Jon Uriarte
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Artists Education Submission About Newsletter Felipe Romero Beltrán, Reduccion JON URIARTE Gexto Photo website interview by: Elena Rebecca Rivolta Elena Rebecca Rivolta: Hello Jon Uriarte. This is your first year curating Getxophoto and we’re thrilled to discover what you’re up to. […]
“An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” // Taryn Simon
PHROOM TARYN SIMON An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar website Publisher: Hatje Cantz text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Too often the American people don’t know who Washington is working for, and when they find out, they don’t like what they hear. We’re not going to be able to change America unless we challenge the […]
Videodrome
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter VIDEODROME David Cronenberg text by: Matteo Cremonesi “First of all, it can be said that eroticism is the approval of life right up to death.” Bataille The famous phrase “Death to Videodrome, glory and life to the new flesh!” […]
“Schwarzenegger is my idol” // Sergey Melnitchenko
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter SERGEY MELNITCHENKO Schwarzenegger is my idol websiteinstagram Publisher: Moksop text by: Matteo Cremonesi “What remains original in the work is what is not verbal: for example its physicality, its voice, its body. The body: here is a land not […]
Pastoral, to die in the country
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter Pastoral, to die in the countryShûji Terayama (Japan, 1974) text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Have you ever looked carefully at the map of Japan?There is a small piece that looks like an ax. Another looks like a human head.I was […]
The error in digital language
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter The error in digital language text by: Matteo Cremonesi In a linguistic universe that cannot exempt itself from passing through technological mediation, glitches and crashes (what therefore results and emerges from systemic errors) constitutes a “sign” that has become […]
“The Wedding” // Boris Mikhailov
PHROOM BORIS MIKHAILOV The Wedding Publisher: Morel Books text by: Matteo Cremonesi The controversial photographic work of Boris Mikhailov documents the terrible daily lives and the ruthless social conditions in which many homeless people (also known as Bomzhes), end up in post-communist Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. Destroyed lives that […]
Gorsad
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter GORSAD Instagram GORSAD is a Trio of contemporary young artists from Kiev. Gorsad is a provocative art trio based in Kiev, Ukraine. Working primarily with candid portraits of eastern European oddities mixed with fetishism, they explore how the first manifestations of […]
Eva Ostrowska
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter EVA OSTROWSKA Love was Sweet and Warm as a Tangerine Sunrise websiteInstagram « Last year I had an accident and had to spend my recovery time into a bed for more than three months. During this time, my ritual routine was […]
“Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection” // Akimitus Naruyama
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter AKIMITUS NARUYAMA Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection Publisher: Scalo text by: Matteo Cremonesi «There is a sort of construction in the vision, from which we are exempt by habit. We guess or foresee, in general, more than we see, and […]