Collier Schorr - Paul's Book feministMACK 2019 There is a common assumption about youth which is: Youth is about youth. But that isnt really true. Youth is really about the past. Youth is not the pool that young men gaze adoringly into; it is the pool that old men gaze in, in order to measure the distance their bodies have traveled. Collier Schorr Collier Schorr met Paul Hameline, a young French artist and model, in New York in 2015. A friend of friend, he came to her home for a go see,
Bringing together an ensemble of works that Sekula never had the chance to publish together before his death in 2013
they show a fragile reality beyond certainties and often with clear signs of decay
Can the grooves of old mental habits be effaced
As each is seemingly doubled or reincarnated
A book that tells very gently about the distance that can exist between people who actually should be close
I found the booklet of a 90’s German punk compilation CD
The publication shows its search and travel in this place as a constant research of historical past
The photographs I used to make them came from my years of collection as well as the camera of my own–the first half was collected and the other half was mostly shot by myself
showing the transition from street to sidewalk
was influenced by architectural history
seducing us with bucolic views in which telling details only gradually appear: painted kerbs
color words
