Looking at Ackerman’s work, we feel that Ballard encountered Susan Sontag, and together with Iain Sinclair, they began their journeys in a psychographic and melancholic manner.
Of course, this journey avoided bourgeois avenues and restaurants frequented by the ruling class. Instead, it took place in areas inhabited by economically marginalized people, where there is a glimmer of hope for escape from this society focused on the accumulation of titles, money, and power, which bombards us with the idea that we are all responsible for the state of things.
From Michael Ackerman comes a world in motion where everyone questions the origins of causes.
Discussing the future we wish were certain and free of prejudice, we dream of changing the pervasive consumption habits that have been exhausting us emotionally.
Today, all we have left is to believe in the future, to look in the mirror, and to walk towards others and towards change.
