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

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

2007 hatte ich die Idee, einen Spielfilm über eine deutsche Frau zu machen, die im Irak entführt wird. Es sollte ein reines Kammerspiel werden.

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.

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

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”