2009

Selections from the photographic component of the 2008 video ("After Hiroshima Mon Amour"), which is based on the film "Hiroshima Mon Amour," (1959; Dir. Alain Renais; Script, Marguerite Duras).

In the collection of MAMCO, Geneva.

Photographic production: Jeff Barnett-Winsby

(Inkjet on dibond; sizes variable)

Downloadable Texts

The inadequate archive:

Ethical remaking in Silvia Kolbowski's After Hiroshima mon amour

David Houston Jones

French Cultural Studies, November 2013 vol. 24 no. 4 417-429

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Models of Intervention:

A Discussion between Michèle Thériault and Silvia Kolbowski

Nothing and Everything, Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, 2009

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THE WORK OF MOURNING:

SILVIA KOLBOWSKI'S AFTER HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Luiza Nader

catalogue essay, After Hiroshima Mon Amour, Moderna Galerija, 2009

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Selected Bibliography

"After and Before," by Christopher Bedford, Frieze #119 (November/December) (web link - free reg. req'd)

"Remade in Silence: Silvia Kolbowski's A Film Will Be Shown without the Sound" by Bliss Cua Lim, Art Journal, Fall, 2007, vol. 66, no. 3, pp85-87.

http://kcet.org/local/blogs/blur_sharpen/2008/10/recycle-reuse.html

"Before After Hiroshima Mon Amour," Farimani (Winter, 2008)

"After Hiroshima Mon Amour" Art Journal, Fall, vol. 2007, 66, no. 3, pp80-84.

"Between Artists," in collaboration with Walid Raad, 2006, A.R.T. Press

"Models of Intervention: A discussion between Michèle Thériault and Silvia Kolbowski", Nothing and Everything , Silvia Kolbowski, Rien et Tout , (Catalogue; Galerie Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University) English and French.

"Hiroshima After Iraq," by Rosalyn Deutsche, October 131 (Winter 2010) pp3-22.

"Allegorical Imperative: Silvia Kolbowski's 'After Hiroshima Mon Amour'," by Rachel Kushner, Artforum, January 2009 pp190-195.