The Value of Archival Portraits for Future Generations

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in different methods, however all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unstable boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet but insistent meditation on how suggesting builds up in regular life.

To me, her distinct language hazy, distorted, subtly unsettling reflects the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with imagery that appears to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he offers them a second life in which they end up being permanent.'s minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they connect numerous histories of product experimentation and development from around the world within a distinct visual language.