
JESSE KRIMES, PURGATORY, 2009
Purgatory is a series of 300 prison-issued soap remanants depicting "offenders.". Using a hand-printing technique, Krimes transferred the New York Times portrait heads onto wet soap fragments, leaving inverse traces of the appropriated image…

MATILDA YUEYANG PENG, SPECIAL MATERIALS
People made of special materials” is a phrase commonly used to promote the realization of self-fulfillment and self-sacrifice in the communist context. Revolving around the effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on my family history, this project is a visualization of a “monologue” constantly going on between all times, people, and materials, especially the single-sided conversation that is speaking to and influencing generations of continual products of historical events...

CATHERINE OPIE, DYKE DECK, 1995
Catherine Opie’s legendary 52-piece Dyke Deck of playing cards. Released in 1995, they feature highly stylised portraits of Opie’s queer community, many friends and others cast during an open call in San Francisco…