Author: avantika

Coarse Edges

Gili Haimovich La-La-La – Lullaby By now we were supposed to be tucked into being parents, owning our own house. Instead, our homeless auras linger on the wet streets, the only blankie we drag through the day and its tears.…

Darkness is a Trusted Friend

Siouxzi L. Mernagh The forest’s darkness had become a trusted friend. A worn-in coat resting its sun-warmed hands on the shoulders, then wrapping the entire body in an unhurried could-be-the-last embrace. It had not always been this way. The first…

Bombenkrater

Henning Rogge All images by and courtesy of the artist. #1 (Stolpe-Süd), 2008, C-type print. 24 x 29.1 inches. Philosopher Rebecca Comay has succinctly characterized melancholia as ‘the unappeasable attachment to an ungrievable loss’[1]. For those of us in the…

Of Becoming

Mary Grisey All images by and courtesy the artist. All photos: Thomas Blanchard. How do we understand, connect with and react to traces of the metaphysical? My work is about becoming, a process that encompasses both doing and undoing; energy…

Consilience

Julia Davis All images by and courtesy the artist. Consilience (1 of 5), 2013, Digital print on hahnemuhle paper. 21.7 x 21.7 inches. My work is site-specific and is born from an engagement with place. I use a wide range…

Remembrance

Sabina Zeba Haque My work broadly explores the collisions between art, religion, politics and technology, and my current series addresses the relationship between visibility and invisibility, surveillance, proto-surveillance and the experience of time. Remembrance is a stop-motion, animated installation and video performance…

To the City

Gordon Stillman All images by and courtesy the artist. These images were taken in Istanbul in the Spring of 2013. untitled, 2013, Digital photograph. untitled, 2013, Digital photograph. untitled, 2013, Digital photograph. Dig into the earth and you will find…

Hydrogen

Lydia Rosenberg All images by and courtesy the artist. Imprecision after A.G. (detail), 2013, Paper pulp, plaster, graphite, steel. 20 x 4 x 47 inches. All at once, the essay, the biography, the peripheral slippages, the coincidence, the remembering and…