Bleu investigates the parallels between skin and the photograph: both surfaces, both fragile, both filled with secrets and taboos. Marie’s practice merges sculpture, photography and installation. Her work explores the relationship between the body and its representation through processes of objectification, fragmentation, magnification and accumulation. ‘The photograph’ is considered first and foremost an object and is explored through its potential for materiality, touch, and three-dimensionality.Marie was selected for the Foam Talent Call and

What if we allow speculation, messiness and befoggedness to set the conditions for documentary gestures and practices? Contemporary documentary practice has a crucial role to play within art, mainstream media and activism. It constitutes less a genre, and more ‘a critical method’ in its own right. How can we rethink the documentary attitude conceptually, formally and methodologically? Uncertainty has become documentary’s given. What if this unfinished business of the documentary, creates even more pos

Tristan Plot prepares them to work with human beings in theatrical and dance shows or film documentaries and develops with them some “ornithotherapy” sessions with prisoners and people in distress. When he was a child, in the forest behind house, Tristan noticed that, if he remained still for a long time, the animals came out of the vegetation and it was possible to observe them. Even today, this practice of slow approach, respecting the rhy

Anthony Hernandez (b. 1947) grew up in a Los Angeles far removed from the idealized Hollywood image of the city. In the early 1970s, largely unaware of the formal traditions of the medium, he developed his own style of street photography, one uniquely attuned to LA’s desolate allure and sprawling expanses. Since then Hernandez has consistently pushed his practice into uncharted territory. Moving from black and white to color, from 35mm to large-format cameras, and

Recognisably and fearlessly designed by Metahaven and densely illustrated, this uniquely original and experimental publication offers a fresh perspective on Metahaven’s exceptional and versatile practice by offering reflections on how to understand the collective’s work within a broader context, as well as by zooming in on their recent shift to moving image work. It offers as-yet unpublished reflections on their practice by renowned and compelling voices, thinking through the various ways in