Maya Jackson

Oct 25, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |Jjjjjerome Ellis |Muriel Leung |Giancarlo Montes Santangelo

Excavating public and private photographicarchives from Argentina and Puerto Rico,Giancarlo Montes Santangelo creates images that unravel the relationship betweenphotographs produced during the twentiethcentury, the subjects of those images, and theenduring effects of this capture. With these archival images, MontesSantangelo makes collages, prints them large,and stages himself and others within thecollages.

Sep 1, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |Jjjjjerome Ellis |Muriel Leung |David Everitt Howe

Translated by Sarah Booker(Coffee House, 2023)The internet never forgets. Lurkingbeneath that popular saying is a sharedanxiety about the murky corners andless-than-savory contents of the onlinerealm and what our digital activitiesmight reveal about our offline selves. Disclosures we make on the internetfunction as a kind of collective id forhumanity, so what do they say aboutus? For the Ecuadorean writer MónicaOjeda, nothing good.

Sep 1, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |David Everitt Howe

Decorum NY Coalition, New York. Photo by Erik McGregor/HBO. (HBO, 2023)Before I was asked to cover TheStroll, a documentary by activistsand filmmakers Kristen Lovell andZackary Drucker, I was invited to theopening of A District Defined: Streets,Sex, and Survival, a parallel exhibition sponsored by the MeatpackingDistrict Management Association at a“concept space” on West FourteenthStreet in Manhattan. Last summer,I attended a distinctly unmemorablefashion party at the same venue.

Sep 1, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Maya Jackson |David Everitt Howe

Jordan Firstman as Jordan and Sebastián Silva as Sebastián in Rotting in the Sun, 2023. (MUBI, 2023)Art imitates life—and life, art—inSebastián Silva's jaw-droppingly boldand provocative film, Rotting in theSun. It is the Chilean director’s ninthfeature, and one of the funniest anddarkest comedy-thrillers in recentmemory.