Rather than capturing actual therapy sessions, these photos show their spaces, unoccupied, in between appointments. Thurber’s photos offer compelling proof that furniture, objects, artworks, and architectural details together create tremendously different spaces and experiences of therapy, positing that the arrangement of things shapes social and psychological dynamics, whether healing or disparaging.
Walking through Vom Abend, Joe Bradley’s new show at David Zwirner in Chelsea, gave me the sense I was traipsing through heady conversations and the pulsation of music, following wisps of smoke with my nose like a cartoon character.
Delporte looks at herself from the panoramic distance of time and perspective, to witness her life through the eyes of her new self and identity. It opens with a desire to “overwrite” the man-made images of lesbians; the rest of the book shows her reckoning with the misogynistic culture that shaped her and her embodied experience.
Notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are specially summarized here Daniel Buren