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December 2023

Marine Models (Notes on Representation Vol. 12)

Side by side with scientists at the Institute de la Mer de Villefranche, and the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging of Nice, Irene Kopelman examined two small marine animals: Botryllus schlosseri and Nematostella vectensis. One is colonial, the other is solitary, yet they both have the ability to regenerate their entire body - also defined as 'non embryonic development'. For the artist, drawing is a way of thinking and processing what we see through material and
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June 2020

STATEMENT AND COUNTER-STATEMENT: NOTES ON EXPERIMENTAL JETSET NEW ED. WITH AUTOMATICALLY ARRANGED ALPHABETS ZINE

The first publication on the work of Dutch power trio Experimental Jetset features almost two decades of graphic design praxis. Rather than a monolithic monograph, it is a very loose, personal archive, with essays by Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, and Ian Svenonius, plus two photographic chapters with a selection of work by the studio, covering both printed matter and the documentation of site-specific pieces and installations. To conclude is a glossary-like anthology of tex
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September 2021

IN SEARCH OF APPROPRIATE IMAGES

"This work began around March 2020. I felt the need to take advantage of the suspended time we all had available, trying to learn something from it." Mattia Balsamini moves within the walls of his home and its surroundings, looking for some sort of meaning in the objects, atmospheres and thoughts that are familiar to him. From the combination of these images with some of the photographer's archival photographs - which needed to be preserved and protected - In Search o
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June 2019

BORN FREE AND EQUAL

When donating his WWII photographs of interned Japanese-Americans to the Library of Congress in 1965, Ansel Adams wrote, โ€œI think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document and I trust it can be put to good use.โ€ Responding to Adams' prompt, Joseph Maida has reconstructed Adams' catalogย Born Free and Equal,ย which accompanied Adams' 1944 MoMA exhibition curated by Nancy Newhall. In this new book, Maida incorporates Adams' vintage negatives and prints while obscuring specific faces, names, ethnicities,
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July 2020

REAL REVIEW 9 – END TIMES

New omens appear on a daily basis: uncontrollable fires and floods, melting ice, rising seas, mass extinction, incurable pandemics, and escalating violence of thought and deed. How can Real Review add something positive to this context, at the very climax of our global anxiety? Time destroys all worlds, and good riddance! The past is a foreign country, its horrors and delights recast by the temperaments of our present day. End Times is about a
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July 2020

REAL REVIEW 5 – SYSTEMIC DOUBT

We live in extremely uncertain times. Our faith in the future is increasingly tested. Far from being a hopeful, utopian domain, the future now seems doubtful. But what does it mean to doubt today? Societal levels of anxiety are rising. Insecurity is now a generalised condition. Concern that civilisation itself is on the brink of some cataclysmic change is ubiquitous. And yet, doubting doubt โ€“ through the scientific method, imperial evidence and systemic thought
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