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Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies. As in a periodic table, animals and objects are combined with humans (male or female), providing a rational framework for the irrational products of human imagination. A Cartesian matrix such as this must follow certain rules.
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Pedro Reyes
In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste. There is a missing organ in our social metabolism which would work as a stomach or intestines. The Recyclone is a device made of plastic containers that fit into each other.
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Frida Orupabo
The archival images used by Frida Orupabo in her collages trace stereotyped representations of race, gender, sexuality and violence. Her works are developed through a process of decontextualization of such imagery, layering and recomposing, playing with new narratives. In this work she focuses on memory and what might be triggered in the viewer.
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Alejandro Marré
Typical Weapons is a series of sculptural interventions where Alejandro Marre transforms traditional Guatemalan craft objects usually sold as souvenirs into weapons. Wooden flutes, hacky sacks, and musical instruments are woven with rope to appear as nunchucks, slingshots, and other forms of armament. Designed to be exhibited as objects from an archaeological museum, the previously innocuous representations of Guatemalan popular culture acquire darker meanings as they come to symbolize the brutality and extreme violence that now mark the country.
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Teresa Margolles
Stretching between San Pedro and the beach in Altata, Sinaloa, there is a 40 km road where there are three invisible borders controlled by rivalling armed groups. There is a price to pay for crossing these territories. This series of 21 photographs by Teresa Margolles, titled 40 Km , resemble snapshots of peaceful lands, but also bear witness to the reality lived by the local people in this area.
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Luis Pazos
La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion. The subjects wear masks made of white cardboard. The series suggests the idea of a reality hidden under the appearances of the power in place that denies violence to citizens.
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Doreen Lynette Garner
Known But to God: The Dug Up, Dissected, and Disposed for the Sake of Medicine by Doreen Lynnette Garner is a small, suspended sculpture composed of glass, silicone, steel, epoxy putty, pearls, Swarovski crystals, and whiskey. At once attractive and repulsive, the sculpture combines objects of adornment with what appears to be viscera. The sculpture’s curious delicacy evokes a ritualistic catharsis, in response to persistent forms of medical racial violence and objectification for Black people in America and around the world.
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Imran Qureshi
At first glance, This Day by Imran Qureshi appears to be an energetic, gestural painting reminiscent of Action Painting from the mid-20th century. But upon closer inspection, highly detailed floral elements reveal themselves amongst the bold red brushstrokes. The botanical motifs in Qureshi’s work represent life and regeneration while the red paint refers to death and mortality.
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Juan Capistran
The 10 $1 bills that make up From a Whisper to a Scream (2012) read like instructions in origami. From left to right, each bill is progressively folded up, step by step, into the shape of a gun. Both a scream and a whisper are capable of conveying the same content, if at drastically different decibels, the artist proposes.
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Li Liao
A Slap in Wuhan documents Li Liao’s performance in Wuhan, China on January 8, 2011. Li waits at the entrance of the Optical Valley walking street. An anonymous person who was recruited online approaches Li and slaps him in the face.
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Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn’s film, Western Wild … or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand , about the famed German author Karl May weaves together a mixture of stop motion animation, travelogue and biography that generates a kind of sensory wanderlust. Conflating past and present, the film investigates issues of identity and representation, as well as violence and war. The artist considers imagination as an invitation to dream, in order to disrupt the limitations of the everyday context and widen her viewers’ horizons.
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James T. Hong
Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program. T. Hong’s research is not only an effort to revisit a dark time that complicates certain histories, but more importantly an investigation of how violence is enacted in the name of rationality.
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American Artist
From suicides, to gang violence, to the epidemic abuse of force by police departments (predominantly against Black men), to school and mass shootings, there is perhaps no more urgent issue in the United States than gun control. The color blue is a proxy for both sadness, and a color that is emblematic of American law enforcement services. I Am Blue, 1 by American Artist is a sculpture that fuses a school desk with a ballistic shield.
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Kara Walker
In her masterpiece 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America , Walker unravels just that, the story of struggle, oppression, escape and the complexities of power dynamics in the history following slave trade in America. Her use of contour and silhouette accentuate emotion with rigor, she reduces the narrative to black and white as gruesome acts of sex and violence address trauma, fear and suffering through a majestic play of shadow and light.
