Field Note

I Really Feel Things

by Rob Horning

Smartphones and social media have inserted themselves between us and the outside world, but this is an problem in a new form – the pursuit of unmediated experience has always been a hopeless endeavour. wurde. It is a bit like a donut; there is a hole in the middle.

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Exhibition view of “Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente” at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019

Photo: Dinis Santos / CM Porto

Maria Trabulo at Galeria Municipal do Porto

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Edouard Manet, Bouquet de Violettes,  1872 as seen on the cover of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal

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Adam Linder, She Clockwork , 2019 Performance, costume objects, and wallpaper

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Sharon Tate as Jennifer North in the film version of  Valley of the Dolls  (1967). Photograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com

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Hedi Slimane, image Courtesy of Celine

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