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Read more“The Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow made a career of disassembling the body, of exposing its weaknesses, its many vulnerabilities, whether through the uses and abuses it’s been put to in the abattoir of twentieth-century history or at the mercy of the more mundane, if no less fatal, everyday mortality. If that sounds like a bit of a downer, worry not: Szapocznikow managed to keep a sly tongue firmly in cheek, and her work, for all its startling beauty, its nearly unbearable intimacy, its sublime evocation of pain and disease and suffering, is witty, even funny.”
Read more from Yevgeniya Traps on Alina Szapocznikow here. Her sculptures will be on display, through January 28, at the Museum of Modern Art.
Read moreAlamagordo, New Mexico, 2013 – Raul warms himself and boils a pot of water on a fire in front of his roadside home. He crossed the border into California 35 years ago, but has lived in NM for ten years from odd jobs and stucco construction. The home he shares with his brother has no heating, so he brings buckets of steaming hot water indoors each night to heat the room. ”Life is hard, you know, but I’m never going back to Mexico.”
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 