Looking at Ackerman's work, it feels as if Ballard had met Susan Sontag and, together with Iain Sinclair, set out on a psychographically melancholic walk.  Of course, this walk would avoid the bourgeois avenues or the restaurants used by the ruling class. It would take place around a territory inhabited by people from the economically disadvantaged fringes, where there is some hope of a way out of this projected society of accumulation of titles, money and power; where we are bombarded with the idea that we are all responsible for the state of things.

"A sad, frightened time" by Michael Ackerman, is the world in motion where everyone questions the origin of the causes. 

Discussing what we would like to be a certain and free future, away from the latest social and natural disasters, we dream of changing the habit of cross-consumption, which has been denouncing emotional exhaustion. More and more involved in the clear desire to express discontent with the way of life imposed since the second modernity, in which everything was expected to be difficult, today we are facing the consequences of a crude, blind classicism, which is deprived of a sense of acceptance and sharing of the differences. Nowadays, we can only believe in a future whose flagship is looking into the mirror and walking towards others and towards change.

Estefânia r.

Michael Ackerman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967. At the age of 7 his family emigrated to New York City, where he grew up and began photographing at the age of 18. He has exhibited internationally and published 4 books, including End Time City, by Robert Delpire, which won the Prix Nadar, 1999. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Biliothèque National, France among others, as well as in many private collections.

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