Johnny Dufort, SS2021

Tina Berning’s practice articulates a resistance to the corrective mechanisms of the digital age. Central to her methodology is the acceptance of the irreversible mark; she notes that the absence of an “undo” function in watercolor and ink necessitates a state of heightened immediacy. Rather than dominating her medium, Berning describes the ink as a…

Captured in 1952 by German photographer Herbert List, this monochrome composition documents a local shepherd framed within the mouth of Orcus—a 16th-century sculpture located in the Sacro Bosco (Sacred Grove) in Bomarzo, Italy. List’s artistic practice was defined by a framework he termed “fotografia metafisica” (metaphysical photography). Influenced by Surrealism and the psychological dualities of…

Ren Hang (1987–2017) challenged contemporary photography through a raw lens that transformed the human body into a medium for sculptural poetry. Operating outside traditional institutional frameworks, his practice was defined by a radical immediacy, capturing his subjects—primarily close friends—in surreal, vulnerable compositions that subverted conventional notions of form and landscape.•His creative approach was fundamentally shaped…