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Fact is an unstable category, subject to distortion, fragmentation, and incompleteness. These conditions inform the practice of the photographer Soumya Sankar Bose who, since 2017, has been building a body of work around the 1979 massacre of Bengali refugees on the island of Marichjhapi on the eastern coast of India. Situating his project within the… Continue reading Soumya Sankar Bose’s Where the Birds Never Sing

Leandro Katz’s Self Hipnosis takes its title from a sign advertising self-hypnotism that the artist encountered on the Caribbean Island of Curaçao in 1975. Although the proper translation for “self-hypnosis” in the local language of Papiamento—a Portuguese-based creole—is “autohipnosis,” the sign opts instead to use the Anglo-Germanic “self,” suggesting the island’s history as a Dutch… Continue reading Leandro Katz’s Self Hipnosis

In Milada Součková’s epic poem, Mluvící pásmo (roughly translated from Czech as Talking Zone), an unnamed male narrator, who uses language related to printing, details pervasive anxiety over the collapse of European civilization. The poem was first printed in the fall of 1939 in Czechoslovakia, and responds in real time to the onset of the… Continue reading Milada Součková’s Mluvící pásmo

The Living Mountain by Awoiska van der Molen, made in collaboration with composer Thomas Larcher, is a work that hangs in the air, a work whose final purpose has been suspended. The work sees Van der Molen apply her now signature photographic approach to the countryside and mountains of Larcher’s native Tyrol, Austria, as part… Continue reading Awoiska van der Molen’s The Living Mountain