These images give pride of place to fantasies of purity, adventure, exoticism and authenticity, offending more complex realities: geopolitical interests on all sides, a colonial history that is little discussed as such, or a certain ambivalence in the face of climate change representing risks, but also opportunities. Shaped by countless documentary films, illustrated books or photographic reports, it is based on explorers acclaimed as heroes, a fauna that has become a generic symbol of global warming, or immaculate and iconic landscapes.
For several years, she has been studying, deconstructing and confronting the Western visual culture of the North Pole with reality. In residence in Qaanaaq, the northernmost town in Greenland, Anastasia Mityukova measures the distance between the imaginary of the Arctic Circle and its reality. It will bring together for the first time a major part of her work dedicated to the visual culture of the Arctic and the North Pole, the fruit of her current research undertaken in 2017. The 7-LP The Studio Albums Collection box set can be bought here.The Centre de la photographie Genève (CPG) presents the first major solo exhibition of the Geneva-based artist Anastasia Mityukova. The LPs are housed in handsome tip-on jackets that replicate the packaging of the originals, with an 80-page book featuring photos from the archive, reproductions of band ephemera and new liner notes from music journalist Roy Trakin. The launch coincides with the recent release of CCR’s 7-LP The Studio Albums Collection box set, which comprises the band’s complete seven-album studio output, mastered at half-speed at London’s Abbey Road Studios. I think everyone can relate to that.” Sasha Frolova adds, “I feel like everyone - if not a specific memory - has a sense memory of the kind of melancholy joy that this song. Song facts: The writer of Have You Ever Seen The Rain, John Fogerty, has said in interviews that the song is about the increasing tensions within Creedence Clearwater Revival due to the departure of Fogerty’s brother from the band. There’s a certain bliss when you’re young and you’re with your best friends - and you’re just utterly present and seizing the moment. And it’s that ineffable quality you can’t really describe – but for some reason whenever you put the song on, everybody smiles.”Īdds Moriarty: “For me the song means a few things it’s simultaneously really joyous and a little sad too…I think it’s just about soaking up those moments with the people we really love, particularly our chosen family. I think all of CCR’s music has a certain timeless quality to it. “It really relays a certain closeness…it’s exactly what you want a song to be. “‘Have You Ever Seen The Rain’ has always been about friendship for me,” says Quaid, the son of actors Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. The visual stars of the project concur about the visceral power of the John Fogerty-penned 1971 hit, lifted from Credence’s Pendulum album. Our crew poured so much love into this thing, and we worked with wonderful Montanans who just opened their doors and wanted to be a part of the experience.” “My writing partner and I developed this story about three best friends hanging in Montana until one of them moves away.
Not teenage years, but specifically your early 20s when you’re still growing and trying to become someone. “Something distinctly real that encapsulated identity. “I knew I wanted to tell a coming-of-age story,” says Jacobs.
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