Kayla Linda Kasarherou

https://www.artforum.com/features/walking-the-line-the-art-of-francis-alys-173996/ = WALKING THE LINE: THE ART OF FRANCIS ALŸS Writing in response to Alÿs’s most recent—and perhaps most poetic—intervention to date, art historian and critic Mark Godfrey reflects on the practice of an artist who explores history, culture, and political conflict in eloquently corporeal terms. By treating the string as a code and these illustrations as its key, you could work out the path of the walk that was being described—but only for the fragment of cord visible from the landing. Up and down the string stretched, disappearing into sunlight above and darkness below. Here was a work that provided the tools for its own decryption while making any comprehensive interpretation impossible: a neat allegory for Alÿs’s recent practice. In the show’s catalogue, Alÿs speaks of his wish to explore the “human desire to match up to the perfection of geometry,” and indeed, it’s hard to imagine even the least mi...

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/alys-francis/ = Francis Alÿs caught the attention of the international art community following a number of idiosyncratic Performances enacted in Mexico City. While acts that included walking a mechanical dog down city roads were greeted with bewilderment by locals, his Mexican street recitals gave notice of the artist's uniquely imaginative approach to broaching anthropological and geopolitical themes, while simultaneously helping secure Mexico's place on the world map of contemporary art. As his career progressed, Alÿs further enhanced his reputation by working in volatile border zones across Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East. These challenging locations have provided a context for inspired works that tackle themes of localism and globalism, usually within one and the same creative action. His diverse and multi-disciplinary practice, that includes performance, documentary film, painting, drawing, and photography, sees Alÿs wo...

https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/francis-alys = Belgian-born Francis Alÿs (b. 1959) is known for his in-depth projects in a wide range of media, including documentary film, painting, drawing, performance, two-dimensional animation, and video. Through his practice, Alÿs consistently directs his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward anthropological and geopolitical concerns centered around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life. The artist himself has described his work as “a sort of discursive argument composed of episodes, metaphors, or parables.” Born in Antwerp, Alÿs originally trained as an architect. He moved to Mexico City in 1986, where he continues to live and work, and it was the confrontation with issues of urbanization and social unrest in his country of adoption that inspired his decision to become a visual artist. The artist’s work has been represented by David Zwirner since 2004. He was the subject of solo exhibitions at the gallery’s New ...

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David Straight = https://booksellersnz.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/book-review-vernacular-by-philip-smith-photos-by-david-straight/ = Book Review: Vernacular, by Philip Smith, photos by David Straight How much notice do you take of the design of fences, gates and steps as you drive around your suburb? I can assure you when you read Vernacular you will look at some of these structures with renewed interest and fascination. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English gives the definition of ‘Vernacular’
“(of language) of one’s own native country, not of foreign origin…
(of architecture) concerned with ordinary rather than monumental buildings”. Philip Smith is an Auckland based landscape designer with a particular interest in advocating for New Zealand’s threatened plant species. He is also interested in the human imprint within New Zealand, particularly the forms and objects that arise from everyday lives. David Straight’s interest in the built environment started in London and Ne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Benge = Harvey Benge Harvey Benge (27 July 1944 – 7 October 2019) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Auckland and Paris. He exhibited his work in European galleries. Benge claimed that his photography was inspired by anything that attracted his attention while walking in the city. He stated that "the most successful photography raises questions, offers something else to the viewer".[2] In May 2007 he started his photo-blog called Photography + Art + Ideas on the Blogger platform to write about photography, photobooks, art and photographic concepts. He continued his writing and published his last article on 24 June 2019. Benge's first book, Four Parts Religion, Six Parts Sin was about Auckland. His second was about the Dalai Lama's visit to New Zealand. Not Here. Not There, contains cityscapes.[2] You Are Here (2007) chronicled his visit to Tokyo and was shortlisted for the Prix du Livre at the 2006 Rencontres d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Tillmans = Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photographer, and first non-British person, to be awarded the Turner Prize. He has been the subject of large-scale retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Moderna Museet. In 2023, Tillmans was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time. He lives in Berlin and London. Tillmans was considered the “documentarian of his generation, especially that of the London club and gay scenes” (though he has said "It was never my intention to be seen as diaristic or autobiographical. I was not recording the world around me or my tribe or whatever. There is a big misunderstanding there that still persists to this day."). Half of his work is staged...