Today’s Eastern Europe: Photo I, Photo You at Calvert22
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2010
The highlights of Photo I, Photo You are many. Among them are the randomly overlapping photo-collages of celebrated Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. Through his hybridization of various, seemingly unrelated images his works compel the viewer to look closer and read the composition for potential integrity and unity. Similarly, Albanian artist Anri Sala’s squawking and symmetrical super 16 film, Long Sorrow, requires a bit of piece-it-together brainpower from viewers, as they are confronted by the free jazz solo of American saxophonist, Jemeel Moondo who seems to hover above the symmetry of East Berlin’s rows of apartment blocks. Heady stuff to contemplate, nonetheless this visual double-take on the East of Europe’s uncertain stance in today’s world is a worthwhile endeavour.
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Today’s Eastern Europe: Photo I, Photo You at Calvert22
