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No image satisfies her
Imperial (2010), by Holly Bynoe; digital collage, 40 x 60 inches Holly Bynoe is a visual artist and editor-in-chief of ARC Magazine . A portfolio of her amazing work is published this month at the Caribbean Review of Books . As noted by Melanie Archer, Bynoe, in writing about her work, refers to Walter Benjamin's idea of the "fan of memory": He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments; no image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds does the truth reside; that image, that taste, that touch for whose sake all has been unfurled and dissected; and now remembrance advances from small to smallest details, from the smallest to the infinitesimal, while that which it encounters in these microcosms grows ever mightier. >>>SEE & READ MORE here .
Wrestling with the Image
SEE RICHARD RAWLINS E-CAT here . The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , an exhibition of contemporary art from twelve Caribbean countries. Featuring work by artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator Christopher Cozier and art historian Tatiana Flores. Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions presents works in a variety of media, including photography, video, painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and installation. The scope of the objects demonstrates how the region’s contemporary artists are confronting stereotypes about the Caribbean without denying their own surroundings or rejecting the worlds in which they operate. Through investigations on history, tourism...
Town, Issue 4, has pedigree
Pedigree by Holly Bynoe (2009) The latest issue of Town , which I am sadly only now getting around to because I have been a very very bad boy these last few months, features work by artist Holly Bynoe and poetry by Agnes Lehoczky and Ishion Hutchinson. READ more here .