1. Ghost Stories is a meditation on the interconnectedness of everything. An ode to the inevitability of (unspoken) relationships, to the impossibility of simply being without stepping on the toes of other histories. 2. Clavarino’s photographs stretch like an accordion, backwards into the past and then forwards into the present. 3. Ghost Stories orbits four […]
‘When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past.’ Wisława Szymborska wrote this stanza in her poem The Three Oddest Words. When I read it, I feel a kind of vertigo, as it makes lucid that past, present and future are perpetual neighbours. But because we have come to define each […]
When truth is told, so is fiction. A series of events described is both a recounting of facts and an act of imagination. How those events are spoken of; the order in which they are retold; the emphasis on particulars; the intonation of voice; the pauses in between, all are the work of fiction. The […]