“The Park” // Kohei Yoshiyuki
PHROOM KOHEI YOSHIYUKI The Park Publisher: Radius Book text by: Matteo Cremonesi “Inevitably linked with the moment of climax, there is a minor rupture suggestive of death; and conversely the idea of death may play a part in setting sensuality in motion.” Georges Bataille During the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki spent many evenings alongside the night-watchers […]
Vincent Ferrane
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter VINCENT FERRANÉ IconographyXXV figures of Jeanne Damas websiteInstagram publisher: Libraryman In the expression “aesthetic canon” which structures the standard of beauty, the term “canon” refers to the idea of “rules”. These rules, however, inscribed nowhere, enact in a changing way the […]
“Oyster” // Marco Marzocchi
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter MARCO MARZOCCHI Oyster websiteInstagram Publisher: VOID “This work represents my experience in recovering and understanding my parents, their life and their relationship with me. I never knew them well because they split when I was 6 years old, and […]
Federico Vespignani
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter FEDERICO VESPIGNANI La Distancia websiteInstagram “If we do not find her at the end of the day she will be lost forever, I’m sorry for her mum.” Says Israel Ticas, the only forensic anthropologist in El Salvador. He is digging into […]
Bingxuan Li
Never, Never Land 2018 10′:37” China – I always think: “What are the real things under the surface of life?” “And now? What would you like to give your life for? ” But I never imagined finding such a growing vitality in the ruins… This work was shot in SiChuan (southern China), where my grandmother […]
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter ELIZABETH GABRIELLE LEE We’ve got the sun under our skin websiteInstagram We’ve got the sun under our skin is a series of photographs and texts illustrating the effects that colonial literature has on modern identity and the construction of the Other. […]
Maria Kokunova
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter MARIA KOKUNOVA Pyromaniac website Instagram Who is it we see when we see ourselves? G. Heivoll «Before I Burn» The year of 2012 – a wave of fires swept through Ulyanovka, a small village in Leningrad oblast, Russia. The peak […]
Tomoya Imamura
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter TOMOYA IMAMURA Petőfi‘s Corpse websiteInstagram The series attempts to describe a Hungarian present whose post-socialist reality nourishes a new form of nationalism. A people who have been opressed for centuries, whose culture and education has centred around the history of said […]
“The Complete Papers” // Thomas Demand
PHROOM THOMAS DEMAND The Complete Papers Publisher: MACK text by: PHROOM In the constant attempt to refer to the world a form and a gaze capable of producing orientation, photography has occupied a central role since its birth.The peculiarity that most of all has led to meticulous research on the photographic medium is its possibility […]
Marta Blue
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Videos Texts TV Artists About Submission Newsletter MARTA BLUE Creatures websiteInstagram Right now I’m literally obsessed with cinematography. Especially from dark side and esoteric themes, that I have realized in the past even, but in a more soft and sensual way.The “creatures” series is almost the anticipation of […]