Seth Lower - The Sun Shone Glaringly MACK as designer Akira Minagawa sympathises

as designer Akira Minagawa sympathises with the lifestyle and the culture of Finland

watercolours and silkscreen prints – being shown for the first time in Switzerland in the exhibition State of Mind at Villa Flor in S-chanf

emotions which are still more associated with woman than men

Their common history provides an indispensable background to discussions of what has been called the contemporary past – modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period

Seth Lower - The Sun Shone Glaringly MACK as designer Akira Minagawa sympathisesSeth Lowers second photobook explores an observation he made about Los Angeles after moving to the city in 2010: the slippages between the real and mediated experience. Throughout the book, the comically unresolved drama of our unnamed hero emerges from several distinct elements: photographs of generic but oddly familiar movie set locations around the city; portraits of aspiring actors glaring into the sun; awkwardly poetic dialogue and screenplay