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. […]
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 […]