The 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, begins with Dorothy returning to her aunt and uncle’s Kansas farm after their neighbour hits her dog for chasing her cat. The entire sequence before the tornado miraculously transports the young girl to Oz is sepia coloured, illustrating the farm and its surroundings as one of the bleakest […]
The vocabulary of mental health is not recent by any means, and yet it feels as if only in the past decade has its language started to fall into place. Still a controversial topic in both formal and casual contexts, the open language of short- and long-term feelings and states of mind is fertile ground […]
The cover of Florine Thiebaud’s first book, Breaking Point, announces an idyllic Mediterranean village – the deep blue sea surrounds the colourful little houses on the coast; above them, on top of the hill, lies a fortress with the Greek flag fluttering in the wind. But this image, a mural on a wall, is a […]
As a foreigner in the UK I get asked a lot where home is, how often I go home, whether I miss home. I often ask myself the first question too. With every passing year, home becomes more ambiguous, more distanced in space, in time and splintered within the self. There is a home before […]
It’s April when I start thinking and already mid-April when I start writing about Gregory Eddi Jones’ Promise Land. The book starts with a quote from T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, published one hundred years ago, after both WWI and the Spanish Flu had ravaged the world. From the perspective of today, in […]
Gravity acts equally on all masses – wherever one is on Earth, they are being pulled down towards the core of the world at all times. In one way, we are always falling. But not all falling is the same. Gabby Laurent’s images of falling comprise a spectrum of descent. From tragic to comic, from […]
The latest book from Berlin-based Romanian artist Anton Roland Laub, Last Christmas (of Ceaușescu), reactivates recent history and its slippery truths to point at the biggest question mark of the 1989 Romanian Revolution – who does the Revolution belong to? The premise of the publication is a triangular lack: of solid historical research, of assigned […]
Before delving into Ilias Georgiadis’ journeys throughout the world and within himself, one picks up the stitched case, thin, black and squared like a vinyl record sleeve, with a pale blue title sheet on the front and a section of a contact sheet on the back. Both are partially attached to the textured paper, casually […]