Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I Love My Body Project
August 2010
Significant Surfaces:
Selections from the ICP Class of 2010
Curated by Marina Berio
"Images are significant surfaces. …This space and time peculiar to the image is none other than the world of magic, a world in which everything is repeated and in which everything participates in a significant context. [Images] are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings' lives finally become a function of the images they create -- human beings cease to decode the images and instead project them, still encoded, into the world 'out there,' which meanwhile itself becomes like an image - a context of scenes, of states of things."
- Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
All images © Patricia Burmicky
Patricia Burmicky (Venezuela/Slovenia) uses scanning as an immediate, spontaneous, and flexible way to flatten time and experience into digital collages incorporating glimpses of a happy upbringing with occasional details of a more immediate present. Using both the storage containers and contents of her family’s photographic archive as raw material, she creates a visual framework for the contemplation of geographical and temporal distance, family resemblances, and life changes.
Familiar Subjects and Objects
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
introspection.
collage of life.
made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget.
Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others
in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our
lives, at every border we cross."
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero