The Parameters of our Cage - Alec Soth, C. Fausto Cabrera (Discourse series) research from one- to six-ply

from one- to six-ply

The title of this series evokes both the intersection between the natural and man-made world in which Shibata situates his practice

gaunt features he epitomised the era’s male creative ideal

community and passion are the threads that lace it all together

with artworks for new worlds and systems – ranging from machines that pay homage to the Industrial Revolution to pavilions that reinvent agriculture

The Parameters of our Cage - Alec Soth, C. Fausto Cabrera (Discourse series) research from one- to six-plyIn January 2020, Alec Soth received a letter from Chris Fausto Cabrera, an inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City, asking the photographer to engage in a dialogue. This sparked an expansive and insightful correspondence over the following nine months, set against the backdrop of the Covid 19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement, and growing unrest, which reaches to the heart of contemporary America. In amongst their exchanges of