Post by Tomspy77 on Jul 6, 2013 0:43:38 GMT -6
Wraithlike figures and the spaces that rule them Read more: www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Jul-06/222725-wraithlike-figures-and-the-spaces-that-rule-them.ashx#ixzz2YFGTAUwb (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News ::
Ghost stories are, ultimately, optimistic things. Whether the understated, antiquarian tales popularized in the early 20th century by M. R. James, or their gratuitous contemporary successors punctuated by decapitation and writhing possession, all assume that the human spirit lives on after death.
“Of Places and Dust,” the comprehensive semiretrospective of analogue work by photographer and filmmaker Caroline Tabet, currently on show at Karantina’s Art Factum Gallery, evokes something of the Jamesian approach to ghostly presence, eschewing explanation in favor of implication and suggestion.
It is not only human figures that are depicted as phantasms, but the spaces these figures inhabit – for the most part crumbling buildings, derelict in peacetime. At once haunted and haunting, these abandoned places have a presence as powerful as that of their human subjects, their spirits enduring even as their architectural carcasses decay.
Read more: www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Jul-06/222725-wraithlike-figures-and-the-spaces-that-rule-them.ashx#ixzz2YFGe5m3y
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News ::
Ghost stories are, ultimately, optimistic things. Whether the understated, antiquarian tales popularized in the early 20th century by M. R. James, or their gratuitous contemporary successors punctuated by decapitation and writhing possession, all assume that the human spirit lives on after death.
“Of Places and Dust,” the comprehensive semiretrospective of analogue work by photographer and filmmaker Caroline Tabet, currently on show at Karantina’s Art Factum Gallery, evokes something of the Jamesian approach to ghostly presence, eschewing explanation in favor of implication and suggestion.
It is not only human figures that are depicted as phantasms, but the spaces these figures inhabit – for the most part crumbling buildings, derelict in peacetime. At once haunted and haunting, these abandoned places have a presence as powerful as that of their human subjects, their spirits enduring even as their architectural carcasses decay.
Read more: www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Jul-06/222725-wraithlike-figures-and-the-spaces-that-rule-them.ashx#ixzz2YFGe5m3y
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News ::