. Central to the exhibition are images created in…

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║ Nadja Bournonville ║

© Nadja Bournonville, Untitled #3, from the series Amor Omnia Vincit © Nadja Bournonville, Untitled #20, from the series Amor Omnia Vincit © Nadja Bournonville, Untitled #19, from the series Amor Omnia Vincit © Nadja Bournonville, Untitled #15, from the series Amor Omnia Vincit “The study of personality presents many beautiful ambiguities as it opens…

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