"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.

»Mir scheint, dass es im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert ein naives Ziel ist, sich im Kontext der heutigen Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie mit zeitgenössischer Kunst einen Rang erkämpfen zu wollen.«

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.

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

“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.’”