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June 2020
NOTES ON ARCHIVE 5. UNNAMED SERIES
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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June 2020
NOTES ON ARCHIVE 3 – PICTURE MINING
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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April 2020
IL PARTITO PRESO DEGLI ANIMALI
Jean-Christophe Bailly invites us to join the Animal Party as Francis Ponge invited people to step out of the human rut to take a different look at objects, dedicating a brilliant collection of texts to the Animal Party,. In these essays, Bailly’s journey follows paths that only the vision and the animal existence know how to open us: crossing other ways of inhabiting the world that surrounds us, exploring the inextricable networks of the
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May 2019
I KNOW HOW FURIOUSLY YOUR HEART IS BEATING
Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Gray Room,” Alec Soth’s latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren’t about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Soth’s portraits and images of his subject’s surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to
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