Available Boredom
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter AVAILABLE BOREDOM text by: Lisa Andreani, Matteo Binci, Gloria Nossa, Milena Zanetti “The essence of technology is by no means anything technological” (Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, New York & London, Garland Publishing, 1977, p.4.) In this historical moment […]
Yael Bartana
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Artists Education Submission About Newsletter YAEL BARTANA Patriarchy is History websiteInstagram Galleria Raffaella CortesewebsiteInstagram text by: Giangiacomo Cirla The title stems from the large neon work Patriarchy is History (2019), a direct and eloquent statement prompted not only by most recent events […]
To what extent photographing naked people poses issues around Ethics and Objectification in Boris Mikhailov’s Case History?
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter TO WHAT EXTENT PHOTOGRAPHING NAKED PEOPLE POSES ISSUES AROUND ETHICS AND OBJECTIFICATION IN BORIS MIKHAILOV’S CASE HISTORY? Text by: Antonino Barbaro Introduction When the book Case History by Boris Mikhailov first came out, it was met with the rare response […]
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 […]
Picnic at Hanging Rock, a critique of the anthropocentric perspective.
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter Picnic at Hanging Rock, a critique of the anthropocentric perspective. text by: Matteo Cremonesi Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 film by Peter Weir based on the novel of the same name by the Australian writer Joan Lindsay. […]
Fani Zguro
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter FANI ZGURO From the Series Untitled website “What is a ghost?” Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners. (Ulysses, James Joyce) In those far away years before Photoshop, […]
Ana Mendieta
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter ANA MENDIETA Mirage, 1974Source, 1975Birth (Gunpowder Works), 1981 Exhibition:Galleria Raffaella Cortese Originally trained as a painter, Mendieta soon turned to filmmaking and photography, and later drawing and sculpture, in her short yet extremely prolific career. Themes central to the artists’s multifaceted […]
Zhao Qian
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter ZHAO QIAN @ Houston Center for Photography websiteInstagram text by: Bucky Miller I recently took a job at the Houston Center for Photography, where Zhao Qian’s fellowship winning exhibit A Field Guide is on display. It does not matter […]
SOMETHING IS ALWAYS MISSING
In Gloria Pasotti‘s work a sort of lightness persists that always leads her to refrain from defining her own practice in a monolithic and continuous element in favor of a continuous exploration and questioning of the relationship between image, author and staging visual. Her artistic research, strongly linked to the construction of a photographic scene, […]