For the manifesto A Criticism Review we invited different writers to contribute. More and more journals have closed or moved online in the past years and are commissioning fewer texts. In spite of the fact that the art scene is flourishing, many exhibitions go by almost unnoticed because of a lack of resources. However, the involuntary pause experienced by the art scene over the past eighteen months, and its reopening, have presented an opportunity to reflect on how we can make changes within the writing community, carving out new ideas about how to work and be published.

Through these texts we wish to promote all initiatives and hopefully inspire more newspaper and media to offer more room for art reviews. The image we used in the publication, and made as a risograph poster, is by Ola Rindal, used for a review of his book Night Light in Objektiv #8. The text (in Norwegian) is written by Jorunn Rike from Tronsmo bookstore:

Night, Light. Ola Rindal. Livraison Books, 2013

Utvaska snapshots av potensielt urovekkende scenarier om natta. Umiddelbarheten og overraskelsen i møtet med det ukjente. Famling i mørket, kameraets blitz som lyser opp og blender. Spenningen mellom frykten for å se og frykten for det usynlige. En fundamental uttrykksløshet som åpner for innlesning; av ensomme gatevandringer på den mørke sida eller primitive ritualer i naturen. Innholdet ligger i betrakterens blikk. Alt er printa så lyst, nesten helt hvitt, at vi myser for å se mer – og fornemmelsen er den samme som når du sperrer opp øynene og stirrer inn i mørket.

J.R