Responding to the systematic rape and murder of thousands of women in brutal acts of ‘ethnic cleansing’ during the Bosnian War, Jenny Holzer produced the powerful Lustmord during 1993 and 1994.
The project is complex and thought-provoking, not least because its texts, images and objects call to observers’ own bodies, insisting that they participate in the work rather than stand outside it. Lustmord thus redefines the conventional relationship between desire and the gaze, which locates the encounter between subject and object as a unidirectional function of lack.
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ARTIST GUIM TIÓ
“The artist offers “pictographic” portraits in some sort of pantheon of “avatars”, those famous virtual replicas from the various social networks in which friendships, preferences, desires and memories are intertwined. These avatars are a reflection of the users’ personal identities, that they spread on the net in an overt and shameless way. Guim Tió observes this “digital territory” while demonstrating some corrosive irony and reveals, at the same time, the fragility and ambiguity of human condition, unique to our time, that is to assert oneself through image instead of content.” - Original text of Massimo Cova
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Unusual long exposure firework photographs by David Johnson.
“The technique I used was a simple refocus during the long exposure. Each shot was about a second long, sometimes two. I’d start out of focus, and when I heard the explosion I would quickly refocus, so the little stems on these deep sea creature lookalikes would grow into a fine point. The shapes are quite bizarre, some of them I was pleasantly surprised with.”
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