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Alexandre da Cunha
His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs. Alexandre da Cunha reinvents found objects in surprising ways that combine the material characteristics of Arte Povera with the concerns and techniques of painting. Da Cunha’s work often features flags—either as a found material per se or as a constructed form—that reflect the artist’s interest in issues of nationality, governmental politics, allegiance, and culture.
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Alexandre da Cunha
Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture. It directly engages with the readymade, a subject that Alexandre de Cunha takes up throughout his practice, often inflecting it with a tropical, and South American–inspired materiality and painterly style that could potentially come across as a stereotype. Here, da Cunha transforms the component parts into a composition that highlights often-overlooked materials of artistic production and cultural mass-production.
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Alexandre da Cunha
In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag. Where the printed surface of the towel originally served to enliven this commodity, here the pattern—now stretched and re-presented—suddenly refers to abstract painting’s promises of transcendence. And its crisply painted shape pulls the printed colors into the rectangularity of the canvas and, as da Cunha notes, the graphic iconicity of flags.
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Alexandre da Cunha
The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes. Here, da Cunha overlays thick bars of color (blue, green, and red) on photographs of the ocean at sunset with surfers in floating on the horizon. The solid colors contrast with the fading colors reflected in the sunset, and the tilted orientation suggests a familiar California beach scene.
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Voluspa Jarpa
To make Minimal Secret (2012), Jarpa created sculptures based on pages of declassified CIA information about the United States’ involvement in Chile. The cutouts in the acrylic represent the content that was blacked out when the pages were released to the public. For Jarpa, that so much content from these documents was deleted before declassification is symptomatic of hysterical behavior, which, in Freudian psychoanalysis, results from the inability to deal with trauma.
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Alexis Smith
Iron Sorrows (1990) brings together what are for Alexis Smith common motifs and materials such as scavenged and repurposed metal, and street signage. Iron is one of nature’s most abundant metals. Smith, a philosopher of human detritus and poetic associations, presents it in this work as simultaneously everywhere yet paradoxically forgotten, lost in the heaps of refuse that fill junkyards and vacant lots.
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Alexis Smith
In 8 Ball Surfboard (1995),Alexis Smith combines her long-term interests in California culture and conceptual assemblage. The surfboard, an emblem of Southern California, emblazoned with the image of an eight-ball, references numerous tropes and clichés of American popular culture, specifically subcultures related to pool halls, surfing, and beaches. Indeed, this model-scale surfboard may be a future pop-culture relic, referencing a particular surfer or era of board design.
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Hong Hao
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s. The series includes 37 prints to date, each of which resemble pages of an ancient open cartography book. In this series, the artist reflects on the authoritative influence of ancient books that shape dominant understandings of the world.
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Võ An Khánh
In Extra Curriculum Political Science Class 7/1972 , a group of women walk bare-foot and single file towards Dat Mui Mangrove in Ca Mau Province to attend ‘political science class’. These women wear headdress to protect their identities because they are spies placed strategically in the South by the Viet Cong. These classes of the ‘National Liberation Front for Southern Vietnam’ took place in the mangrove swamp in makeshift wooden huts where they would learn more of the political points of view of their forces and the changes in military situations across the country.
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Jinoos Taghizadeh
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Letter I Never Wrote is one of the most powerful series of Jinoos Taghizadeh. This is a series of stamps reflecting on variety of issues that the artist finds them important and critical to be discussed and seen by the public, which is also hidden and not talked enough by the Iranian government. From extremely political issues such as the chain murderers of intellectuals and politicians in Iran to environmental changes and archeological decadence of historical heritage, Taghizadeh is using one of the most popular form of circulation for information and communication to put these issues on top of them.
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Mona Marzouk
Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure. The courtroom as a space for the implementation of justice and of legal argumentation, but also through which different affective forces, some hegemonic and others marginalized, battle each other out in their respective quests for acknowledgment, accountability, and retribution. The work was produced at a time during which several popular revolts, such as in Egypt, seemed to have effectively been hijacked by reactionary forces, resulting in the violent dismissal of collective demands for emancipation, including through sham trials and wrongful convictions criminalizing activists, journalists, and protesters.
