Sunday, April 17, 2011

Say What?

"While researching the content of my most recent body of work, I found that the dismantling of the photograph's stratified relationship to contingent readings of contemporary art shares a compelling commonality with concepts relating to the dispossession and colonization of native communities in the Levant."

—from Amjad Faur's artist statement, encountered last week in Portland.
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13 comments:

  1. bastinptcApril 17, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    Yeah, I read that and will be commenting on it in my piece next week in PORT. The work is nice, though.

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  2. PhillApril 17, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    Well it's clear to see the inescapable parallels between the photograph’s exacting abstraction of the world and our inclination to adore them as empirical objects in his work

    Wow...

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  3. AnonymousApril 17, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    The nature of straight photography has been objectified much in the same way that homosexuals and minorities have been marginalized in end of empire western societies which leaves us questioning our ability to determine which citizens and photographs deserve equality in our politicized art human society.

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  4. JohnApril 17, 2011 at 9:16 PM

    SMART NOISES

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  5. Marilyn AndrewsApril 17, 2011 at 10:10 PM

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  6. Marilyn AndrewsApril 17, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    What does Amjad Faur's statement mean?

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  7. Robert WApril 17, 2011 at 10:54 PM

    I mean, duuhh

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  8. jonApril 18, 2011 at 2:00 AM

    That's a Google translation from Bulgarian to Finnish, then to English, right?

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  9. Blake AndrewsApril 18, 2011 at 7:09 AM

    I'm afraid I have to say I think I might find it necessary to consider myself in agreement with the general tone of the various comments above.

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  10. MarcWPhotoApril 18, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    I can beat that.

    http://marcwphoto.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-dont-get-it-i-never-will-get-it-and.html

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  11. MicrocordApril 19, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    Somehow I am reminded of the subject matter of a certain philosophical essay, a fine work that I confidently recommend to all present.

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  12. moopheusApril 19, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    He missed "transgressive" and "postcolonial," so points off for that.

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  13. J. Wesley BrownApril 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    If you are thinking of making "Say What?" a regular feature, I'd be happy to contribute...not my own statements, I hope, but rather those I come across regularly that cause the same reaction.

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