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Around The Horn
3 June 2021
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Federico Clavarino, portraits of addiction, Tobi Shinobi and Menja Stevenson.
- Stephanie Wade explores The Ephemerality of Life with photographer Federico Clavarino and sculptor Tami Izko. Clavarino "depicts poetic details of ordinary sights" while Izko "mimic the sinuous shapes of succulents and the trickling consistency of honey, in a manner that is both delicate and fluid."
- Three photographers document America's Addiction Nightmare from opiods to crack. James Nachtwey, Mark Trent and Jeffrey Stockbridge contributed the moving portraits.
- Grace Ebert features a few of Tobi Shinobi's 80 shots from Equilibrium, a new edition in Trope’s Emerging Photographer Series. "Shinobi transforms familiar structural elements like transit lines and buildings into strange scenarios: a stairwell appears like an M.C. Escher woodcut, sand dunes riddled with tracks obscure a roadway and a seemingly endless array of plant-filled tubes dangle from the ceiling in hypnotizing rows," she writes.
- We accidentally came across Menja Stevenson's Bustour 2008-2015 and just had to mention it. Here's a machine translation from the German:
With her performance "Bus Tour S," which was carried out in the Stuttgart bus network in 2008, Menja Stevenson impressively proves that humor and social criticism do not have to be mutually exclusive. Her hair is parted in a disciplined manner, with a slightly bored expression, now and then looking dreamily out of the window, her hands in her lap or on the back of the seat in front of her, the artist has inconspicuously drawn into the stream of lemmings, average citizens on their way to work or shopping and to the employment office, ranked. Only her business suit is noticeably inconspicuous, because it is -- like her handbag -- made of the same velvety colored fabric covered with geometric Op Art elements as all the seats on the bus. An elderly lady is irritated, almost amused, but the majority of the passengers do not seem to register Menja Stevenson's performance. Everyday ritual wins. However, anyone who has noticed the artistic intervention or watches your video today will be made aware of a detail of their everyday environment that has never struck them before: the artistic quality of the Stuttgart bus armchairs. Incidentally, the viewer may become aware of his own -- conscious or unconscious -- camouflage behavior (motto: just don't stand out) or his non-perception of the environment.
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