"Off" | Johan Rosenmunthe

Photographer Johan Rosenmunthe creates work that showcases personalities as technologically streamlined. For his series Off, he downloaded images from "friends" on facebook and launched them into analog settings in order to re-write their fragmented identities.

In his work statement, Rosenmunthe elucidates on the literal and metaphorical movement involved in having to come up close to make-out the features of the pixelated form, only for its surrounding context to then become blurry. While this is fascinating, I'm finding the effect of these images to be rather unexplainable, almost sublime.

via iGNANT

Altars by Rachel de Joode

Dutch artist Rachel de Joode creates sculptural-structures she refers to as altars. Each piece is made to reconnect the viewer to important components of human culture. The artist writes:

"I seek to portray the otherworldliness in the most profane aspects of our world. My work depicts people and objects and their performative gestures."

via We Find Wildness

an apology

I have sorely neglected this here blog, no doubt from preparations leading up to the opening. But I am still very serious about blogging, and will be getting back to it. I've been to a string of gallery openings this past month, and will be in and out of New York for more, so they'll be no shortage of no wonders to post about.