Lurie’s new collection strikes at the very heart of the dilemma of unequal access to the technological means of production – the digital sphere usually reached via the ubiquitous smartphone. Having such access is a non-negotiable to act within a global economy and socius – and yet the technological system is subject to autocratic control, which turns people’s desire to connect into their personal data to be commodified and sold.
Lurie picks up the broken pieces. Never lured by what is fashionable or appropriate, he chooses to gift us with that which is indigestible. No dark reasoning feeds this decision. It is simply the way he looks at the world and the way it looks back at him. Because there is no moral code at work, no need to right a wrong, we are allowed – if willing – worlds as tender, as real as they are indecipherable.
- Ashraf Jamal. Love and Squalor (and other dreams)
DREAMING THE STREET
Photography is the perfect instrument for capturing the urban street as a place of dreams because of its dreamlike character. Roland Barthes put the matter well in Camera Lucida. Studying a photo of his dearly beloved, recently-dead mother, madness takes him over (as he puts it). Barthes feels she has emerged from the photo ghostlike or spectral
