‘Breathless in Glowing Air’ Captures Beauty Before It’s Lost

Summary

• Indie publisher Pomegranate Press is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Breathless in Glowing Air, a massive group exhibition staged at London’s 10 14 gallery
• On view through September 19, the exhibition presents work by 62 photographers documenting the overlooked beauty of the everyday

Pomegranate Press is ringing in double digits and to celebrate, the indie imprint has mounted Breathless in Glowing Air, a 100-piece look back on a decade-long devotion to contemporary image-making.

With no singular theme confining the curation, the group show captures the moments that might otherwise slip through the cracks. It anchors itself in the paradoxically enduring beauty of life at its most fleeting: the touch shared between two lovers that lasts a lifetime, roadside dust kicked up into something sublime; a strip mall, kissed by a rainbow, transformed into a kind of stateside paradise.

With contributions from 62 names hailing from photography’s new vanguard – Pia Paulina Guilmoth, Juan Brenner, Adam Powell, Jerry Hsu, among the sort – each image reads as an ode to the exquisitely unresolved, characteristic of the press’s ongoing fascination with the “boundless suggestion of possibility.”

“All I can hope for is that my curatorial approach reads as honest, because genuinely, all Pomegranate has ever been is an extension of the heart,” curator and founder Jesse Feinman told Hypeart. “It’s very imperfect, incomplete, inconclusive, but I’ve yet to stop trying, which maybe is all that needs to be said.”

The Pomegranate story begins with Feinman, a then 20-year-old in Florida, driven simply by a desire to make and share zine with his close-knit network. “The simple, gentle ideas about friendship and beauty – the original catalysts for Pom – have remained mostly unchanged,” Feinman added. The one-man, now New York-based operation has kept on its limited-edition publications, adding a ton of merch and ephemera into the mix, and has since carved out a space on the global stage, though even ten years on, its punk-rooted core of accessibility and curiosity is just as intact as ever.

“All Pomegranate has ever been is an extension of the heart. It’s a seemingly never-ending love letter that just happens to exist as a platform for ideas to mutate and grow, and hopefully, come out the other end a little kinder, more evocative, less cynical.”

Breathless in Glowing Air is now on view at 1014 gallery in London through September 19. Read on for the full list of photographers on view.

Featured artists:

Brian Karlsson
Morganne Boulden
Caroline Tompkins
Heather Sten
Oji Haynes
Matthew Genitempo
Carlos Jaramillo
Julian Klincewicz
Lucia Bell-Epstein
Will Matsuda
Lisa Sorgini
Andrés Vargas
Andy Jackson
Jess Tran
Andres Sunjuan
Peyton Fulford
David Brandon Geeting
Marcus Maddox
Samone Zena Kildane
Steven Molina Contreras
Scott Rossi
Sinna Nasseri
Marisa Chafetz
Eric Chakeen
Daniel Jack Lyons
Christian Michael Filardo
Lina Sun Park
Henry Archer
Grade Solomon
Jingyu Lin
Daniel Dorsa
Jerry Hsu
Pia Paulina Guilmoth
Rosie Marks
Kyle Berger
Daniel Arnold
Mikayla Jean Miller
Christ Llerins
Tamara Black Chapman
Kirk Lisaj
Daniel Rampulla
Matt Eich
Jack Bool
Tyrone Williams
Allan Sallas
Rose Marie Cromwell
Chris Maggio
Willem Verbeeck
Sarah Walker
Juan Brenner
Andrés Ríos
Jacob Ogden
Melissa Alcena
Henry O. Head
Meghan Marin
Brad Ogbonna
Alana Celii
Stephanie Stamatis
Clark Hodgin
Enrique Escandell
William Mullan
Adam Powell

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