Gazing out as a way of looking in
For the upcoming group photography exhibition, those eyes – these eyes – they fade, which opens on July 12 at Valletta Contemporary, Steve Bisson interviewed the participants and curator with a view to publishing their conversations on the Urbanautica platform of which he is the founder. Below are extracts from these exchanges which reveal process and practice within the artists’ body of work.
Bisson is an educator at Paris College of Art, polyhedric curator and founder of the Urbanautica – Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes. Since 2009, Urbanautica has fostered debate on the role of image-makers through interviews, reviews, exhibitions, research and publications.
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