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Mona Marzouk
Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure. The courtroom as a space for the implementation of justice and of legal argumentation, but also through which different affective forces, some hegemonic and others marginalized, battle each other out in their respective quests for acknowledgment, accountability, and retribution. The work was produced at a time during which several popular revolts, such as in Egypt, seemed to have effectively been hijacked by reactionary forces, resulting in the violent dismissal of collective demands for emancipation, including through sham trials and wrongful convictions criminalizing activists, journalists, and protesters.
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Mateo Lopez
With Roca Carbón (Charcoal Rock, 2012) and Roca Grafito ( Graphite Rock , 2012), López plays with our relationship to inert and unremarkable objects such as rocks. Traces of art history reverberate through the sculptures; their mediums reflect traditional materials for drawing and sketching, and the simplicity of their forms gesture toward minimalism. But López dislocates these common objects from their ordinary utility by replicating their component parts in paper, graphite, and charcoal, thus drawing attention to mechanisms of representation and translation.
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Mateo Lopez
With Roca Carbon ( Charcoal Rock , 2012) and Roca Grafito ( Graphite Rock , 2012), López plays with our relationship to inert and unremarkable objects such as rocks. Traces of art history reverberate through the sculptures; their mediums reflect traditional materials for drawing and sketching, and the simplicity of their forms gesture toward minimalism. But López dislocates these common objects from their ordinary utility by replicating their component parts in paper, graphite, and charcoal, thus drawing attention to mechanisms of representation and translation.
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Ceal Floyer
NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist. The “billboard sign,” like a ready-made, plays with the different meanings of the title, literally and abstractly. The repetition of the sign, as it has used in Minimal and Conceptual art, fills the space.
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Arabella Campbell
In Gradation (2011), nine raspberries lined up on a lichen-dotted rock progress from left to right, dark to light, plump and juicy to not-yet-ripe. Through a curatorial act of collection and arrangement, Campbell alchemizes discrete instances of color, fabricating a gradient. Viewed alone, each berry would be unremarkable.
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Oscar Tuazon
Oscar Tuazon‘s sculptural oeuvre is situated at the border of art, architecture and technology. Engaging different methods of construction, he frequently uses wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping as materials to create his structures and installations. Tuazon’s works have roots in minimalism, conceptualism, and architecture, and have a direct relationship with both the site in which they are presented, as well as with their viewer, often through physical engagement.
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Santiago Borja
Cosmic Tautology I and II are two textile pieces representative of Santiago Borja’s practice and long-standing interest in disrupting universalist assumptions of minimalism by connecting them with other, non-Western or esoteric references. They were hand-woven in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, and are composed of nine squares, the middle one left unwoven. Their composition is based on Red Square, White Letters (1962) by Sol Lewit, but they also take cues from works like Black Series II by Frank Stella.
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Jean-Luc Moulène
Head Box by J ean-Luc Moulène i s not the representation of a space but a real space that remains in the domain of sculpture which the artist develops in parallel with his photographic practice. Created for an exhibition in Kitakyushu in Japan, it is painted green, a color that symbolizes life and creation in Japanese culture. Even though we are confronted with a hollow presence, this is above all a space to lodge a body in the vertical posture of the living.
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Cameron Rowland
Rowland’s minimal installations require a focus not on the objects themselves, but on the conditions of their creation, use, and distribution. Who controls the services that contemporary citizens take for granted—like power, water, heat? Who makes these objects that deliver these services?
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Moe Satt
These photographs document the hand and facial gestures in Moe Satt’s performance F n’ F (Face & Fingers) . Whistling and wearing minimal clothing within a bare gallery space, Moe Satt performed a choreographed sequence of gestures based upon those he observed on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar. Each photograph is simple, showing only the artist’s face and hands with a title and caption that describes the meaning of the documented gesture.
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Tomoko Yoneda
Yoneda’s Japanese House (2010) series of photographs depicts buildings constructed in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation, between 1895 and 1945. Yoneda focuses both on the original Japanese features of the houses and on details that have been altered since the end of the occupation. The yet-to-be acknowledged history of the occupation of Taiwan and other East Asian countries by Japan during World War II is subtly disclosed in these pictures.
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Yee I-Lann
Sarcastically titled to call attention to the problematic notions underlying colonialism, this photograph shows hundreds of Native Malaysians seated quietly behind one of their colonial oppressors. The artwork belongs to Yee’s series Picturing Power (2013) that deals with the destabilizing impacts of neo-colonialism and globalization on Southeast Asia’s history. Yee approaches the aesthetics and politics of the ethnographic gaze with both irony and humanity, challenging the modes of seeing inherent to the British colonization of Malaysia.
