You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
“the past never a fixed and dormant landscape but one that is re-seen” (OV)
“Here the tropical vines rocking vertiginously, take on ethereal poses to charm the precipices, with their trembling fingertips they latch onto the ungraspable cosmic furry rising all throughout the drum-filled nights.” (SC)
a liquidity
moving all muscle and bristle
[..]
taking such
pleasure in the watery bites. Why am I not allowed
delight? A stranger writes
Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry.
… holds a possibility of use (OV)
Meet Caryl Ivrisse Crochemar (@creativerenegades), curator of our pop-up exhibition Sparkling Islands, Another Postcard of the Caribbean, which ran at High Line Nine from 11 – 20 May. This exhibition was the first by 1-54 Presents, a new programme of pop-up exhibitions by 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and featured work by:?
April Bey (@aprilbey_), Jean-Ulrick Désert (@jeanulrickdesert), Roland Dorcély, Adler Guerrier (@adlerguerrier), Deborah Jack (@debjack0), Leasho Johnson (@leasho_johnson), Remy Jungerman (@remy.jungerman), Anina Major (@aninamajor), Johanna Mirabel (@johanna.mirabel.art), Zak Ové (@zakove), Nyugen E. Smith (@bundlehouse), Yoan Sorin (@yoan_sorin), and Alberta Whittle (@purebred.mongrel). ?
Video : Karim Hapette
Green is the color of quotidian place; “now total insight […] these shapes and perfect colors, catch[es] […] its inner torments” (SC).
Looking intensely at one image, then doing so again and again, is more or less the premise of the writer and critic Brian Dillon’s latest book, Affinities (2023), a text that endeavours to analyse attraction. […] For Dillon, affinity is an unreasoned impulse; the magnetic draw of an image, the way it imprints on our psyches, the way it holds time still cannot be academically delineated. But the more one surrenders to affinity, the more one can see – and the more one can learn. One can learn how to tease out a narrative, absent of language. Grace Linden, Psyche, 051723.
“Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely.” (VW)