The etymology of the word author refers to an act of creation, an act of augmentation, from the Latin verb augere. Author instantiates creation, the expansion of the pre-existing. In 1967 Roland Barthes declared the death of the author in his famous essay to state once more that the crisis is that of the author as a single subjectivity and as a term that condenses prestige, undermined by the de-subjectivation strategies of automatism, fortuity and fra

In the course of browsing an illustrated book of objects—umbrellas, watches, tools, clothes—artist Max Ernst was struck by the items' unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the Victorian-era engravings into striking tableaux and adding brief captions, Ernst invented the collage novel and transformed banal advertising art into revealing dramas rooted in his dreams and secret desires. A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally published in 1930 as Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulu

Scarfès is a photographic project by Giuseppe Andretta shooted from 2014 to 2017 in the city of Fès in Morocco. The images show a specific connotation of teenagers self-injuries in contemporary moroccan youth subculture called "tcharmil". The title "Scarfes" comes from the union of two other words "scar" and "Fès" whose phonetic association refers to the famous film "Scarface" played by Al Pacino, who became an idol of these guys. The project focuses, however, not so much on the tcharmil culture but on the

Text by Peter Fröberg Idling “It could be said that this is the story of two men who were born in the Cambodian countryside in the mid-1920s. Two men who would leave their mark on their homeland. One as the country’s foremost architect and town-and-country planner, the other as one of the blood-soaked 20th century’s most blood-soaked dictators.”––Peter Fröberg Idling On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge march

This "coloring book" combines photos and images from the exhibition and represents not just a simple documentation, but an invitation to colorful and real intervention in the natural and urban space - and in between.