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Johanna Kotlaris: Jessica Jessica JessicaIn her artistic practice, Johanna Kotlaris invents fictional characters through which she tells stories. These are narratives that explore the complexity of interpersonal relationship dynamics and the various energies that arise from them, or the ways in which we resolve conflict or exercise care. She describes the fragile balance of such dynamics, as well as the structural social problems that affect our relationships with the self and the outside

was always a point of departure and a reference for the design and concept

This includes its title—LEAVES—as a metaphor for the act of learning

engaging with Clement Greenberg’s theories on form and self-criticism while simultaneously acknowledging the importance of taste

The images raise questions about the historical function of ornament and its contemporary transformations

an emphasis on repetition as an endless process

and cutting

The images are supplemented by a text by the art historian and curator Gabrielle Schaad and an account of a journey by the artist Clifford E

It redrew the borders of Turkey and Greece while also dividing Kurdistan between Turkey

Research for Peace Love Warrior Dragon is an arrangement in book form of photographs taken by Michael Bodenmann on a trip through China

and various (European) cities with the photo and film camera

His photographs

illuminated and expounded by two essays from architect Wendy Gilmartin