Zazzaro Otto
PHROOM ZAZZARO OTTOIn a matter of speaking, I’m dead 阴鹅麦特奥夫思笔克赢,爱莫戴德 Instagramwebsite Words by: Matteo Cremonesi In a matter of speaking, I’m dead 阴鹅麦特奥夫思笔克赢,爱莫戴德。 In the summer of 2026, I disappeared in China for a month. Anyone looking for me received no reply. In a matter of speaking, I’m dead. Then I sent a postcard, greetings […]
Nanténé Traoré
PHROOM NANTÉNÉ TRAORÉpays des merveilles 2025–2026 Words by: Victoria Aresheva Instagramwebsite The MEP’s Studio hosts pays des merveilles, the first monographic museum exhibition by French artist and writer Nanténé Traoré. The exhibition brings together a new photography project produced in Brittany in the summer of 2025, and a film shot during a residency in […]
Kata Geibl
PHROOM KATA GEIBLSomething Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue 2026 Instagramwebsite When I was 12 years old, my mother’s frustration with me for not talking that much got to the point of an argument. “Why don’t you speak like any other normal person?” she raised her voice at me. I promptly answered, “Instead […]
Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth // Amin Yousefi
PHROOM AMIN YOUSEFI Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth website Instagram Published by: Luhz Press Text by: Matteo Cremonesi The Past That Continues to Look “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Every historical photograph contains a quantity of future that we can no longer […]
TJ Chen
PHROOM TJ CHENInterfaces Cursors 2022–ongoing Instagramwebsite InterfacesEphemeral digital interfaces engraved into permanent materials. I always view fast-growing digital information with nostalgia. Things that have not yet been perceived have already passed by. Digital interface is a specific kind of information with a unique format that perhaps only belongs to the time we live in. […]
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 […]