The Fabric of Memory // Iva Kontic
PHROOM THE FABRIC OF MEMORYCostume, History and the Cinematic Image in The Colour of Pomegranates10 September 2024Iva Kontic Instagram In The Colour of Pomegranates (1968), Sergei Parajanov’s avant-garde film on the life of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, costume is never mere decoration. I explore some of the key characteristics and functions of costume design […]
Notes on Cinema // Iva Kontic
PHROOM NOTES ON CINEMAMedium, Politics, Experience8 November 2025Iva Kontic Instagram Three short reflections on what cinema is and does. Rethinking Cinema as Medium: A Deleuzian Approach In his theorisation of cinema as a medium, Gilles Deleuze deals with cinema at the level of image—as it appears to us—rather than analysing the cinematic medium as a […]
Down by the Hudson // Caleb Stein
PHROOM CALEB STEIN Down by the Hudson website Instagram Published by: Palo Gallery Press Text by: Matteo Cremonesi Down by the Hudson [2013-2025] is published by Palo Gallery Press, with text contributions by Amitava Kumar, Anita N. Bateman, Matt Carey-Williams, and an interview with Daniel Wolff. A solo exhibition of Down by the Hudson opens […]
Alice Jankovic
PHROOM ALICE JANKOVICGreen Paradox Instagramwebsite The Green Paradox project was born during the Swit artist residency in Gothenburg in September 2025 and developed around the figure of Scheele Green, an 18th-century pigment of extraordinary brilliance but intrinsically toxic. Discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who studied and worked at the ancient pharmacy Apoteket Enhörningen […]
Rosie Clements
PHROOM ROSIE CLEMENTS Instagramwebsite In her new body of work, Rosie turns the camera away from other people and toward objects, most of them consumable, and most of them hers: a vibrator, high heels, a Zoloft prescription with her legal name legible on the bottle, her husband’s cigarettes, a thong, her wedding ring, the […]
Michael Northrup
PHROOM MICHAEL NORTHRUP Instagramwebsite I love irony… not exclusively, but I have a special appreciation for it. And it underlies a lot of my work. I must have been especially influenced by my mother who would laugh at news stories like, “Santa loses fingers while stepping off helicopter to wave at kids”. During the […]
Yunping Li
YUNPING LI huí jiā website Instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info 回 (huí) translates as “circle,” “time,” “to go back,” “to turn around,” and/or “to respond,” and 家 (jiā) as “home” and/or “family.” Together, they mean homecoming, and this return represents an autobiographical journey through my identity-search processes. This is an ongoing project (2018-) that […]
Lisa Barnard
LISA BARNARD The Canary and the Hammer websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info Photographed across four years and four continents, The Canary and The Hammer details our reverence for gold and its role in humanity’s ruthless pursuit of progress. Through a mix of image, text and archival material, the project provides insight into the troubled […]
Yuxing Chen
YUXING CHEN The Oriental Scene websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The Oriental Scene investigates the concept of Chinoiserie architecture in the UK in the context of de-colonialism. The project uses a replica of the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in Kew Gardens as the main object of investigation, which includes objects, drawings and documents to […]
Karolina Wojtas
KAROLINA WOJTAS Abzgram websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info Resetting the school system is one of the unfinished tasks of our time and perhaps one of the most complicated. Karolina Wojtas’s Abzgram project (a nonsense word invented by the artist, which, when the letters are rearranged, becomes bazgram, meaning to doodle or to draw aimlessly in Polish) takes as its starting point […]