Installation view of Thatcher is Dead by Julien Gremaud, 2014 This essay was originally published in FOAM Magazine’s new Talent Issue. The first part of this essay can be found here. Neoliberal ideology aggressively promotes leverage, risk and debt. This is true for governments and corporations, but it is also true for individual consumers. One…
Julien Gremaud, from the series Thatcher is Dead, 2014 This essay was originally published in FOAM Magazine’s new Talent Issue. Thatcher is Dead is the provocative yet matter-of-fact title of a series of images produced by Swiss artist Julien Gremaud. The images are purposefully obscure and consequently also difficult to read. At first sight they…
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…