Read More | 2.03.21 | Article by Tom Burr | Art, culture, Magazine | MM18
Tom Burr is here in conversation with himself; for a project due to show in Milan in March, before its perpetual postponement, the artist set to questioning himself, producing an interview in which he plays both parts. As memory work, the piece is reflective of Burr’s interest in temporality and subjectivity. The transcript marks a moment that never happened, irrevocably intertwined with Pasolini’s screenplay for a film that was never made.
Now rendered in print, the piece has become a work in its own right, both preceding and replacing the show. For Burr, Modern Matter has become a curatorial platform: an unofficial catalogue, exhibition space, and site for art production.
Read More | 2.03.21 | Article by Dal Chodha | Art, culture, Magazine | MM18
Read More | 1.03.21 | Article by Dal Chodha | Art, culture, Magazine | MM18
Flowers are helplessly symbolic. Cut fresh stems, slotted into cool water-filled crystal vases, endure as perilous effigies of our existence. Beside hospital beds they give solace; on vacant family dining tables they scatter joy. Passed from one hand to another they commit to kinship; loosely tied to metal railings, they ask for remembrance. In their loveliness is tenderness, in their tenderness brutality.
Read More | 26.02.21 | Article by Philippa Snow & Olu Odukoya | Art, culture, Magazine | MM18