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Yuyan Wang
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro-events from ‘satisfying videos’ that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through layers of appropriation; referencing trance and minimal music in the process. The work addresses a desire for groundless waves, blended with today’s inexorable entropy of information societies.
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Jordan Ann Craig
Something To Do With Being Held by Jordan Ann Craig is inspired by a Cheyenne bead bag. Intrigued by the two shades of blue used for the source object (a deep dusty blue and a bold vivid cobalt blue) the artist replicated these shades in her painting. Craig then added in her own colors, including the pink-orange hues, to achieve a bold but soft quality about the work, as she states that she intended the work to convey vulnerability.
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Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff’s A. P. series of prints investigates how objects are “constructed” at the level of the image. For each composite photograph, Shirreff fabricates two sculptural forms from what appear to be metal or plaster, although the precise materials are unidentified. Her sculptures resemble miniature architectural models or renderings of buildings as-yet-to-be fully conceptualized, both elemental and elegant in their use of sharp angles and clean lines.
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John McCracken
Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot. The arrows and directional lines suggest movement, but the forms they point to intertwine, prohibiting a straightforward reading. The shapes are as illustrative as a Rorschach inkblot; in their confounding, simple indeterminacy, they depict nothing and everything at once.
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Andrea Fraser
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The year 2016 is organized like a telephone book; the data corresponding to the contributions are classified in alphabetical order by the name of the donor. With this database as well as other types of information, the 900-page book presents a material representation of the scale of the cross over between cultural philanthropy and the financing of political campaigns in America. It also provides an unprecedented resource for discovering the political leaning of the museum sector.
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Judy Chicago
Domes #1 represents a significant moment in Chicago’s career when her art began to change from a New York-influenced Abstract Expressionist style to one that reflected the pop-inflected art being made in Los Angeles. By 1968, the year she began creating Domes , the twenty-nine-year-old artist had moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA, and was part of a generation of artists whose work was characterized by of the masculine overtones of Southern California’s flourishing car culture. Inspired by new technologies in the auto manufacturing, these “Finish Fetish” artists appropriated industrial materials such as car paint or lacquer to create artwork with pristine finishes.
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Chulayarnnon Siriphol
The single-channel video Myth of Modernity opens on historical representations of the universe in Thai Buddhist places of worship –pagodas, palaces and spirit houses. Denoting three cosmological worlds, the colored religious illustrations and ornate monuments are slowly replaced by images of anti-Yingluck protesters during the 2013-2014 Thai political crisis. Over the masses, a flying neon pyramid –the light sculpture Myth of Modernity – echoes the popular simplification of worship architecture into geometrical shapes.
Akram Zaatari
- location: Sayda, Al-Lubnan
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: Lebanese
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
Marion Scemama is a French photographer and filmmaker...
Alexandre da Cunha
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Brazilian
- home town: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bani Abidi
Bani Abidi’s practice deals heavily with political and cultural relations between India and Pakistan; she has a personal interest in this, as she lives and works in both New Delhi and Karachi...
Jinoos Taghizadeh
Jinoos Taghizadeh uses a variety of media including painting, collage, video and performance and deals with the problematic construction of collective identities in contemporary Iran....
Alexis Smith
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1949
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Los Angeles, California
Humberto Diaz
Context is everything when it comes to the work of Humberto Diaz...
Mona Marzouk
Mona Marzouk is an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in a keen sense for architecture...
Andrea Bowers
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1965
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Wilmington, Ohio
Mateo Lopez
- location: Bogota, Colombia
- year born: 1978
- gender: male
- nationality: Colombian
- home town: Bogota, Colombia
Adrian Villar Rojas
- year born: 1980
- gender: male
- nationality: Argentinean
Yael Bartana
- location: ‘Afula, Yisra'el
- year born: 1970
- gender: female
- nationality: Israeli
Brian Tripp
Brian D...
Gao Mingyan
Gao Mingyan produces video based-works that examine the political and epistemological violence of our contemporary moment...
Eric Baudelaire
Currently based in Paris, Franco-American artist Eric Baudelaire has developed an oeuvre primarily composed of film, but which also includes photography, silkscreen prints, performance, publications and installations...
