MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
If between humans and animalsexists what John Berger has once called “an abyss of non-comprehension”, animal photography — with all of its high-end gadgets and colonial assumptions — has not always rushed to bridge that abyss.
David Hockney, child of the British pop art movement and a particular strand of postmodernism, has never stuck exclusively to one medium. While his notoriously playful, almost childlike portraits and self-portraits—mostly done in acrylic, with a few exceptions—may be the images that characterize...
There was a 2 year gap after undergrad, which was great because I got to travel and work, make art, but also live, and I started making objects again. I was making small films but I started making sculptures again, and thats what led me into graduate school.
"The template I used in Embittered Heart was especially influenced by two things: my having lived in Mexico and been engrossed for many years with Latin American imagery and literature; and my love of gardening. The intertwining of the wounded human heart and plants thus began."
The critic Roland Barthes once wrote that “photography touches art not through painting but through theater,” reminding us that before Daguerre presented his silver-coated plates to the French Academy of Sciences, he was known as a proprietor of a Diorama theater, a popular Parisian spectacle of lights and painterly backdrops. The dramatic stage is implicit in the camera’s frame.
"One of the things that I enjoyed the most is that this project works as a great ice-breaker to meet new people each time I travel to a city that I haven't been to before."
"By implementing black and white, infrared, and achromatic picture-paintings techniques, de Wilde attempts to see her subjects how they see the world: through the lens of achromatopsia.
"You always have to reinvent yourself. I have been doing this for fifty years. My God, you can never stay the same. You always have to change.
"There is always a background story, the forgotten history of the past, the vague reality of the present and future, the importance of living in the moment."
"The creation of artist collective and record-label Giorno Poetry Systems in 1965 marked a turning point for the poetic form.."
"The main idea of the Blueprint project is that our home is the reflection of ourselves."
"The women, like the photographer herself, are aware of the juxtaposition between their real environment and their photographic environment."
I think originality can grow from imitation. We learn by imitating our parents when we are children but we still manage to become distinct individuals as adults.
In his Metamodernist Manifesto, Luke Turner defined philosophy as a “Pragmatic romanticism unhindered by an ideological anchorage.”
