“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us?

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo…