Adam Broomberg - Glitter In My Wounds (signed) social

Adam Broomberg - Glitter In My Wounds (signed) socialMACK 2021 The result of a series of chance encounters, Glitter in My Wounds embraces accident and improvisation in the face of the restrictive categories that pervade art and life. The book is shaped around a series of portraits of the transgender activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg made by the artist and educator Adam Broomberg. Spelsberg sat for Broomberg and together they made 100 photographs, shot on 5x4 negative and lit only using the sun and

The starting point is his ongoing series ‘Model Studies’

Which traces settle history and human activities in a rural landscape

For this project

capturing the precious mixture of private lives lived in public and transient moments of connection between photographer and subject

we see that what’s not entirely comprehended is far more compelling than what is well understood

which connects and separates everything

led him to return and rediscover the country’s architectural heritage

While his meanderings through the Big Easy saw him piece together a playful dialogue of architectural gestures

veering between the promises of abstraction — ‘the showroom of grammar

The factories are empty and in a state of decay

I came through areas which reminded me physically and emotionally of my home town in Saxony

Through a diffuse but studied sequence of image and text