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November 2023
I won’t come down
For centuries women have remained at the foot of trees. Women-roots, destined to nurture the fruits of other existences, fathers, husbands, sons, that eternally free male who instead climbs every tree, and from above looks far, grows, conquers. It seemed like an eternal condemnation, the worst because it was blessed by all power, and instead some women rebelled and embraced the trunk as if it were the best part of themselves, put their feet up
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November 2020
Publishing Manifestos
Independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic practice, publishing counterculture, and the zine, DIY, and POD scenes have proliferated over the last two decades. So too have art book fairs, an increasingly important venue—or even medium—for art. Art publishing experienced a similar boom in the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the culture's "linguistic turn." Today, art publishing confronts the internet and the avalanche of language and images that it enables. The printed book offe
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May 2019
A LIT CANDLE LIT THE FOLLOWING AND OTHER COINCIDENCES ON EXISTENCE
"The universe is 13.7 billion years old.
And it was on on clear sky of july when Apollo 11 left the Kennedy Space Center towards the moon. A mundane event through present eyes as landmark for that time, for scientific research and space exploration. I tend to attribute to this date the beginning of a revolution, a new way of seeing not the world, but beyond the world. The magnificent desolation of Buzz Aldrin has the value of t
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February 2019
BEHIND THE GLASS
Behind the Glass takes its title from Alexandra Catiere’s series shot in Minsk and Moscow in 2005-2006. Curated and designed by Chose Commune, this book brings together photographs from this early unpublished series with additional selected images. Included is a new set of photograms; the artist’s latest camera-less experiments composed of light, sensitized paper, pebbles and grass.
For the past 15 years, Alexandra Catiere has illuminated faces, bodies and things that weave a
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