“Medium of Exchange” is an urgent publication that exposes the oil industry’s entanglement in global networks of violence, corruption, and abuse. The 13 historic member nations in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) represent an extension of the ongoing photographic series by Soleimani of the same name, which uses genres of art (camp, punk, street, kitsch) and living (masculinity, BDSM, food) to bring to light the corrupt relationships of OPEC oil ministers and western government officials. The portrait…Read More
