Vân-Nhi Nguyễn
PHROOM VÂN-NHI NGUYỄN As You Grow Older websiteinstagram Flipping through the pages of a family photo album is much of a revelation to one. Alluring to look at the past and the period of time a person has lived through, though much to be discussed, this past, especially for Vietnamese people, is something so […]
Geyujing Shen
PHROOM GEYUJING SHEN Whether Every Tree’s Birthday Fall In the Spring websiteinstagram Geyujing Shen was born in a small city in Zhejiang, China, where the subtropical climate has brought evergreen tree species everywhere, bringing economic benefits and maintaining the local ecology, but people are mostly oblivious to their presence—just as women are experiencing in […]
Vasilis Ntaopoulos
PHROOM VASILIS NTAOPOULOS The fertile void websiteinstagram In Gestalt therapy, the term “fertile void” describes the point zero: an intermediate point of balance and homeostasis, full of possibilities. A condition between something that has just finished, and something that hasn’t emerged yet. A state of “creative indifference” located right between two poles. Using the […]
Cinzia Laliscia
PHROOM CINZIA LALISCIA Finalmente posso andare website instagram Finalmente posso andare (eng. Finally I can go) is a visual diary and stream of consciousness that recounts my coexistence with the death of my grandmother and my aunt. It all happened during Italy’s first lockdown due to Covid19, in 2020. The virus had nothing to do […]
Honeysuckle // Nicole Ratos Enerson
NICOLE RATOS ENERSON Honeysucklewebsiteinstagram published by: Datz Presstext by PHROOM “I was an anxious and insecure child. The world around me was filled with things that I struggled to understand. When I became a mother to a son, I realized that I still needed to find a way to process my young feelings. I started […]
Anastasia Davis
PHROOM ANASTASIA DAVIS Sunless websiteinstagram Sunless is a stream-of-consciousness sequence of photographs that I display as diptychs or in book form, created in the initial months of the pandemic, and made into a zine in 2021. I photographed portions of my computer screen as it displayed my own old photographs, as well as photographs […]
Face to Face: Portraits of Artists // Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie
TACITA DEAN, BRIGITTE LACOMBE & CATHERINE OPIE Face to Face: Portraits of Artists edited by: Helen Molesworth published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Face to Face is an extraordinary collection of portraits, bearing witness to the work of three of the most interesting and significant female authors of our time: Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine […]
Kristina Rozhkova
PHROOM KRISTINA ROZHKOVA Bodyland instagram I have found myself in a place where everyone seeks to merge with a common ideal to become one… for those who frequent this place, the body is not a source of life force or movement, but takes on a symbolic aspect. Here, the body is both capital, and status […]
Atlas of Emotions // Jari Silomäki
JARI SILOMÄKI Atlas of Emotions websiteinstagram published by: Hatje Cantztext by: Matteo Cremonesi With Atlas of Emotions, Finnish artist Jari Silomäki delves with sensitivity and invective into the tortuous recesses of the lives of those who, behind the shadow of pseudonyms, share their thoughts on online discussion forums. Carefully and tirelessly, Silomäki has immersed […]
Fleur Jakobs
PHROOM FLEUR JAKOBS Weltschmerz websiteinstagram Weltschmerz, world pain. It expresses the deep sadness and painful melancholy that people can experience by contemplating the imperfect world. Through the realization that physical reality will never be able to satisfy the desires of the mind. During the Romantic era, many artists and writers created works that were inspired […]