UNVEILING DEPTH
CHALLENGING PERCEPTION

Contributor

August Reclain

Writes on dispossession, terrain, and the geographies of refusal. Trained in historical geography; concerned with the spatial logic of institutions and the populations they produce.

4 essays

ART CRITICISM|

The Model After Bresson

Bresson wore the performance off the face until something involuntary surfaced. The present face, worn down to its substrate, discloses only a smoother performance underneath.

The Metaphysics of Attention

Caravaggio understood that vision is a contract requiring darkness as its second signature. The present has cancelled the second signature and called the result clarity.

ON SOCIETY|

The Jungian Shadow

A man speaks calmly across a kitchen table about his cruelty. He calls it his edge, his dark side, the part of him that needs to be honoured. The cruelty itself has not moved. What has changed is that he now narrates it while it happens.