Posts Tagged ‘ decay ’

Conflict

June 26, 2011

This article was written in the midst of the second round of Peru’s presidential election season. By the time of its publication, the elections will have already taken place and a new regime will be governing my country.


Atrophy

June 26, 2011

‘A Rainbow Nation’: the famous words used by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe the unity of races and merging of cultures in post-apartheid South Africa after the 1994 election. The V & A strives to represent this rainbow nation in their new exhibition Figures and Fictions: exhibiting a selection of contemporary South African photography, these [...]


Helena Davies on The Timelessness of Environmental Art

March 11, 2011

When Monet sat down to paint ‘La Promenade d’Argenteuil’ in the 1870s, I wonder if he knew that over a hundred years later the debate surrounding those smoking chimneys, that he sought to adopt into his new depiction of the landscape, would still exist. It was Thomas Hardy who stood firmly on the other side [...]