The Importance of Archival Portraits for Growing Families

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different methods, but all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the ignored image, the half-remembered place, the unsteady limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful however insistent meditation on how meaning collects in normal life.

To me, her distinctive language hazy, misshaped, discreetly disturbing reflects the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world filled with imagery that seems to appear and disappear ever-more rapidly. A shadow, a handstand, a large curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he gives them a 2nd life in which they become irreversible.'s minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and production from around the world within a special visual language.