Serious Games – Harun Farocki

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   Serious Games – Harun Farocki The training and military use of virtual reality text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Man behaves as if he were the modeler and master of language, while in effect language remains the master of Man.” Martin Heidegger Among the new […]

Tito Mouraz

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   TITO MOURAZ Mergulho   websiteInstagram   The genre of landscape, the attraction to territories which question geographical limits, like coastlines, volcanic zones, underground places, forests and mountains, remote and inhospitable locations, (apparently) on the edge of civilisation, which discourage humans from inhabiting or even […]

Natali Agryzkova

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   NATALI AGRYZKOVA Debut   Instagram   The project is dedicated to my beloved son. We never know what is beyond our minds. What are the boundaries of understanding reality? Or maybe it is the fiction of our imagination? As Garry Kasparov once said “chess […]

Fordlândia 9 // JM Ramírez-Suassi

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PHROOM JM RAMÍREZ-SUASSI Fordlandia 9   websiteInstagram publisher: Now Photobookstext by: Ilaria Sponda “Fordlândia 9” is JM Ramírez – Suassi’s first photographic book based on a true story although studded by metaphorical and fictional characteristics. Indeed, Fordlândia is real, as many could acknowledge, and it is now a district in the city of Aveiro, in […]

Gregory Eddi Jones

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   GRAGORY EDDI JONES Promise Land   websiteInstagram   Promise Land, a visual poetic epic by American artist Gregory Eddi Jones, usurps photographic convention to confront what the artist considers a spiritual poverty in common cultural pictures. The book uses T.S. Eliot’s Modernist masterpiece, The […]

Hotels of Pyongyang

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   JAMES SCULLIN and NICOLE REED Hotels of Pyongyang website Instagram Hotels of Pyongyang is a photography project documenting the hotels of North Korea’s capital and one of the world’s most mysterious cities. Frozen in time, the architecture is typically soviet and brutalist whereas […]

House of Card // Thomas Demand

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PHROOM THOMAS DEMAND House of Card   publisher: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi Among the many elements that characterize and define Thomas Demand’s incredible work it is certainly possible to indicate a particular attention to architecture.Its representation and simulation, for this author, is as much the subject of an important observation as of a reworking and […]

How to Destroy Everything // Marco Marzocchi

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   MARCO MARZOCCHI How to Destroy Everything website Instagram publisher: Studio Faganel text by: Antonino Barbaro Since the Sumerian have invented writing, the process of recording information with text is also a process of forgetting. By writing down what has to be remembered and […]

Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards 2021

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PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   KRASZNA-KRAUSZ PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AWARDS 2021 Maria Kapajeva – Dream is Wonderful,Yet Unclear Sunil Gupta – Sunil Gupta: From Here To Eternity   websiteInstagram   The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the winners of the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Image Book Awards. The winning titles […]

Xenia Petrovska

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PHROOM   HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter   XENIA PETROVSKA At the origins website Instagram What hides in the mysterious depth of early memories might reappear before one’s eyes in a dream. Even when the eyes are shut, our sight may be surprisingly broadly open to flashlights of childhood memories. This […]

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