Posts Tagged ‘Aurora Crispin’

On Collecting: Building a Better Me

Aurora Crispin, A Selection of Everything, 2012; installation view, Important Projects, Oakland. Courtesy of Important Projects. Photo: Important Projects.

From our partners at Art Practical, today we bring you a look back at Christina Catherine Martinez’s essay on collections, which she calls “an arrangement of language and objects toward a social purpose… the work of fencing off some discernible patch of belonging amid the wild landscape of existence.” This article was originally published on February 6, 2014. In 2005, Aurora Crispin set out to photograph every[…..]