The Thread Wrapping Machine - Anton Alvarez public spaceAnton Alvarez has spent two years developing a machine that spins thousands of metres of brightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, producing solid benches, stools and lamps without traditional joints of any kind. The thread acts as an joining element, allowing the raw material being wrapped to be extremely elaborate without appearing so. Alvarezs work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is represented by
including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography
Evangelia Koutsovoulou
It highlights the print industry’s inequalities and proposes a takeover of the history of the book
brought together 320 photographs sequenced in the order in which they were originally documented
often captured only as traces and symptoms
and Germany
How do we move past binary thinking and embrace a more prismatic or nuanced view of the world
to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965
in the 20th century
assemblage
Seen in broad perspective
and performance work as a tool for engaging with common culture and its repressions