Pu Yingwei
Working as an artist, writer and curator, Pu Yingwei’s practice addresses key issues of our contemporary world linked to collective memory, personal history, utopia, identity, and geopolitics...
Hong Hao
Spanning photography, painting, installation, as well as behavior and performance art, Hong Hao’s artistic exploration is informed by the many cultural, political, and economic shifts in his lifetime...
Tomoko Yoneda
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1965
- gender: male
- nationality: Japanese
- home town: Akashi-city, Japan
Haegue Yang
- location: Berlin, Germany & Seoul, South Korea
- year born: 1971
- gender: female
- nationality: Korean
- home town: Seoul, South Korea
Santiago Borja
Santiago Borja’s work explores improbable connections between different thought systems, thus emphasizing the cannibalistic nature of modernism, and its inherently esoteric, yet seemingly “rational”, character...
Gabriel Borba Filho
Gabriel Borba Filho is an important actor in the Brazilian art scene during the 1960s and ‘70s...
Tadasu Takamine
Tadasu Takamine is one of the most controversial, thought provoking, and irreverent media, video and installation artist working in Japan...
Voluspa Jarpa
Voluspa Jarpa’s work is based upon a meticulous analysis of political, historical, and social documents from Chile and other Latin American countries, which she uses to develop a reflection on the concept of memory...
Yao Jui-Chung
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Taiwanese
- home town: Taipei, Taiwan
Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin studied fine art at Yale University returning to Europe in the mid-1960s and becoming one of the key figures in the first generation of British conceptual artists...
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Closely associated with the film scene in Thailand, Chulayarnnon Siriphol has also developed a singular approach to film and image making as a visual artist...
Shilpa Gupta
- location: Mumbai, India
- year born: 1976
- gender: female
- nationality: Indian
- home town: Mumbai, India
Jonas Staal
Jonas Staal ‘s work includes interventions in public spaces, exhibitions, lectures and publications...
Willie Doherty
- location: Derrybrien, Éire
- year born: 1959
- gender: male
- nationality: Irish
Enrique Ramirez
- year born: 1979
- gender: male
- nationality: Chilean
- home town: Santiago, Chile
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about 11 months ago (02/12/2024)
Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due Annabel Keenan Feb 12, 2024 9:44AM Portrait of Sarah Grilo by Lisl Steiner...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
Review: Glenn Kaino’s ‘Walking with a Tiger’ at Pace Gallery | Observer Installation view of ‘Glenn Kaino: Walking with a Tiger’ at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
Following a brutal and ongoing coup in 2021, artists from the country attempt to make sense of a troubling new political reality....
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about 11 months ago (02/06/2024)
Ai Weiwei criticises ‘fragile’ state of Western democracy following Sky News interview Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Artists news Ai Weiwei criticises ‘fragile’ state of Western democracy following Sky News interview The dissident artist argues that restrictions manifest more subtly in Europe and the US Gareth Harris 6 February 2024 Share Ai tells The Art Newspaper that the idea that "the West embodied greater freedom of speech and press" is an illusion Courtesy skynews.com The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has gone into more detail about his views on censorship in the West after telling Sky News in an interview at the weekend that “in universities, in the media, political sector, everywhere—you cannot talk about the truth”...
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about 12 months ago (01/24/2024)
Pace Gallery announces global representation of Paul Thek’s estate...
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about 13 months ago (12/17/2023)
Anselm’s Sweeping Vision Obscures the Political Skip to content Anselm , dir...
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about 13 months ago (12/16/2023)
Baroque Minimalism: A Conversation With Muller Van Severen - IGNANT Name Muller Van Severen Images Pieter Peulen Words Rosie Flanagan Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen met in 2001 at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent...
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about 13 months ago (12/13/2023)
Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Skip to content “The Maze and Snares of Minimalism” (1993) by Carl Andre in front of Alfred Jensen’s “The World As It Really Is” (1977), on view in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents works by groundbreaking conceptual artists of the 1960s and ‘70s alongside more recent acquisitions in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum ...
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about 13 months ago (12/09/2023)
Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Fair’s stands largely remain neutral despite multiple hot-topic issues in the world today Gareth Harris and Tim Schneider 9 December 2023 Share Julie Buffalohead’s Our Bodies Our Choice , in the Meridians section, references wide-ranging injustices against Native Americans Photo: Liliana Mora Should art engage with politics or offer an escape from politics? This is the question dealers, artists and collectors have tended to face in the run-up to Art Basel in Miami Beach from its very first outing...
