Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Past: 

"35 of the most Hauntingly Beautiful Urban Ruins" "Urban Exploration Tourism" "Amazon.com: Beauty in Decay; A visually stunning book" showcasing the wider appeal of our desperation, of our ruin.

"our desire for a materiality comes at the hands of world we increasingly do not touch. And so art must become a hyperstimulus; art must make us, perverts of novelty, feel something through glass, by sight, because our hands have been removed to a world we touch only through electrified track pads, through eyes, through a world like advertisement."

"We now compete with actual images of dead oiled fish. Art excesses itself, crusts, proofs its real."

Full: Rebecca Brewer, Rochelle Goldberg at Oakville GalleriesGroup Show at Commercial Street