drthsmth phtgrph: press update I, 11.08
press update I, 11.08
suite à l'exposition de copenhaguen, dont le vernissage a eu lieu le 7 novembre, quelques clins d'oeils dans la presse danoise :
- Politiken
un portrait et un article dans le supplément culture du Politiken, le principal quotidien danois, le vendredi 14 novembre :
"I have always been interested in issues of gender and identity, and before I started taking pictures, I read philosophy. I am concerned about the French philosophers from the 1970s, as Michel Foucault, and especially of the American sociologist Judith Butler and her theories". The brief says that sex is a design that you can have a woman's body, but be a man or a man's body and be a woman. "When I take a portrait, I try to focus on this identity issue, and this is how my pictures can somehow be illustrations of these theories". Indeed, in these pictures, it is hard to see a difference between men and women. We are looking for a beard stubble, or the outline of a breast, but the gender solve faces and bare shoulders leaving only confusion. Most photographs were taken in the morning or evening hours and have the same disede light as the paintings from the Renaissance. Between portraits hang natural images, photographs of industrial landscapes and sculptures. (extrait traduit)
-Politiken, bis
interview de lars schwander, commissaire de l'exposition et fondateur de la galerie, le vendredi 5 décembre :
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- Lorry TV
un reportage TV diffusé au journal national le jeudi 13 novembre :
http://www.lorry.dk/module
- Patalab
un commentaire et un portrait video sur un blog pataphysique :
"Modernity for Baudelaire is not simply a form of relationship to the present; it is also a mode of relationship that has to be established with oneself. The deliberate attitude of modernity is tied to an indispensable asceticism. To be modern is not to accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; it is to take oneself as object of a complex and difficult elaboration: what Baudelaire, in the vocabulary of his day, calls dandyism..."
Pondering -obliquely- once again, on the subject of enlightenment and post-post-post modernity, Sam Renseiw recently scrutinised the delicate, etheric and yet sharp photographic work(s) of Dorothee Smith.
http://patalab02.blogspot.