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
The first group of images featured below is part of a project entitled What’s love got to do with it. Here’s Paula Riff‘s statement about that project: I believe in love but it comes and goes. Like the falling of leaves, love often falls gently to the ground; at least that’s my experience. Marbling paper…
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© 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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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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© Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women © Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women © Patty Carroll, Untitled, from the series Anonymous Women “Anonymous Women” is a series of “Un-portraits” as Carroll calls them, of women draped – entirely covered – in various fabrics, with minimum props. Lush fabrics, an unlimited…
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