Carlo Rusca
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter CARLO RUSCA Turistica websiteinstagram The season is over. The Autumn wind shakes the branches of the trees, solitary witnesses in a motionless space. In a house of someone who cannot sleep, a television lightens up the pale white […]
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 […]
Marisol Mendez
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter MARISOL MENDEZ MADRE websiteinstagram MADRE delves into who I am in relation to my female lineage and who I have become in relation to where I was born. The experience is a return to the womb, a journey back to […]
Valerio Ambiveri
PHROOM VALERIO AMBIVERI Cosmogonie Domestiche website Archaic creation myths, astronomical reminiscences, celestial drawings, chemicals for painting, are some of the elements used in the three chapters dedicated to Domestic Cosmogonies. Hypotheses on the origin are imagined through the construction of domestic sets, where small triggers give rise to reactions, presented as in a popular manual […]
Joselito Verschaeve
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter JOSELITO VERSCHAEVE Close To The Sun websiteinstagram Close To The Sun (2019 – 2020) is a prediction of how our stubborn way of living will lead us to disaster. The work is a visual metaphor inspired by the myth of ‘Icarus’ […]
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 […]
“Schwarzenegger is my idol” // Sergey Melnitchenko
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter SERGEY MELNITCHENKO Schwarzenegger is my idol websiteinstagram Publisher: Moksop text by: Matteo Cremonesi “What remains original in the work is what is not verbal: for example its physicality, its voice, its body. The body: here is a land not […]
Santolo Felaco
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter SANTOLO FELACO Spleen websiteInstagram Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,Défilent lentement dans mon âme; l’Espoir,Vaincu, pleure, et l’Angoisse atroce, despotique,Sur mon crâne incliné plante son drapeau noir. (extract from “Spleen”by C. Baudelaire) Where I come from, even the air […]
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 […]