By Sarinah Masukor — 20 November, 2020
This is the fifth and final column in an ongoing fiction series about the creative process. You can read the fourth column, Hemlock Forest, here. After I turned off the bascule bridge, the road opened onto three straight lanes. The traffic thinned and I crept up through eighty, a hundred, moved into sixth and…
By Sarinah Masukor — 13 November, 2020
This is the fourth column in an ongoing fiction series about the creative process. You can read the third column, Banana Study, here. There’s something I haven’t told you. A woman in a dark red swimsuit lies face down beside a pool. She’s still, arms heavy, locked on the concrete. The air is hazy, windless….
By Sarinah Masukor — 13 August, 2020
This is the third column in an ongoing fiction series about the creative process. You can read the second column, Shooting Days, here. Hito Steyerl is wearing a hooded, puffy jacket and a pearl earring. The soft light fogs around her face. Behind her, blurred and muted through the lens, peak hour traffic. The jacket…
By Sarinah Masukor — 9 June, 2020
This is the second column in an ongoing fiction series about the creative process. You can read the first column, Deep Sleep, here. There’s something I haven’t told you. I dream. A lifted phrase: I don’t think you’d stay at something for 15 years when no one’s interested unless you have something—like ‘I’ll show…
By Sarinah Masukor — 24 April, 2020
In deep sleep, new memories sink in. A lifted phrase: The sleeping brain provides optimal conditions for consolidation processes that integrate newly encoded memory into a long-term store. Close your eyes softly and picture a blank white screen on the underside of your eyelids. The painting is small for a wave. Dimensions 46 x 55…
By Sarinah Masukor — 17 November, 2017
For the group exhibition, INSIDE, curators Stella Rosa McDonald and Rafaela Pandolfini have brought together a collection of new and old works that signify unstable, recalcitrant and predominantly female bodies. Some of the nineteen artists included fit this interpretive framework plainly, while others stretch into more complex conceptual terrain – the body, if it is…