Morgan Ashcom
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petervanbeveren | 1 annan recension | Nov 2, 2023 | So so. Some images are powerful and generally the style is very free, mixing in a wise way color and bw. But the narrative experiment (images text) is very bold and the result is not really effective.
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d.v. | 1 annan recension | May 16, 2023 | Morgan Ashcom began ‘Open’ while making photographs of daily life in Occupied Palestine in 2009. As Ashcom departed Palestine for his home in the United States, Israeli security forces opened his box of unprocessed film, exposing the images he had made to light. Assuming they were ruined, Ashcom left the mostly unexamined film in his studio for over ten years. Meanwhile, the Israeli imposed apartheid continued.
In 2021, Ashcom revisited the negatives and saw new potential in them: the film was not ruined; rather, the tenuously visible images referenced resiliency and vulnerability, censorship and subversion, erasure and its reversal.
‘Open’ has been published by Gnomic Book. After production costs are covered, half of the proceeds will go to Human Supporters Association (HSA), a grassroots Palestinian organization. ‘Open’ is a unique object: a box referencing Ashcom’s film box in and of itself, suggesting a paradox: should you open the box, or are you forbidden from doing so? Inside rests a passport-like book containing 34 pictures. Translucent paper overlays and obscures the imagery with code fragments from communications between international financial institutions, Wajdi Yaeesh (founder of HSA), and Ashcom, as they attempted to sell c-prints from ‘Open’ to raise funds for HSA.
The occupying Israeli forces exploited this bureaucratic process, preventing Yaeesh from verifying his identity in order to receive the donations. While the text originated from this experience, it takes on new meaning as a form of concrete poetry. Through erasure and distortion of text and photographic information, ‘Open’ offers the possibility to imagine alternatives to the histories and futures imposed by the Israeli apartheid.… (mer)
In 2021, Ashcom revisited the negatives and saw new potential in them: the film was not ruined; rather, the tenuously visible images referenced resiliency and vulnerability, censorship and subversion, erasure and its reversal.
‘Open’ has been published by Gnomic Book. After production costs are covered, half of the proceeds will go to Human Supporters Association (HSA), a grassroots Palestinian organization. ‘Open’ is a unique object: a box referencing Ashcom’s film box in and of itself, suggesting a paradox: should you open the box, or are you forbidden from doing so? Inside rests a passport-like book containing 34 pictures. Translucent paper overlays and obscures the imagery with code fragments from communications between international financial institutions, Wajdi Yaeesh (founder of HSA), and Ashcom, as they attempted to sell c-prints from ‘Open’ to raise funds for HSA.
The occupying Israeli forces exploited this bureaucratic process, preventing Yaeesh from verifying his identity in order to receive the donations. While the text originated from this experience, it takes on new meaning as a form of concrete poetry. Through erasure and distortion of text and photographic information, ‘Open’ offers the possibility to imagine alternatives to the histories and futures imposed by the Israeli apartheid.… (mer)
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petervanbeveren | Nov 10, 2022 | Statistik
- Verk
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 18
- Popularitet
- #630,789
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- ½ 3.5
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 3
Leading us on a trail through the town and its surrounding forest, Ashcom presents scenes that point to a mysterious history, and people whose familial connections remain unknown: a forlorn old man, with champagne to hand, reclines on the corroding steps of a once grand home; a bloodied mattress is carried through an overgrown field; a solitary child burrows into a meadow, while on the streets, a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence – a vision that belies a local mural of a distant, ancient land.
Interspersing this fragmented narrative is a set of texts – four letters responding to ‘Morgan’s’ request for DNA analysis – written by ‘Eugene’ of the ‘Center for Epigenetics and Wellness of the Spirit’. If What the Living Carry provides a set of clues to unravel the enigma behind this strange world, it is through a visual record that is simultaneously autobiographical and imagined, and inclined to elude.… (mer)