Hawaii Point // Gabriele Macchi + Lucia Magnifico
PHROOM GABRIELE MACCHI + LUCIA MAGNIFICO Hawaii Point Hawaii Point is a project born in the Jungle of Calais in 2016. The Jungles was a huge refugee camp in France, in Calais, the closest city to England, from which is separated by the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point of the English Channel.Since the late […]
“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 […]
Alessio Pellicoro
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter ALESSIO PELLICORO Place of Microworlds websiteinstagram A project that aims to examine the so-called microworlds born and developed at the edges of Taranto. The current socio-economic and, above all, environmental situation of this city appears very difficult. I […]
Karol Palka
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter KAROL PALKA Edifice websiteinstagram Edifice is a visual journey back to a time most people would like to forget. Pałka documents buildings that have survived the Communist regime, which years ago rolled over Central and Eastern Europe. The […]
Yiannis Trifonopoulos
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter YIANNIS TRIFONOPOULOS What Lies Beneath websiteinstagram Mental processes are, for the most part, unconscious. The conscious is only the tip of an iceberg, a small island of consciousness in the vast ocean of the unconscious. – Sigmunt Freud This series […]
Shelli Weiler
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter SHELLI WEILER ENJOY house websiteinstagram ENJOY house (2018-2019) documents the rise and proliferation of made-for-Instagram selfie factories throughout New York and Los Angeles. The made-for-Instagram selfie factory hybridizes museums, amusement parks, and shopping outlets into large-scale photo opportunities that provide […]
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!” […]
Michele Vittori
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Artists Education Submission About Newsletter MICHELE VITTORI Telepath instagram At the beginning of the 60s the first civilian telecommunications space station in Italy was inaugurated in the Fucino plain, in Abruzzo, thanks to which the first satellite television transmissions of the […]
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 […]
“Sightseeing” // Mikiya Takimoto
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter MIKIYA TAKIMOTO Sightseeing websiteInstagram text by: Antonino Barbaro Sightseeing is considered the lifework of Japanese artist Mikiya Takimoto, for which he travelled across all seven continents focusing on the main touristic attractions, people’s behaviour and their interaction with them. […]