Justine Kurland - SCUMB Manifesto Japan

Justine Kurland - SCUMB Manifesto JapanMACK 2022 Inspired by Valerie Solanas iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurlands own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Mens Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by

and visual accidents

Their concise images freeze time and place

A series of notes by the artist and an interview with Lewis Baltz provide further insight

capture the textures and rhythms of urban life

Michael Schmidt has forged a new pictorial language to deconstruct the world he observes

und wieder in den Nebel des Geschichte zurücksinken läßt

alongside the literacy

Accompanied by Koen Potgieter’s insightful contemplation

not too distant in terms of time but profoundly different in desires and hopes for their future

portraiture and landscape

flora and street ephemera – all rendered in the almost impossibly vibrant hues unique to the famed city – his strolls through the German capital shimmer with a very different palette

‘moves with effervescent grace from rebel musket to trophy wife