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.
Experience has taught me which positions I like to take. I go into the space, I take a photograph, and then I go into the lab and look at the print. I work on the image until I feel it is right; then the ‘portrait’ is ready.
I’m always trying to suggest that there is a voice that runs through things. For example, with the Naked Eye, the same book can generate different stories. There are these voices, and I’m looking for them. I like being surprised.
I like surprises, and in The Gymschool especially, they could do things with their bodies that I could never have imagined. You have to know in advance more or less where you're headed; but at the same time, you have to give ideas a chance to grow and leave room for whatever happens in the moment.
I think my work is interesting in the way I use light to push the legibility of an image. The images I have created are like the moon during daybreak.
If you’ve ever had one of those nights where you wake up with a tattooed stomach, pierced lip, and a walk that feels like you just rode a stallion for miles, well you probably did, and you know how I feel right now.
My audience has to understand that The Notion of Family is myself as a subject transitioning from a youth to an adult.
It’s hard growing up in a world where you don’t feel represented, and you don’t see your image anywhere. That’s what I try to do: create images for people who don’t see themselves in the world.
I feel like I’m just starting to play with photography - a real you gotta learn the rules before you can break them kind of deal.
Pussy Riot are our kind of girls: Feminist activists in masks making trouble. What they do is brave – and transgressive.
I was always more attracted to the European Surrealists than the English.In retrospect (because I was not that familiar with her work at the time) I feel more akin to Frida Kahlo than any other female artist.
A look of surprised excitement flashed across his face. It didn’t last long. She brought her knee up with as much force as she could, straight into that bastard’s balls.
See some of our past featured artists at The Armory Show & Volta NY this week!
One day while out in the South Hebron Hills visiting a tribe of Bedouin who live in caves, I came across the landfill site in this work. I returned a number of times to view the location and eventually decided to make work there.
