Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) Design investigating its creative and critical

investigating its creative and critical potential and how it can thrive as a cultural force

Dabei behandelt es eine Fülle von Theorien aus der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart – von der Annahme eines einzelnen

Whether you’re a regular at the NOPI restaurant and want to know the secret to your favourite dish or are an Ottolenghi fan who wants to try out restaurant-style cooking

is “a has taken place**”

inscrutability and enigma

Against Barthes - Joan Fontcuberta (Discourse Series) Design investigating its creative and criticalThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys function as a visual document: an injunction to look at this. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with