Valentino the Couturier

Current exhibition at Somerset House in Central London

Further detail

Found my Toy on Boxing Day

Let me skip the holiday greetings and say Enjoy your Boxing Day.
Presents are only good if you like them and appreciate goodwill.

BALENCIAGA

這個世界

即使走到盡頭

都還是認為錢最重要

Delaney allen

" WE TEND TO 

IDENTIFY OURSELVES 

THROUGH OTHERS. 

I AM HER SON, 

THEIR FRIEND, 

HIS GIRLFRIEND...

BUT 

HOW DO WE 

FIND OURSELVES

 WHEN WE ARE ALONE? "

沒有身邊的一切

你的價值是什麼

你又是誰

"Self Portraits" 

is a series of photographs by artist Delaney Allen

He never reveals his face, 

but prefers to camouflage it 

using different fabrics and various objects.

Myoung Ho Lee

An artist from South Korea

In his series of photography, 

there are some unusual questions about 

representation, reality, art, environment and seeing. 

In this "Tree series" collection, 

he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings,

but separates the tree artificially from nature 

by presenting it on an immense white ground,

as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard.

He separates subjects from their original circumstances

to derange the difference between subject and image.

It reveals nature by twists and turns, a little fabrication and optical illusion.

Bertil Nilsson

Born in Sweden. Living and working in London, U.K.

In my work,

which takes inspiration from movement and the human form,

I collaborate extensively with dancers and circus artist. 

Photography is my primary medium of expression, 

but I also use moving image.

www.bertil.co.uk/ 

這就是人體與力量的美

不需用文字解釋的感動

Finite and infinite games

James P. Carse, 
the writer of Finite and Infinite Games, suggests:

There are at least two kinds of games.

One could be called finite, the other infinite.

The finite game is played for the purpose of winning,

an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play,

...and bringing as many persons as possible into the play.

Finite players play within boundaries;

infinite players play with boundaries.

Finite & Infinite Games,

An interdisciplinary dance film,
is a collaborative art project between a choreographer, 

filmmaker, visual artist, and fashion designer. 

is a celebration of unity and color. 

It draws inspiration from philosopher James P. Carse's 
"Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility."

The suite of nine dances, 
directed and choreographed by Katherine Helen Fisher,

seek to explore the individual's quest to find purpose in life 

through creation within community. 

Visual artist C. Finley created 
the 48'x12' non-repetitive geometric painted canvas
 as a comparative replication of the dance.

 Costumes by fashion designer Gai Mattiolo. 

Film by RJ Muna. Edited by Sam Chase.

The film was filmed at Judson Memorial Church in 2010,

a spectacular space with an illustrious collaborative arts history.

白

................................................白


...........................................................本是空無一物，純淨無他的一種空間狀態。


....................................它純潔，純淨，清澄，沒有摻雜的。


........................................................................就像當初開始define us一樣


.....................................................................年輕的我們

.........................................什麼都沒有

...........................................................猶如這背景

...........................................一張白色的廢紙

........................................................................................沒有一絲點綴


.................................................它或許什麼都不是

.............................................................卻隱含無限的可能


.....................................你找不到東西能去代表它

....................................................................它卻可以用自己去代表一切


..............................慢慢地

..............................................我們就能在平凡中看出不平凡

..............................................................在有限中找到無限


...............................................這就是我們眼中的白

...............................................................................................這就是define us

Anni Leppälä

 Statement of Artist

My interest towards photography is closely related to time in the past tense, to the possibility of being able to make a moment motionless, to make something stand still. That something has existed, and has now been set in static state. There is a certain aspect of lost moments and a feeling of letting go when looking at photographs. They exist at the intersection of the momentary and the constant, between the fleeting feeling of being alive and consciousness of the moments passing by.

 In my pictures, attempts in recognising and lighting of obscure and vague movements, are made visible. I want to approach the momentariness of living through constancy. The paradox is that when you try to conserve or protect a moment by stopping it, by photographing it, you inevitably lose it at the same time. I am interested in exploring these contradictions and borderlines between things, how distance relates to closeness. Symbolic meanings are essential in my works. I am interested in how the concrete surface of reality and photographs relate to metaphorical things that can be found underneath. I try to trace those kinds of occasions of seeing when words dissolve and scatter apart, objects and incidents intensify into symbolic language, silent information and intuitive interpretation. What fills the room behind the picture, allows one to step closer. Thoughts of incompleteness and insecurity are also important to my works. Objects and spaces can occur to be like transparent routes between the inside and the outside, between the seen surface and unconscious content. Museums and miniature rooms become entrances to each other. Balance and its fragility, delicacy are present simultaneously. How to stop a feeling, a memory? By binding it to visible objects, facades of material things, attaching it to a room’s walls, the surface of photographs. Like translucent skin with unforeseen memories beneath.