There is No Place: Paintings by Kibong Rhee
Ephemeral landscape paintings by Korean artist Kibong Rhee. He creates scenes from the natural world that are hazy and dreamlike by layering clear plexiglass on top of canvas. The idea of painting landscapes obscured by fog seems simple enough but his treatment encourages the viewer to look intently at the works. Using water as a primary element, Rhee believes that water, in all its forms, embodies life’s fleeting moments, existing somewhere between the spiritual and physical worlds. Faith is Torment
‘Rebel Riders’, Vogue Italia December 2015.
Photographer: Tim Walker
Featuring models Anna Cleveland, Christina Carey, Erin O'Connor and Jamie Bochert. Styled by Jacob K; Makeup by Val Garland; hair by Julien D'ys
“Did these people [in academia who claim that they are not exposed to disabled people] realize that when they encountered the work of Rosa Luxemburg (who limped), Antonio Gramsci (a crippled, dwarfed hunchback), John Milton (blind), Alexander Pope (dwarfed hunchback), George Gordon Brown (club foot), [Jorge] Luis Borges, James Joyce, and James Thurber (all blind), Harriet Martineau (deaf), Toulouse-Lautrec (spinal deformity), Frida Kahlo (osteomyelitis), Virginia Woolf (lupus), they were meeting people with disabilities? Do filmgoers realize when they watch the films of James Ford, Raoul Walsh, André de Toth, Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett and William Wyler that these directors were all physically impaired? Why is it when one looks these figures in dictionaries of biography or encyclopedias that their physical disabilities are usually not mentioned – unless the disability is seen as related to creativity, as in the case of the blind bard Milton or the deaf Beethoven? There is an ableist notion at work here that anyone who creates a canonical work must be physically able. Likewise, why do we not know that Helen Keller was a socialist, a member of the Wobblies, the International Workers of the World, and an advocate of free love? We assume that our ‘official’ mascots of disability are nothing else but their disability.”
– Lennard J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (via irwonder)
Waiting for the End of the World, Dima Rebus
The Smell of Death, Edvard Munch
Kaprisch (via Patrick Tetaert)
