Interrogating the ‘Shuttered Society’

Support this blog to help us keep going, and going, and going ….. Christian Borchert, Familie W. (Schutzpolizist, Montiererin) – Family W. (Policeman, Factory Worker), Berlin 1983 The exhibition ‘Geschlossene Gesellschaft’, literally translated as the closed or the shuttered society, is a survey of art photography in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1989 currently on display…

Dinh Q. Lê’s Erasure

Fill out our online survey. Dinh Q. Lê, Erasure, 2011, detail (video still). Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Dinh Q. Lê’s ‘Erasure’ is an interactive sculptural exhibition which critically interrogates the notion of the migrant via a video piece and a huge collection of abandoned photographs the artist bought from second hand shops in…