From My Neck is Thinner than a Hair : A History of the Car Bomb (2002) An artist friend of mine had been raving about Walid Raad for awhile, but it was still a shock to stumble on it in the C/O exhibition on photojournalism and terrorism yesterday. The pieces are confrontational in an ideological way — who are you, really, they demand, and why do you believe you’re something else? Raad, who’s Lebanese-American, has had a wild ride both as an individual artist and as part of his tongue-in-cheek “collective” of one, The Atlas Group. At this point it’s not really possible to call him a photographer or painter or anything else, he’s fighting with ideas, not forms. We need more people like that in the art world. Hell, we need more people like that in the world. Copyright The Atlas Group/Walid Raad

From My Neck is Thinner than a Hair : A History of the Car Bomb (2002)

An artist friend of mine had been raving about Walid Raad for awhile, but it was still a shock to stumble on it in the C/O exhibition on photojournalism and terrorism yesterday. The pieces are confrontational in an ideological way — who are you, really, they demand, and why do you believe you’re something else?

Raad, who’s Lebanese-American, has had a wild ride both as an individual artist and as part of his tongue-in-cheek “collective” of one, The Atlas Group. At this point it’s not really possible to call him a photographer or painter or anything else, he’s fighting with ideas, not forms. We need more people like that in the art world. Hell, we need more people like that in the world.

Copyright The Atlas Group/Walid Raad