Shumon Basar - ‘Everyone seemed to vanish, …’ (2021)

Everyone seemed to vanish, except you …

Shumon Basar’s essay on my art, coinciding with the publication of the NOWHERE, Imagining the Global City publication in March 2021.

Shumon Basar is a writer, thinker and cultural critic. He is co-author of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Penguin/Blue Rider, March 2015). His edited books include Translated By, Cities from Zero and Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Volume 2. He is Commissioner of the Global Art Forum in Dubai, editor-at-large of Tank magazine and contributing editor of Bidoun magazine, director of the Format program at the AA School, and an advisor to Miucca Prada and the Fondazione Prada, Milan.

“During the paused time of the pandemic, Frank van der Salm’s images feel different. They take on the quality of prophetic realism. (..) His urban vistas, his bucolic landscapes, his portraits of super modernity, are mostly empty of human presence.”

Date: March 2021
Essay by Shumon Basar. (English)
Download the complete interview in PDF HERE