Why Hand-Crafted Portraits Are Vital Today

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various ways, however all share a level of sensitivity to the short lived: the ignored image, the half-remembered place, the unsteady boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet but insistent meditation on how implying collects in regular life.

To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, discreetly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world filled with images that appears to appear and vanish ever-more rapidly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides them a 2nd life in which they become permanent.'s minimalist abstractions have a particular ahistorical quality; they link multiple histories of product experimentation and development from around the world within a distinct visual language.