Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted” Hassan-i-Sabbah Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold “…something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it…” (“On Photography” – Susan Sontag) The U.F.O photography is wonderful. From the amateur attempt made with a plate till the perfect picture, retouched thanks to […]
David Penny
As part of the 10-year anniversary of Dovecot’s new life at the old Infirmary Street Baths, Edinburgh, artist David Penny has created an exhibition of photography and video work interpreting the extraordinary craftsmanship of the weavers at Dovecot Tapestry Studio. Penny is interested in the materiality of objects and the aesthetics of technology as well […]
Olive Juice // Molly Matalon & Damien Maloney
Duality omnipresent, objects doubled, relationships essentially exist as their very own Geminis. Often photography is conceived as an action in which the photographer reveals the other, the illusion, the gaze. Showing the viewer something that they’ve never seen before, showing the audience a new myth. Often times we can become lost in the photographer’s role […]
Vandalism// John Divola
John Divola is an American treasure, residing in Riverside, California. Bringing the surreal into reality and vice versa, Divola is a unique product of the American west. Often photographing in abandoned, desolate, or bizarre locations Divola has a knack for bringing the unimaginable into a tangible, comprehendible space. In his monograph “Vandalism” we experience this […]
Yatender
Ao Kim Ngân a.k.a. Yatender is a film photographer whose practice props up a ramshackle bridge of shared spaces in time and gives shape to the yearning for something more. The story she writes is a personal one, unfolding candidly from a desire to escape the narrow worldview of circumstance and reach across great distances to […]
Kevin Lear
A Glass Darkly Kevin Lear’s photographs are an intense poetic meditation on urban spaces in Kent and London, dating from 1971 until the 1990s. Often shot at twilight, the works transform everyday street landscapes into sculptural forms. The photographs are imbued with a foreboding and unease, offering alien scenes of a world made unfamiliar by […]
Nikolas Ventourakis
Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. A quest that unfolds in the crucial years of the digital revolution, when a crucial overlap between producers and viewers seems […]
Thomas Sauvin
Beijing Silvermine Since 2009, the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin has embarked on an unusual adventure: salvaging discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing that were destined to destruction. Undertaking one of the largest and most important archival projects in China, he buys by the kilo, taking away rice bags […]
Daniel Everett
Daniel Everett is an artist and professor working across a range of media including photography, video, sculpture, and installation. He received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Daniel currently teaches at Brigham Young University as an associate professor of New Genres. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe […]
Federico Barbon
Matteo Cremonesi: I’d like you tell me something about your work, what does it mean to make a book? Federico Barbon: Thinking back to the whole history of book over the last 50 years I think that making a book always involves risks and energies that today are clearly different from past years, I’m not just […]