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A dry soul is wisest and best

Heraklitos

Mythical women frequently violate masculinity by enveloping male form in a fatal formlessness

Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
CLOUD9: Collective love on your desktop
CLOUD9: Collective love on your desktop
ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK (2011)
ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK (2011)
Shannon Ebner: The Continuous Present
Shannon Ebner: The Continuous Present
Shannon Ebner
Shannon Ebner

AL: What is the meaning of the asterisk in your work? Can you tell us a little bit about the form of the asterisk and its history?

SE: The asterisk interests me because it redirects sight. If an asterisk is used as a footnote in a text it redirects your sight to a different site in the text in pursuit of other information that is relevant to the text. For the purposes of photography the asterisk looks a lot like the sun typographically but on a much more manageable scale. Even though the sun is responsible for vision and for photographic exposures, we can’t actually look at or touch the sun and so it too directs our vision away from its source.

Shannon Ebner
Laura Kurgan
Laura Kurgan
Samir al-Sayegh
Samir al-Sayegh
Nja Mahdaoui
Nja Mahdaoui
Hassan Massoudy
Hassan Massoudy
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