Living Pictures

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These fractured poem-stories are composed of disjunctively arranged images, slices of memory both personal and historical, and a shadowy array of citations of varying levels of obscurity and recognizability, creating unique prose tissues that carve out a space for themselves in an ambiguous zone between critical essay, autobiography, poetry, and short fiction. What is unambiguous is their success: They are extraordinarily powerful works, at turns densely evocative and dizzyingly erudite, doing many of the best things that writing can do. Barskova, following the method of her poetry, manages by painstaking technique and sheer force of image to ponder herself considering the Siege and its survivors, drawing from life and art to represent an experience of personal trauma mediated by communication with history. Painting walls and woodwork in the same colour, or slight tonal variations of the same hue, creates a monochromatic scheme that seamlessly stretches the look of the walls from the floor and ceiling,’ says Ruth Mottershead, Creative Director at Little Greene. Living Pictures is a highly poetic book about memories of a Soviet childhood and a reinvention in the USA, with interludes of a choir of voices from St. Petersburg. Polina Barskova’s prose elegantly joins all the genres to create a new narrative form. With more than 300 images by nearly 100 photographers, the largest-ever survey of south-east Asian photography is on show at the National Gallery Singapore. It attempts to place photography from and about the region in the compendiums of local art history, and in the history of photography at large.

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Moving into the fourth section of the show, New Subjectivity explores the disappearing distinction between photography and fine art, and the emergence of photographic discourse. Representing reality as truth is no longer photography’s endeavour, instead, it facilitates different meanings and understandings of it, and even reflects on the artificiality of the medium. Phasellus at velit eu nunc rutrum tincidunt quis in ipsum. Proin efficitur tincidunt congue. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia curae; Maecenas et lacus leo. Pellentesque eget sem metus. Sed maximus enim turpis, id vulputate sapien dictum hendrerit. Integer enim erat, pulvinar ac egestas vitae, vestibulum sed mauris. Curabitur placerat et magna id scelerisque. Donec sed orci vitae augue interdum ultrices sit amet faucibus dolor. Praesent fringilla rutrum nulla, nec interdum tellus mattis ac. Suspendisse ultricies ligula at felis venenatis hendrerit. Donec tincidunt commodo sodales. Maecenas a magna commodo, tempus sem id, mollis enim. Quisque at bibendum diam. Sed ultricies sem ut sapien tempor, eu ultrices lectus cursus. Barskova’s arguments or presentations of history or biography tend to follow poetic logic, and her own biography and recollections rest atop the city’s tragedy. Finally, Contemporary Imaginations immerses the visitor in the explosion of images in the present day. Referring to Walter Benjamin’s question about whether art was photography, this section recognises the omnipresence of photography as ‘a way of seeing, thinking, and interacting’ with the world. Here we see the vibrant and multilayered tableaux of Filipina artist Wawi Navarroza [above], who combines self-portraiture with the assembly of disparate objects to reflect on self and place. Representation is a recurring theme in the section, which unavoidably engages with political matters. In Dinh Q Lê’s Crossing the Farther Shore, for example, we see found photographs of anonymous South Vietnamese families taken before the country’s reunification in 1975.Please use this feature on your own historical photos and not on photos featuring living people without their permission.”