Adam Kaasa Every document in the archive, every object explodes into a multiplicity of texts, other objects, memories and narratives that, for most of the time anyway, are content to be contained within the lacquer of a porcelain bowl, the…
Category: RUIN
apostrophe: Study for Three Reclining Figures
Francisco-Fernando Granados Portraits are signs. In a portrait, the figure pushes to the foreground while the background recedes in order to make its opposite legible. There is a boundary created between positive and negative space. The up-rightness characteristic of a…
Speaking of Time: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Framing Yugoslavia’s Spomenik Post ’89
Yasmin Nurming-Por Since my research trip to the former Yugoslavia in 2012, I have been haunted by the experience of monuments. During my time in the former republics, I had the opportunity to visit two of 25 monuments (spomenik): one…
Constructed Ruin
Ashley McLellan The staircase at the end of the alleyway next to my old apartment building looked as though it was a forgotten ruin from the distant past. Built to reflect classical aesthetics, the stairs were not long but wide…