Agathe Kalfas & Mathias Benguigui
AGATHE KALFAS & MATHIAS BENGUIGUI Asphodel Songs Agathe Kalfas websiteInstagram Mathias Benguigui websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info In 2015, Lesbos became the centre of Europe’s largest population movement since World War II. Situated only 12 kilometres from the Turkish coast, the Greek island still bears the traces of the Great Catastrophe of 1922 […]
Arvida Byström
ARVIDA BYSTRÖM Mythic Humanoids websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info In the early 20th century, before photography’s truth value had been stabilised, two young girls conned a whole world of scientists with their Cottingley Fairies photos. The images were believed to be true, probably because people aimed to keep a part of the past […]
Nikita Teryoshin
NIKITA TERYOSHIN Nothing Personal websiteInstagram Selected from PhMuseum Days→ info Nothing Personal shows the back office of war, which is the complete opposite of a battlefield: an oversized playground for adults with wine, finger food, and shiny weapons.Every day on the news we are watching pictures of war and destruction, and the expenditure on […]
The Fly
DAVID CRONENBERG The Fly text by: Matteo Cremonesi With “The Fly” (released in 1986), David Cronenberg makes a remake of a classic in the science fiction horror genre, “The Experiment of Dr. K”, previously brought to the cinema by K. Neumann in 1958.The film partly follows the plot of the original: A brilliant world-renowned […]
Sijia Ma
SIJIA MA A Hundred Stories websiteInstagram “I must study politics and war that my child has sons have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, to give their child a right to study art, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, […]
SCUMB Manifesto // Justine Kurland
JUSTINE KURLAND SCUMB Manifesto websiteInstagram published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Inspired by the iconoclastic feminist SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto by Valerie Solanas, SCUMB Manifesto is a project through which we are introduced to Justine Kurland’s photographic work, a project that is characterized by its ability to produce itself within a […]
The Urgency of life // Tommaso Montenesi Posch
TOMMASO MONTENESI POSCH The Urgency of Life instagram published by: Slivana Editorialetext by: Matteo Cremonesi Oscillating between different postures and narrative procedures, now close to a diaristic relationship now winking at a photographic behavior that looks at fashion photography, The Urgency of Life is a project through which Tommaso Montenesi Posch is committed to […]
The Stutter of History // Thomas Demand
THOMAS DEMAND The Stutter of History website published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Facing the photographic work of Thomas Demand we experience an ambivalence of feelings, the feeling of a proximity of the image to a real scene is challenged precisely by the ‘accuracy of the forms with which this real is realized. Formal […]
Tre Mesi // Greta Valente
GRETA VALENTE Tre Mesi websiteinstagram text by: Ilaria Sponda Abandoned structures, boats resting on solitary beaches, sculptural rocks, palm trees and cactuses desiccating under the sun – the visual experience of leafing through Greta Valente’s “Tre mesi” is a physical and spiritual journey through Southern Italy, between Naples, Caserta, and Salerno. Perceiving the elsewhere […]
Clare Lyons
PHROOM CLARE LYONS websiteinstagram interview by: Ilaria Sponda Ilaria Sponda: Where is your creative process mainly rooted?Clare Lyons: My process is mostly rooted in the hope of achieving healing and catharsis. My practice typically examines deeply private and personal experiences. For example, I have made work in the past about my own struggles […]