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about 13 months ago (12/09/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - Aesthetica Art Prize: Picturing the Landscape Aesthetica Art Prize: Picturing the Landscape Humans have been inspired by nature for millenia...
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about 13 months ago (12/01/2023)
Review: ‘Glory of the World: Color Field Painting (1950s to 1983)’ | Observer Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention...
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about 14 months ago (11/16/2023)
An expansive archive illustrates the role of women in shaping over a century of the country's political and public life....
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about 15 months ago (10/09/2023)
BOMB Magazine | Jack Pierson Interviewed Necessary (Required) Cookies that the site cannot function properly without...
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about 18 months ago (07/26/2023)
Pantsula, a South African dance, emerged in townships as a form of political repression - France 24 Skip to main content Pantsula, a South African dance, emerged in townships as a form of political repression Issued on: 26/07/2023 - 19:17 Modified: 01/08/2023 - 11:42 01:29 Video by: Camille NEDELEC Dance company Via Katlehong is keeping South Africa's pantsula heritage alive...
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about 20 months ago (05/23/2023)
Rhea Dillon | Tate Britain A new body of sculptures by Rhea Dillon that consider the formation of British and Caribbean identities Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain brings together new and existing sculptures as a conceptual fragmentation of a Black woman’s body...
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about 26 months ago (11/28/2022)
Criticism and Tears: The Emotional is Political in the Marcos State | ArtsEquator Skip to content When a film taps on emotions to distort historical facts, criticism that uses a rational, adversarial voice, above the work and the audiences who enjoy it may fail to dislodge the emotive power of the work’s narrative...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Among the artists he collected were John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, stanley brouwn, Donald Judd, On Kawara, and Joseph Kosuth....
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about 35 months ago (03/03/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2022 By Chu May Paing (1,532 words, 6-minute read) Witness (noun) 1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal 3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place 4 : one who has personal knowledge of something 5 : something serving as evidence or proof – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I think about the word “witness” in English, I feel a sense of passivity: one being interpellated into seeing or being in the presence of an event unfolding in proximity of their own body (or mind)...
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about 35 months ago (03/01/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Skip to content A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar...
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about 42 months ago (07/29/2021)
The frenemy’s handshake: The Singapore Trilogy as political theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 29, 2021 By Clarissa Oon (2,650 words, 8-minute read) My phone vibrated one night, with a notification that Singapore political party Workers’ Party (WP) was premiering a live video on Instagram...
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about 68 months ago (06/04/2019)
“Invisible Habitudes”: The Personal Goes Political Goes Global | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng June 4, 2019 By Nabilah Said (621 words, three-minute read) On a Monday afternoon in Goodman Arts Centre, I am watching a group of dancers working...
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about 71 months ago (03/06/2019)
By Elsa Lim (1090 words, four-minute read) It was a lazy Sunday afternoon in early December, and the Visitor......
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about 72 months ago (01/22/2019)
Seen in New York, January 2019 | Painters' Table Skip to main content Seen in New York, January 2019 Submitted by Paul Corio on January 21, 2019...
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about 73 months ago (01/06/2019)
Sex Object Lesson: Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner | Painters' Table Skip to main content Sex Object Lesson: Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Submitted by Margaret McCann on January 6, 2019...
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about 75 months ago (11/12/2018)
Open Calls and Job Opportunities: November 2018 (Singapore) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar November 12, 2018 Call for Applications for Southeast Asian Choreolab 2019 We invite emerging contemporary dance choreographers (or performance artists or physical theatre creators) from Southeast Asia to apply for the Southeast Asian Choreolab 2019...
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about 75 months ago (11/04/2018)
Foolishness and Enlightenment in “Lear is Dead” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 5, 2018 By Casidhe Ng (1,200 words, six-minute read) “You are a madman, and we are but fools,” the ensemble resounds...
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about 76 months ago (09/25/2018)
Cartoonist Zunar on his sedition charges & fight for political reform (via Star2) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 25, 2018 It’s a Saturday afternoon at a major bookstore in the Gardens Mall in Kuala Lumpur...
