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Nicholos Floch

The Color of Water - Tagus The Color of Water, columns of water, from the Tagus (C1) to the Atlantic Ocean (C34), Portugal, 2022. 408 color photographs arranged geographically, pigment prints, 30 x 42 cm each, unique piece, produced by MAAT, Lisbon.

Mutlu Çerkez hi um well… (25 November 2021), 2004 acrylic on paper 108 x 82.5 cm

Roland Topor Souvenir, 1975 16 pages

All the words were scratched by the artist, making the book illegible. When asked to read an excerpt from this book Topor spontaneously covered his mouth and continued to read incomprehensibly, muffled by his hands.

Moyra Davey Trust Me, 2011 sixteen chromogenic prints, postage stamps, painter's tape and ink, 45.7 x 30.5 cm each

"..the artist’s process, which involved folding each photograph, taping it closed with green masking tape, and mailing it to a predetermined recipient"

#art #photography #letters #postcards #contemporary photography

https://firstdraft.org.au/news/tactics-of-abstraction-and-embodiment-through-spence-messih

“Glass is vulnerable to weathering, particularly to heat and humidity, the very forces that helped to make it. It is also able to withstand sites of pressure, such as the small body of a bird, pelting rain or a rogue rock and shows no unsteadiness from the force of a persistent gaze” “Glass also contains memory – from the unique impressions made by the breath of the glassblower to the molecules around the site of a score” “liquid memory” “glass is about relation – to itself and to the external pressures of bodies, and its environments – the meeting, or withholding, of weather, an unwanted visitor, the reflection of one’s own face” “finding presence in absence, self-recognition in mis-recognition and opacity in obscurity“ “gestures, relations between forms”

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/42675/strategies-of-desire/

“Desire responds to a perceived void in all its sincerity and attempts to fill this void.“

“Desire engulfs two contradictory poles: While one part of this emotion addresses something ambiguous and evasive, the other part is more focused and knows exactly what the object of desire actually is“ “While desire geared towards the past expresses itself as nostalgia, desire geared towards the future expresses itself as utopia”