• Obtuse Archive homepage, blurred chrome wordmark over a dark portrait with a sculptural claw-like hand
  • Conversation page with interview text and two soft-focus photographs of curled-up figures on cream
  • Interview layout with a portrait of a figure in a pink dress and plush headpiece outside an apartment block
  • Two stacked portraits of a figure in an orange star-shaped collar and sunglasses, framed like film stills
  • Landing view with the chrome wordmark over a black-and-white photo of a nude figure bending in a doorway
  • Obtuse Archive index, a staggered grid of visual essays and conversations with cover images and bold titles The index: visual essays and conversations in a staggered grid.
  • Large typographic pull quote about silk between gown photographs and two columns of interview text Pull quotes at poster scale between the photographs.
  • Visual essay page with an oversized quote and three studio portraits in black, white and sheer garments
  • Film-framed photograph of a figure with spiky pale hair standing beside a white horse on black
  • Conversation page pairing interview text with three dance photographs, one playing as an inline video One of the 25 media components: text, photographs and an inline video.
  • Article footer with large previous and next titles and the circular horse-and-figure emblem
  • Article cover with a collaged vintage strongman in knitted limbs under a bold white headline
  • Bold uppercase quote set above a full-bleed red photograph of a silhouetted head
  • Gallery photograph of a weathered green cabinet, edged by a vertical distorted Obtuse Archive wordmark
  • Archive grid of essay and conversation covers with white headlines over dark, saturated imagery
  • Two framed photos of a white star-shaped sculpture with yellow hair strands and a pink spiked brush
  • Online gallery material study pairing bicycle chains looped on wire with a deer antler on white The online gallery: a material study.

Obtuse Archive

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Website for Obtuse Archive, a cultural archive of artistic, spatial and material practice.

The archive moves slowly. It puts process before outcome and keeps what refuses to disappear. We turned that into an editorial site for conversations, visual essays and an online gallery.

Headlines are set large, like posters. 25 media components let each publication find its own composition, so an image can interrupt the text, sit beside it or work against it, and the archive still reads as one.

Credits

  • Web design & development – alāsu.works
  • Graphic design & logo – Hagen Tanneberger

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