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about 94 months ago (04/16/2017)
BIEFF #7 | Winners and Highlights - The re:art BIEFF #7 | Winners and Highlights Created under the token of the ancient Mayan greeting In Lak’ech Ala K’in (You Are Another Me), the 7th edition of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF , held between March 28th and April 2nd, 2017, was a success and consisted of outstanding films raising debate around the notion of border and proposing “a denial of barriers – those between individuals, but also those of the cinematic language.” BIEFF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION | WINNERS AND FAVORITES This year, the international competition focused on five major themes – You Are Another Me, The Politics of the Body, Searching for Transcendence, The Alchemy of the Frame, Cutting the Cord...
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1950-1959
Akram Zaatari
1950“Other photographers used to send me negatives of cross-eyed people, asking me to retouch them...
Akram Zaatari
1950“In the 1980s I started using coloured paper backdrops, one of which was yellow...
Akram Zaatari
1950“While taking the picture it was challenging to make the boys sit properly without moving...
Akram Zaatari
1956“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
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1960-1969
Akram Zaatari
1960“When you position your hand on someone’s shoulder, your shoulders become straight and horizontal...
Akram Zaatari
1966“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
Judy Chicago
1969Domes #1 represents a significant moment in Chicago’s career when her art began to change from a New York-influenced Abstract Expressionist style to one that reflected the pop-inflected art being made in Los Angeles...
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1970-1979
Akram Zaatari
1970“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
Akram Zaatari
1972“The two men were relatives and both were in the Lebanese Army.” Hashem El Madani...
Gabriel Borba Filho
1975Gabriel Borba Filho was aware of what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic, and Untitled (Nos) is linked to both the social and political climates in Brazil and Spain during the Franco period...
Cecilia Vicuña
Drawing & Print
1977(Drawing & Print) Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design...
Antonio Ole
1978Antonio Ole’s Rhythm of N’gola Rhythms (1978), is a film about the struggle for Angolan political independence...
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1980-1989
Martha Araújo
1982In Habito/Habitante , the suspended material renders the wall a prison and the participant a prisoner...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 1980s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
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1990-1999
Alexis Smith
1990Iron Sorrows (1990) brings together what are for Alexis Smith common motifs and materials such as scavenged and repurposed metal, and street signage...
Alexis Smith
1995In 8 Ball Surfboard (1995),Alexis Smith combines her long-term interests in California culture and conceptual assemblage...
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2000-2009
Hong Hao
Drawing & Print
2000(Drawing & Print) Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s...
Humberto Diaz
2002The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...
Harrell Fletcher
2005The American War , which takes its title from the Vietnamese term for what Americans call the Vietnam War, has toured the United States extensively with the goal of presenting a Vietnamese perspective of that history...
Colectivo Tercerunquinto
2006Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey is a public sculpture on the periphery of the city of Monterrey...
Yael Bartana
2006Yael Bartana’s video work A Declaration was shot in southern Tel Aviv, on the visible border between that city and Jaffa...
Ceal Floyer
2007NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist...
Yael Bartana
2007Yael Bartana received great international attention for the trilogy series And Europe Will be Stunned (2007 – 2011)...
Jinoos Taghizadeh
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) Letter I Never Wrote is one of the most powerful series of Jinoos Taghizadeh...
Jonas Staal
2008Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”...
Nicoline van Harskamp
2008The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters...
Shilpa Gupta
2008The three monkeys in Don’t See, Don’t Hear, Don’t Speak are a recurring motif in Gupta’s work and refer to the Japanese pictorial maxim of the “three wise monkeys” in which Mizaru covers his eyes to “see no evil,” Kikazaru covers his ears to “hear no evil,” and Iwazaru covers his mouth to “speak no evil.” For the various performative and photographic works that continue this investigation and critique of the political environment, Gupta stages children and adults holding their own or each other’s eyes, mouths and ears...
Gao Mingyan
2008The television monitors utilized in the video installation Come On (2008) ostensibly serve as playback devices for a multi-channel installation of clips from blockbuster films as part of a larger commentary of mass entertainment and its relation to consumer cultures...
Gao Mingyan
2008In City Golf (2008) the artist Gao Mingyan films himself playing 18 “holes” of golf throughout the mega-city of Shanghai...
Charwei Tsai
2008Charwai Tsai’s photograph documents her Hermit Crab Project installation upon the construction site of gallery Sora in Tokyo...
