Raphael Hefti at the Camden Arts Centre
Peckham, yr in for a treat this weekend - DJ Twitch & JD Wilkes coming south with their infamous Optimo soundsmash
You won’t like it sugar
Film // Tacita Dean
The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
I went to see this and was mesmerised, and then curious, and then delighted, and fell in love with film as if it was the first time.
I bought the catalogue, which not only going into such wonderful detail about the in-camera masks used to make this film, but also contains almost a hundred stories/articles/thoughts on the analogue format and the many reasons why digital mustn’t be allowed to trample all over it. It’s a beautiful thing. It gives me hope knowing there are so many people committed to preserving these fast-fading mediums.
Go see it, eh?
![“I found itinerant hawkers of curios selling the hippocampus, tied in bundles of three with red worsted. These were sold for luck, a poor survival of a very old and grander legend…[in Venice] I found that the wives of fishermen, nursing babies, kept a dried sea horse on their breasts to facilitate the flow of milk… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat [the gondola] is evolved from the sea horse.” Edward Lovett, ‘Magic in Modern London’, p. 87Pink glass sea horse, used as a charm.Courtesy Pitt Rivers Museum [1985.51.541]
Part of the Charmed Life Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo10hZV571qzi4jfo1_400.jpg)
“I found itinerant hawkers of curios selling the hippocampus, tied in bundles of three with red worsted. These were sold for luck, a poor survival of a very old and grander legend…[in Venice] I found that the wives of fishermen, nursing babies, kept a dried sea horse on their breasts to facilitate the flow of milk… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat [the gondola] is evolved from the sea horse.” Edward Lovett, ‘Magic in Modern London’, p. 87
Pink glass sea horse, used as a charm.Courtesy Pitt Rivers Museum [1985.51.541]
Part of the Charmed Life Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London
The Anatomy of Desire // Charlie Murphy
Casts of intimacy
At the Wellcome Collection til the 30th November
I thank our Lord Saint Francis of Assisi for saving us from drowning on 27 October 1962.
(Monterrey, Nuevo León).
Oil on tin, 1962. Propiedad del Santuario de San Francisco de Asís de la Diócesis de Matehuala, SLP, Mexico/INAH
From a collection of Mexican Votives currently on display at the Wellcome Collection, London.
