The Paris Review - Time Puts Its Stamp on Everything
, published this past month by MACK, the artist and writer Moyra Davey places her work in conversation with that of the photographer Peter Hujar. Before becoming a book, the project appeared as an exhibition at Berlin’s Galerie Buchholz in spring 2020. Thousands of miles away, confined to their New York City apartment, Eileen Myles printed out Davey’s and Hujar’s photographs and mounted their own private rendition of the show. The essay Myles wrote about this experience appears below. Peter Hujar, The Shabbiness of Beauty, by Moyra Davey and Peter Hujar ( MACK, 2021). Courtesy The Pet...
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