Author Archives: jolanta

Anna Jackson: Your work The Wedding Video enthralled me. I was absolutely enchanted by its wry take on romance and wedding bliss. The bride and groom disappear under a Harry Potter-esque invisible cloak and, for the entire duration of the wedding ceremony, are only recognized as blurry, invisible matter. I understood it as an obvious […]

Standing on the corner of Jackson and 46th Avenues in Long Island City looking to the west, you see the façade of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center as it blends into the Manhattan skyline. It is a romantic view, hard not to admire and even harder to turn away from. But, if you happen to glance […]

From the lethal pyrotechnics that rocked Baghdad in the early days of the war to the steady diet of video in the wake of suicide bombings and IED attacks, media has brought the Iraq War into American living rooms. “Embedded” reporters, as though part of some macabre reality show, compete to stay alive and show […]

You couldn’t be blamed for responding to Fiona Jack’s work emotionally and then figuring out the meaning later. Like a song that you don’t know all the words to, but sing along anyway, Jack calls her viewers into a chorus before we are even sure what we are singing about. Her recent installation After The […]

Among the best of the works in Stephen Shore’s show at the International Center of Photography is a photo of a McDonald’s hamburger, Perrine, Florida, November 11, 1977. It’s a portal through time that asserts, in one swift psychic jolt, how culture changes and how specific the look of any particular moment is. Look closely […]

Australian artist Patricia Piccinini creates a world captured in sculpture, video, photographs and drawings. Her incredibly realistic-looking silicone sculptures, in particular, have made her one of the most distinctive artists working today. In these works, strange creatures snarl, stare and even play or sleep peacefully with human children. The viewer, brought into their world, may […]

When I was 12 years old, I discovered photography at a workshop in school. My interest in this medium was also encouraged by the discovery of photographic material I found in my attic—material which belonged to my grandfather who died in Africa. My father, without any knowledge in this field, helped me to progress in […]

When looking at painting from Germany, it is wise not only to look through the Leipzig lens, but also to recognize the rich artistic geography of Germany as a whole. Germany has a strong, polycentric network of small arts academies with the most important artists teaching new talent. Berlin has recently been coming up as […]

We are what is coming next. Perhaps it is the corner of the mouth that I find attractive, or a tattoo. Perhaps it's the way that one wiggles their nose when they're talking, or their unaffected air when they sail through a crowd. My attention is aroused by a detail. I start watching someone, picturing […]

I was born in 1973 in Örnsköldsvik, a town located in the northern region of Sweden. Because of my disengagement with school, I was educated as a welder, but began studying photography in 1999 when I attended a Swedish university in Gamleby, a school where I was matriculated for three years. Currently, I live and […]