"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

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.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

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.

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