The Wind Blows, 2016, pigment print, 25.5 × 19 inches. All images courtesy of the artist.
Journey, 2016, pigment print, 17.75 × 17.75 inches.
Afterwards, 2016, pigment print, 34 × 23.25 inches.
Puppeteer, 2016, pigment print, 20.5 × 14 inches.
Out of Sight, 2015, pigment print, 26.75 × 18 inches.
Memory Sequence, 2014, pigment print, 27.25 × 18.25 inches.
Disappearing on White I, 2015, pigment print, 25 × 16.25 inches.
Ville Kumpulainen is a photographer living and working in Helsinki, Finland. In his new book, Out of Sight (Hatje Cantz, 2017), Kumpulainen manipulates archival images to solidify the tenuous connection between present and past, attempting to fill the gaps left between himself and his history.
Two novels about grief, translation, and the revelatory traces of language.
Photographing hidden and alternative histories.
In advance of the next installment of his extensive history of New York City, Wallace expounds on the pivotal early years of the twentieth century.
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Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
