Room to Play

Room to PlayText by Lyle Rexer Simen Johan creates surreal and narrative tableaux of corrupted youth. His images of children and adolescents are constructed by digitally manipulating and combining parts of faces and bodies belonging to people of various ethnicities, ages, and genders. His fictional identities are depicted in equally fabricated scenarios that are replete with references to both the art historical tradition and Freudian sexuality. The poster

Edited by Michael Almereyda and Susan Kismaric

one we might imagine future humans having when revisiting their ancestral home

"As my consciousness spirals to its predestined disappearance

persistent and dense

75 x 10 inches

I think about thinking and am beyond the comfort of conformity

capturing the dark spectacle of the bullfights and the passions of the crowds who follow them

Gymnasts features photographs of the National Danish Gymnastic Team

letterpress-printed cloth cover

are reproduced here for the first time in large-format sheet-fed gravures

enough to suggest ideas about human limits

With dedication and intensity