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
all images © Isaac Pereira. Courtesy of the artist. This conversation took place in July 2014, over the virtual space that unites Macau and Lisboa. The original, portuguese version, of this conversation, can be seen HERE. Sofia: We’re having this conversation mainly because of your exhibition, Tree, now held in Macau. Although I couldn’t be…
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The title references Pierre Bourdieu’s critique of Kant’s famous essay on aesthetics – The Critique of Judgement. Bourdieu’s take on Kant’s distinction between ‘taste’ (available to all animals) and ‘beauty’ (exclusive to the humankind) implies a marxist notion of the separation of classes. For him, Kant’s praise of beauty and of ‘pure taste’ is a…
Read MoreMichel Jaffrennou and Thierry Coduys, Demon Demos: The Phantom Public, 2005. The work tracks and creates schematic representations of the behavior of visitors to a given space, in this case the Making Things Public galleries. “Katti: Bruno Latour recently cocurated his second show at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, or Center for Art…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 