Mira Moiseyev
Writes on visual culture, legibility and the economics of taste.
Published
Alexandra Resnikov: Building Bridges Between Art, Culture, and Contemporary Dialogue
Much of contemporary art, at least implicitly, engages with the human condition. So what does an exhibition titled Human Being add to a subject that is already so familiar? Alexandra Resnikov’s answer, staged at the Mandarin Oriental Savoy in Zurich last October, was to shift both the context and the terms of the conversation.
Seeking Otherness: Latvian photographer Eva Duman on difference-seeking and soul-capturing
Photojournalism finds one of its fathers in the Scottish photographer John Thomson, who in 1873 travelled through rural China with one of the first portable cameras, a “dark mysterious instrument” which, combined with an intensified eyesight, held the power “to pierce the very souls of the natives, and to produce miraculous pictures by some black art” (John Thomson, Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873 to 1874).
The Refusal to Be Read
Why Gen Z's obsession with aesthetic clarity is flattening identity, and what it means to resist it