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
caption (image above): A photograph from Alphonse Bertillon’s photo album from his exhibition at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Mental Illness and depression, in particular, have been the talk of the month, given that the confinement has sparked new conversations about social interaction, human kindness and wellbeing and, of course, the lack of…
Read MoreRafael is documenting the life and struggle of street artisans in Brazil and mapping contemporary nomadic culture. To know more about his project and support it go here I am only interested in what’s not mine. The law of men. The law of the cannibal. We are tired of all those suspicious Catholic husbands in…
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stills from Sam Taylor-Wood’s “Death Valley”, Destricted, 2006 (…) In a society based on the separation and isolation of atomised individuals who are precariously chained together on the basis of a set of neurotic projections (nation, religion, family, etc.) and the practices and institutions that undergird them, it seems unsurprising that Tweedledee will occasionally, perhaps…
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photo by © Theodore Wan, Bridine Scrub (For General Surgery), 1977 (…) Therefore, when contemporary art or contemporary art theory uses terms of contemporary liberal democracy, a meaningless democracy given that the only right surviving today in fact is the right to dominance (I have the right to assert dominance, power), then, in reality, (art)…
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© Martin Luijendijk, Crematieoven, from the series Edges of the city, 2005 © Martin Luijendijk, Couveuse, from the series Edges of the city, 2005 © Martin Luijendijk, Sexclub, from the series Edges of the city, 2005 “The basic idea is the entire coexistence of the city, the human society. The attention is focused…
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