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Wisrah Villefort
This video is a montage of documentary and virtual images found on the Internet. They all have a performative dimension with varying registers of violence. The title – Super Amuleto – refers to the lucky charm of a rabbit’s foot.
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Joaquín Segura
Pyre , an installation by Mexico City-based artist Joaquín Segura, addresses corruption, impunity, and the role that failed governments play in the normalization of violence. The work references mass disappearances at the hands of corrupt armed forces and paramilitary groups that have taken place in Mexico since the 1960s and significantly escalated over the last decade due to the War on Drugs. While the piece may be installed any number of ways, it is marked by the precision of its material content: 71 liters of gasoline, 23 used car tires, and 760 kilograms of wood.
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Christian Nyampeta
The film Sometimes It Was Beautiful by Christian Nyampeta poetically addresses the systemic conditions leading and emerging from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which had lasting and profound effects on Rwanda and neighbouring countries like Congo. The divergent opinions of the characters, as well as suggestive gestures, settings, and marks inscribed in the landscape highlight the different approaches in addressing the slow violence linked to the enduring impact of colonialism and imperialism, the pursuit of knowledge, and the conservation of heritage, culture, and object repatriation. Structured into six chapters, the film imagines a meeting between improbable friends and interlaces dialogues, with choreography of dancers, places and objects.
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Majd Abdel Hamid
Tadmur by artist Majd Abdel Hamid is influenced by a book by Mustafa Khalifa titled The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer , which details Khalifa’s imprisonment in the Assad ‘desert prison’ Tadmur. Khalifa’s compelling testimonial is now considered to have enlightened the Syrian public to the atrocities being committed in their country by the Assad regime and catalyzed a political resurgence in Syria. The prison was destroyed by ISIS in 2015 and though the initial reaction by the Syrian public was largely positive, the complete leveling of the prison erases the brutal experiences of the prisoners, many of whom died and those that survived.
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Arin Rungjang
246247596248914102516… And then there were none narrates a semi fictional account centered around the ambiguous history of the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, and on the aftermath of the 1973 demonstration of 400,000 people who marched against the military junta from Thammasat University to the monument. Built on archival and oral history, the story interweaves the personal with grand historical narratives to consider the complicated history behind the monument – symbolic of the unrest and violence that led to the Thammasat University massacre on October 6, 1976.
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Regina José Galindo
In 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. Tierra depicts the artist standing naked in a lush field that a bulldozer has broken up. The video references an incident in which innocent Guatemalans were brutally murdered and buried in a mass grave.
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Shay Arick
Part of a series of videos called LIFE, where Shay Arik videos that re-enact iconic journalistic photographs. As explained by the video’s title, the departure point for LIFE #1 is the iconic 1943 photograph published by Life magazine that captures Japanese officer Yasuno Chikao from the Imperial Japanese Navy as he raises his sword, seconds before publically beheading Australian war commando Leonard Siffleet in the shores of Papua New Guinea. In Arick’s restaging there are no onlookers in the scene, the only two figures represented are Chikao and Siffleet: the perpetrator and victim of this fatal act of violence.
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Diego Marcon
Monelle by Diego Marcon was filmed at night inside the infamous Casa del Fascio, the headquarters of the local Fascist Party in Como Italy, designed by Giuseppe Terragni under Mussolini’s rule. The building is immersed in darkness and it is initially difficult to recognize the iconic rationalist architecture, flashes of light illuminate languid adolescent girls sleeping amidst the space for just a few seconds at a time. Next to the bodies, strange humanoids are lurking, they are CGI-generated, but the human eye does not have enough time to register their artificiality, they materialize and disappear in a flash like ghosts.
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Ali Yass
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Now; 1992 is Ali Yass’s attempt to remake his childhood drawings, which were lost after he was forced to leave Iraq following the 2003 US occupation. The drawings are chimeric compositions of animated limbs, animal, human, and machine, that seem to hurl in all directions and mediums, unified as colorful figurations posed against blank backgrounds, rendering the curious characters suspended in time. This suspension materializes the artist’s view on violence and temporality, on which he has claimed: “I will not talk about war because it is from the past.
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Jumana Manna
Blue Elbow (Coude bleu) is made from plaster, burlap, lacquer, pigments and plastics. The materials related to the techniques of the sculpture or the painting but also others, which refer to commerce, to objects of consumption. The chair refers directly to the body as does the title of the work, Blue Elbow .