Bani Abidi
2008The threshold in contemporary Pakistan between the security of private life and the increasingly violent and unpredictable public sphere is represented in Abidi’s 2009 series Karachi ...
Bani Abidi
2008The threshold in contemporary Pakistan between the security of private life and the increasingly violent and unpredictable public sphere is represented in Abidi’s 2009 series Karachi ...
Jean-Luc Moulène
2009Head Box by J ean-Luc Moulène i s not the representation of a space but a real space that remains in the domain of sculpture which the artist develops in parallel with his photographic practice...
Jao Chia-En
200930 Proposals of Flag explores the relationships between signs, meanings, aesthetics, and nations...
Humberto Diaz
2009The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
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2010-2019
Alexandre da Cunha
2010In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag...
Võ An Khánh
2010In Extra Curriculum Political Science Class 7/1972 , a group of women walk bare-foot and single file towards Dat Mui Mangrove in Ca Mau Province to attend ‘political science class’...
Tomoko Yoneda
2010Yoneda’s Japanese House (2010) series of photographs depicts buildings constructed in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation, between 1895 and 1945...
Andrea Bowers
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Haegue Yang
2010In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...
Adrian Villar Rojas
2010The two drawings in the Kadist Collection are part of a larger series entitled Las Mariposas Eternas (The Eternal Butterflies)...
Alexandre da Cunha
2011The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes...
Arabella Campbell
2011In Gradation (2011), nine raspberries lined up on a lichen-dotted rock progress from left to right, dark to light, plump and juicy to not-yet-ripe...
Pablo Rasgado
2011Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...
Karl Haendel
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Haendel’s series Knights (2011) is a set of impeccably drafted, nine-foot-tall pencil drawings depicting full suits of armor...
Voluspa Jarpa
2012To make Minimal Secret (2012), Jarpa created sculptures based on pages of declassified CIA information about the United States’ involvement in Chile...
Mateo Lopez
2012With Roca Carbón (Charcoal Rock, 2012) and Roca Grafito ( Graphite Rock , 2012), López plays with our relationship to inert and unremarkable objects such as rocks...
Mateo Lopez
2012With Roca Carbon ( Charcoal Rock , 2012) and Roca Grafito ( Graphite Rock , 2012), López plays with our relationship to inert and unremarkable objects such as rocks...
Santiago Borja
2012Cosmic Tautology I and II are two textile pieces representative of Santiago Borja’s practice and long-standing interest in disrupting universalist assumptions of minimalism by connecting them with other, non-Western or esoteric references...
Vincent Leong
2012The photograph Exquisite Eco Living is part of a larger series titled Executive Properties in which he digitally manipulated the images to insert iconic buildings of Kuala Lumpur in the view of derelict spaces also found in the city...
Adrian Villar Rojas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Based on historical prophecies and fantasy, the artist creates apocalyptic scenarios that posit an enigmatic world plagued by social, political, and environmental upheaval...
Rabih Mroué
2012The Pixelated Revolution is a lecture-performance by artist Rabih Mroué about the use of mobile phones during the Syrian revolution...
Bani Abidi
2012The perceived effortlessness of power, projecting above experiences of labored subordination is examined in Death at a 30 Degree Angle by Bani Abidi, which funnels this projection of image through the studio of Ram Sutar, renowned in India for his monumental statues of political figures, generally from the post-independence generation...
Tadasu Takamine
2012The video work Japan Syndrome is a continuation of his lines of inquiry, taking post-Fukushima Japan as a case study...
Asier Mendizabal
2012Rotation presents the image of a crowd, a re-appropriation of 19th or beginning of 20th century photographs published in newspapers and magazines...
Juan Carlos Alom
2012In Amantes (Lovers) Juan Carlos points his lens at his own environment, his underground (literally) studio in Havana...
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
2012This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...
Ícaro Lira
2012Icaro Lira has been developing the project “Museum of the Foreigner” since 2015, in which he recounts the trajectories of populations inside Brazil, from the north to the big cities of the south...
Yee I-Lann
2013Sarcastically titled to call attention to the problematic notions underlying colonialism, this photograph shows hundreds of Native Malaysians seated quietly behind one of their colonial oppressors...
Fernanda Gomes
2013For this floor based work, Gomes has taken two lengths of bamboo and tied them together using linen thread...
