between the skin and sea
review by Jörg Colberg ~ CPH Mag
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...'between the skin and sea
is filled with a dread that cannot truly be named because it’s more
than what was produced by the pandemic. It’s difficult to remember this
now, but there also was a real beauty to the many manifestations of
solidarity that emerged at the time (at least until we all got so tired
of living under that particular Damocles sword).
The book contains frequent allusions to those as well, to the
reaching out and being with each other, realizing that the physical
distance we would have to observe only served to remind us of the
closeness we felt with each other.
This is the kind of book that could only have been made by a mature
artist, someone who has been in this world for a while to know about her
own and other people’s vulnerabilities, someone who has had her fair
share of suffering and disappointments, someone who knows how to pull a
widely felt sentiment out of her innermost emotional core.'
'Instead, art has to remind us of what little shards of shared
humanity we have left. Photographs ask us to see — and then to feel (or
rather the good ones do; the others are still only pictures of sticks
and stones that no highfalutin statement can salvage).
And this is the age where we have to force ourselves to look, to see,
to feel — and then to act. For things to get better, we will have to
start out at the smallest scales — a little kindness to a stranger
maybe, or a smile.'
