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
Vito Acconci passed away last Friday, the 28th, at 77. Acconci’s performances were partly responsible for my interest in staged photography, which then developed into an interest in durational performance, again inspired by Acconci, Tehching Hsieh and Marina & Ulay’s performances. When I heard the news about Acconci’s death I remembered something he once said about Marina Abramovic’s retrospective…
Read MoreFor a while now it has been quite clear Marina was working towards becoming a brand, she said it herself. It’s unfortunate that she alienates herself from art in such a disengaged way and making such a fool of herself, but it doesn’t take away what she did before. I’m speachless about Marina’s last “messages”…
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This post serves the sole purpose of sharing documentation about my favorite Marina Abramovic’s performance: “The House with the Ocean View”. There are not many photographs available on the web, so here is a a contribution. photo documentation (day 1 – day 4) photographs by Attilio Maranzano photo documentation (day 5 – day 8) photographs…
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still #1 still #2 still #3 still #4 still #5 still #6 Finally!!! st**aming of the documentary here (…)”I went to see the exhibition and its eponymous centerpiece: the artist, seated in a chair in the museum’s atrium, gazing intently, immobile and in silence, at the audience members who came, one by one, to sit…
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© Hans Bellmer O elemento feminino é ao mesmo tempo um elemento museológico e um objecto de desejo, uma distorção das relações humanas, uma falsa perpetuação da vida, um sonho (pesadelo?) em tempo real. O homem tenta recriar a mulher conforme a sua vontade. A tentativa de preencher uma lacuna afectiva, a satisfação do desejo…
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