Yao Jui-Chung
2013Long Long Live (2013) takes the viewer to the setting of the Oasis Villa on Green Island, once a reform and re-education prison to house political prisoners during Taiwan’s martial law period...
Burak Delier
2013Burak Delier’s sculpture Homage to Balotelli’s Missed Trick is a symbol of resistance to the demand for success and performance...
Regina José Galindo
2013In 2012, former Guatemalan President José Efran Ros Montt was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity; Regina José Galindo’s video Tierra is a chilling reimagining of the atrocities recounted during his trial...
Shahab Fotouhi
2013Shahab Fotouhi’s photographic series Establishing Shot; Interior, Night – Exterior, Day; without Antagonist and Extra consists of four C-prints that at first glance would appear to be travel posters for Iran, in that each features a beautifully shot image of an Iranian waterfall...
Mona Marzouk
2014Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure...
Mona Marzouk
2014Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure...
Oscar Tuazon
2014Oscar Tuazon‘s sculptural oeuvre is situated at the border of art, architecture and technology...
Cameron Rowland
2014Rowland’s minimal installations require a focus not on the objects themselves, but on the conditions of their creation, use, and distribution...
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
2014The single-channel video Myth of Modernity opens on historical representations of the universe in Thai Buddhist places of worship –pagodas, palaces and spirit houses...
Jesús Hdez-Güero
2014Minutos de odio contra sí mismo (Minutes of hate against itself) is a simple and powerful work about the political situation in Venezuela, replacing the stars on the flag with bullet holes...
Michael Armitage
2015In “And so it is” shows the image of a faceless man before a microphone, ready to deliver an important message...
Andrea Bowers
2015Bowers’ Radical Hospitality (2015) is a sculptural contradiction: its red and blue neon letters proclaim the words of the title, signaling openness and generosity, while the barbed wires that encircle the words give another message entirely...
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano
2015There is no there by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano is a black and white looped video with sound, in conjunction with a live performance...
Enrique Ramirez
2017Ramirez’s The International Sail is the fifth in a series that features an upside-down worn out, mended and fragmented boat sail...
Eric Baudelaire
2017Baudelaire’s latest film, Also known as Jihadi (2017) tells the story of a young French boy from Parisian suburbs and his assumed journey to the Al-Nusra front in Syria to join ISIS and fight Bashar al-Assad’s regime...
Mounira Al Solh
2017In 2011, Mounira Al Solh began a series of drawings that documented her meetings and conversations with displaced Syrian refugees in Lebanon and various European countries...
Sky Hopinka
2017Dislocation Blues by Sky Hopinka is a portrait of the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in South Dakota...
Karan Shrestha
2017After the decade-long conflict (1996-2006) that ended with Nepal becoming a Federal Democratic Republic, political unrest and weak governance continued to mark the country’s future as daily life repeatedly witnessed ruptures...
Dale Harding
2018Dale Harding’s installation Body of Objects consists of eleven sculptural works that the artist based on imagery found at sandstone sites across Carnarvon Gorge in Central Queensland...
Jordan Ann Craig
2019Something To Do With Being Held by Jordan Ann Craig is inspired by a Cheyenne bead bag...
Teresa Burga
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In her new series titled Ninas Peruanas Cusquenas , Teresa Burga depicts young indigenous women from Peru’s Andean region, dressed in traditional garments...
Tenzing Rigdol
2019Unhealed by Tenzing Rigdol is a photograph of the artist’s back tattooed with a map of Tibet with the dates of important political events...
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2020-2029
Andrea Fraser
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) The year 2016 is organized like a telephone book; the data corresponding to the contributions are classified in alphabetical order by the name of the donor...
Pu Yingwei
2020ChinaCapital: Dream, Hot Land, Interstellar Colonization by Pu Yingwei addresses a complicated phenomena of intertwined influences from different political powers, capital forces, and ideologies in the reality of China...
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Paloma Contreras Lomas sometimes incorporates large scale drawing into her practice...
Sofía Córdova
2021Set some time in the future, Sofía Córdova’s multi-channel film installation GUILLOTINÆ Wanna Cry, Act Yellow: Break Room imagines a public that worships pop stars and revolutionary leaders equally...
Yuyan Wang
2022One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception...
Richard Bell
2022For Richard Bell, art is not simply a vehicle through which to represent and convey political content...