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Daniel Boyd
Daniel Boyd’s work WTEIA3 is part of a series of paintings that reference the stick charts used by indigenous communities on the Marshall Islands. These charts were made in order to navigate the Pacific ocean by canoe and thus crucially depict ocean swell patterns. These highly individualised maps were rarely intended for mass use but instead for memorising, and transmitting between the community, the maps were not taken to sea but instead memorised in advance.
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Yin-Ju Chen
One Universe, One God, One Nation was inspired by Hannah Arendt’s analysis of space exploration and by the astrological horoscope of Chinese political and military leader Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975). Chiang was born with the sun in Scorpio and at the Ninth House, moon in Aries, and ascendant in Capricorn, signifying an individual who is headstrong, intense, and persistent, with a desire for leadership. Yin-Ju juxtaposes images of outer space, war, and subservient masses, calling attention to how the dictator’s violence and charismatic power over the crowd was predicted by his particular astrology.
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Jorge de León
Jorge de León most well-known work was a radical gesture, and one of his earliest artworks: in his 2000 performance, The Circle, de León sewed his own mouth closed as a protest against the silencing of citizens in the face of social corruption. His Cristal series is more demure, but follows a similar theme. In these works, delicate, web-like lines emerge against dark backgrounds, creating orbs of negative space, pitch black.
Subas Tamang
Part of the Indigenous Tamsaling community in Nepal, Subas Tamang comes from a family of traditional stone carvers...
Wong Wai Yin
Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography...
Pedro Reyes
- location: Mexico City, Mexico
- year born: 1972
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Mexico City, Mexico
Yin-Ju Chen
- year born: 2011
- gender: female
- nationality: American & Taiwanese
Zanele Muholi
- year born: 1972
- gender: female
- nationality: South African
- home town: Umlazi, Durban, South Africa
Prabhakar Kamble
Prabhakar Kamble is an artist, curator, and cultural activist...
Kubra Khademi
Afghani artist Kubra Khademi uses her practice to explore her experiences as both a refugee and as a woman...
Gao Mingyan
Gao Mingyan produces video based-works that examine the political and epistemological violence of our contemporary moment...
Mohamed Bourouissa
Mohamed Bourouissa became known in the 2000s with a series of photographs on young people in the suburbs of Paris...
Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson (b...
Young Min Moon
Young Min Moon is a Korean American artist, curator, critic, and art historian, who migrated to the United States from South Korea as a teenager...
Nontawat Numbenchapol
Nontawat Numbenchapol is primarily known as a film director and television screenwriter, widely recognized for his documentary work...
Eric Dizambourg
Working primarily in painting and video, Eric Dizambourg merges the burlesque with the rustic, blurring the boundaries between reality and representation...
Reza Aramesh
Working across a wide range of materials and processes, Aramesh examines simultaneously the history of Western art and contemporary commentary on the politics and history of the Middle East, concocting a unique visual language to address the contemporary conditions of violence and bio-politics...
Imran Qureshi
Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s practice revives 16th century Mughal miniature painting...
Nikita Kadan
Trained in large-scale painting, Nikita Kadan’s artistic practice encompasses installation, graphics, painting, wall drawing, and urban postering, sometimes in collaboration with architects, human rights activists, and sociologists...
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla comprise the artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla...
Marwan Rechmaoui
- location: Bayrut, Al-Lubnan
- year born: 1964
- gender: male
- nationality: Lebanese
Gisela McDaniel
Chamorro artist Gisela McDaniel depicts Native American and mixed-race women from the USA’s former, as well as current, Pacific territories...
Huang Xiaopeng
Huang Xiaopeng is a video and installation artist...
Nandan Ghiya
Nandan Ghiya is an emerging whose practice explores the disjunction between various forms of image-based media...
Nguyen Thai Tuan
Nguyen Thai Tuan was born in 1965, he studied at the school of Fine Arts of Hue where he studied propaganda art, which he got bored of very quickly...
Tom Nicholson
Tom Nicholson is trained in drawing, a medium which he has used to think about the relationships between public actions and their traces, between propositions and monuments, and between writing and images...
Karrabing Film Collective
Karrabing Film Collective is an indigenous media group consisting of over 30 members, bringing together Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia’s Northern Territory...
Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopinka is from the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians...
Julien Creuzet
The work of Julien Creuzet reveals painful stories – both personal and political – making it impossible separate one from the other...
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Tuan Andrew Nguyen is an artist and filmmaker, one of the three founders of The Propeller Group created in 2006...
Indira Allegra
Indira Allegra uses text and textile production—a combined material they designate as a “text/ile”—to embody unseen forces like memory, haunting, grief, and emotions born from trauma...
Daniel Boyd
Daniel Boyd is an indigenous Australian Pacific artist, in his practice he combines references to both Aboriginal art and international contemporary art, displaying a strong political commitment...
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about 11 months ago (02/12/2024)
Tania Bruguera’s reading at Hamburger Bahnhof shut down after heated pro-Palestine protests Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Israel-Hamas war news Tania Bruguera’s reading at Hamburger Bahnhof shut down after heated pro-Palestine protests A statement from the museum says the incident involved activists using “hate speech” towards one of the readers and a museum director Gareth Harris 12 February 2024 Share Tania Bruguera invited artists, activists and members of the public, read from Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism © Estudio Bruguera / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia The artist and activist Tania Bruguera’s non-stop reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin was halted on Saturday (10 February) after pro-Palestine protestors disrupted the event...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
The Best Artist Presentations at Salón Acme Skip to main content By Maximilíano Durón Plus Icon Maximilíano Durón Senior Editor, ARTnews View All February 9, 2024 1:29pm The entrance to Salón Acme in a Porfiriato-era house in Mexico City's Colonia Juárez...
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about 11 months ago (02/09/2024)
New York governor seeks removal of problematic images of Native Americans Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news New York governor seeks removal of problematic images of Native Americans Kathy Hochul has proposed removing certain imagery from the state capitol in Albany Gareth Harris 9 February 2024 Share Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York Mark Getman Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has proposed removing depictions of Native Americans from New York’s State Capitol building in Albany...
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about 11 months ago (02/06/2024)
Art Collector Scott Lorinsky Resigns From Boards After Claims of Inciting Violence at Palestine Protest Skip to content Scott Lorinsky (© BFA 2024; photo by Zach Hilty/BFA.com) New York art collector Scott Lorinsky has stepped down from the boards of two arts organizations, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and Visual AIDS, as of Tuesday, February 6...
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about 12 months ago (01/07/2024)
Coco Fusco "Tomorrow, I will become an Island" KW Institute of Contemporary Art / Berlin | | Flash Art Flash Art uses cookies strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the website, for its legitimate interest to enhance your online experience and to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means...
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about 12 months ago (01/04/2024)
'Signs of the Times' Documents Two Decades of Protesting in Dallas - D Magazine Skip to content Menu Search One brand, four magazines...
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about 13 months ago (12/15/2023)
Markus Ohrn, Bye Bye Poland - Galeria Foksal Polski English GALERIA FOKSAL #Las Rzeczy Exhibitions Artists About gallery Contact Markus Öhrn Markus Ohrn, Bye Bye Poland December 15, 2023 Opening: December 15, at 18:00 – 22:00 On view from 15 December 2023 through 20 January 2024 curator: Martyna Stołpiec We are all entangled in the mechanisms of patriarchy...
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Artblog | Nose Bleed Chapter 10 Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Nose Bleed Chapter 10 By Derick Jones December 14, 2023 sponsored Nosebleed Chapter 10 27 panel comic entitled “Nosebleed Chapter 10” by Derick Jones....
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MARQUIS DE SADE by Charles Daniel McDonald – A Shaded View on Fashion ´ Sade: Freedom or Evil ´ is an exhibition that delves into the influence and reputation of the infamous French writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade , from whom the term ´sadism´ derives and it’s a journey not for the faint-hearted...
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about 13 months ago (12/08/2023)
Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire at Art Basel Miami Beach Skip to content Protesters installed a banner reading "Let Palestine Live" in front of Art Basel Miami...
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Art in Exile: Burmese Artists in Thailand | ArtsEquator Skip to content Burmese artists make art in exile in Thailand, finding refuge and showcasing cross-border solidarity for artistic freedom...
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about 39 months ago (10/08/2021)
Air Con: Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints October 8, 2021 By Dhinesha Karthigesu (1,330 words, 5-minute read) