The Value of Archival Portraits for Growing Families

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various ways, but all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unsteady limit in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet however insistent meditation on how implying collects in ordinary life.

To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, discreetly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with imagery that appears to appear and disappear ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides them a second life in which they become irreversible.'s minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they connect several histories of product experimentation and production from around the world within a distinct visual language.