“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Wednesday February 26th — —

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” – Herbert Simon — Wednesday February 26th — —

“I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time.” — Nayyirah Waheed — Wednesday February 26th — —

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Another Canvas

Exploring the meaning and significance of the image in our media-saturated world

What is the residual value of an image shared on the internet in today’s volatile visual culture? This fundamental question served as the starting point for our collaboration with contemporary artist and architect Sergei Sviatchenko, known for his pioneering work in collage—a partnership more than ten years in the making. After producing numerous images while working in-house for Atelier Munro over the past three years, we found ourselves questioning: What truly remains of this work once the images are no longer actively used? And what have people actually seen and will even be remembered? A hard question to answer in the world we live in. To explore this, we invited Sergei to use our publicly available earlier work as the foundation for a new series of art. For which photography and art expert Roderick van der Lee wrote the introductory essay. [ Continue reading ]