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.

13 comments:

bastinptc said...

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

Phill said...

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...

Anonymous said...

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.

John said...

SMART NOISES

Marilyn Andrews said...
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Marilyn Andrews said...

What does Amjad Faur's statement mean?

Robert W said...

I mean, duuhh

jon said...

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

Blake Andrews said...

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.

MarcWPhoto said...

I can beat that.

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

Microcord said...

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

moopheus said...

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

J. Wesley Brown said...

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.