When Images Flood & Flatten
Ilaria Sponda
3/10/2025
OVER Journal
#5
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Reflecting on a selection of FUTURES artists embracing a slower, reflective approach
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Photography is shifting, expanding, and mutating in response to digital acceleration, artificial intelligence, and networked culture. While transformations and transfigurations are intrinsic to the medium’s evolution, in today’s image-saturated world, a slowness has nevertheless emerged, delivered by a new generation of artists seeking to anchor their work in reflection, materiality, and care for the self and the other. This deliberate embrace of deceleration underscores a desire to reconnect with the medium’s tactile and temporal dimensions, while also facilitating deeper engagement and emotional resonance...Read the full article in the printed issue. Get OVER Journal 5
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About
Ilaria Sponda
Ilaria Sponda is a writer and curator. Interdependently, her activities support a practice at the intersection of contemporary art, image culture, and systems of cultural distribution. Her writing has been featured in renowned print and online magazines such as Der Greif, Monocle, The British Journal of Photography, and Schön! alive, Fakewhale, Cartography, C41, NERO, and Lampoon, editorial contributions for which she has conducted interviews with key figures in contemporary art, design, architecture, and culture.
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