Xiaopeng Yuan: The Liminality of Capitalist Anxiety
“This set of images playfully break advertising’s conceptual ethos and artifice and instead represent real-world, unorthodox behaviours.”
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Thomas Sauvin: Great Leaps Forward
“…the word ‘image’ embodies a number of distinct phenomena. On an existential level, it articulates the impression we project onto others and ourselves—self image, body image, public image. But in a traditional art historical context, it alludes to the visual representation of someone or something in a work of art”. by Cat Lachowskyj […]
Ren Hang’s New China
任航 摄影师 诗人 1987年出生于中国吉林长春，现居北京。在国内外做过多次个人摄影展，参加国内外各大摄影联展，摄影作品常见于国内外各类杂志和书籍，2010年获得意大利第三届特尔纳当代艺术奖，曾出版个人摄影集《REN HANG》、《ROOM》、《NUDE》、《MY DEPRESSION》、《Republic》。
Bruce in China (2018)
A conversation with awarded Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden about life, China, culture and, obviously, photography. Shot during Magnum & Daken Art workshop in Shenzhen, China. This film was commissioned and produced by Daken Art & Magnum. Script, filmed and edited by Ivan Abreu
Ai Weiwei – Art, Awareness and the Refugee Crisis
Exiled in Europe, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has made the refugee crisis central to his work. We accompanied him behind the scenes of his latest film ‘Human Flow’. Ai Weiwei: Is he only an uncomfortable critic or one of the most brilliant artists of our time? Subject to government surveillance, detention and house arrest […]
Feng Li: White Nights & The Grayness of Skies
“Every snapshot is an unexpected and sometimes inconvenient encounter with fate”
Into the Subject’s World, Katja Stuke’s “Nationalfeiertag (National Holiday)”
These event headlines are embedded in this single image, now symbolic of defiance against the brute force of state power. It is both the beginning and the end – the beginning the event evokes and an end that stops at the image and caption. The news image of global importance is the both the beginning […]
Melinda Gibson & Thomas Sauvin @ Unseen: “Lunar Caustic”
”Thomas sent across a very polite email, stating, ‘I am mostly interested in the surprising way you could digest such a body of material. I contacted you because I think your collages are truly spellbinding…’” By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, September 2015 Melinda Gibson has flown to China to collaborate with Beijing Silvermine mastermind Thomas Sauvin […]
An Interview with Thomas Sauvin: On Smoker’s Ettiquette and the Right to Nitrate
With Silvermine, is your determination to collect this material purely driven by geography? Or do you have a China fetish? Thomas Sauvin occupies a strange place in photography. His output is sincere, his knowledge of classic hiphop is un-fuckwittable, and his publications are highly coveted gems in the photographic book fetish world. That, […]
Ren Hang and the Production of the Hidden Idealized Body in China
To act out of one’s desire that has been purposefully cloaked under ideology is in fact a direct transgression against the state. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 First, let it be said that this oversize production by dienacht of Ren Hang’s work is lush and beautifully crafted. The pages overlap and folds of […]
Ren Hang ‘Human/Nature’ at Capricious 88
The theme is a twine of two strands: the uncanny connection of human bodies and questionable distinction of humanity from nature. By Owen Campbell, ASX, March 2015 The fifth floor gallery space of Capricious 88, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is large and airy, with south-facing windows facilitating bright sunlight even on overcast days. […]
Blood and Iron in the Temple of Menses
“I’ve surely made mistakes in the community, but certainly not in sexuality.” – Otto Muehl By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, January 2015 The Vienna Actionists of 1960’s were interested in the documentation of transgression of the body in art and in society at large. They performed quasi-mystic rituals that were documented in blood and film. […]