Gold Custody - Barbara Bloom & Ben Lerner Japan A miniature portrait in misanthropy

A miniature portrait in misanthropy and an oblique account of the trauma that was the twentieth century

Christina Erturk (Warsaw)

and tinplate were the favored media in a constant compositional and expressive investigation which initially embraced the sphere of Futurism (in 1934 she undersigned the Manifesto tecnico dell'aeroplastica futurista) and then that of the MAC

it is so leafy and tragic and direct

Alex Prager

Gold Custody - Barbara Bloom & Ben Lerner Japan A miniature portrait in misanthropyBarbara Bloom and Ben Lerner share a fascination with intricate dramas of framing and reframing: what happens to an image or a phrase when it is re encountered, recontextualized, recombined when a particular frame of reference is established or collapses? How is meaning accrued or eroded through repetition, across pages or generations? How are images or sentences enlisted in or suddenly freed from the construction of our personal and collective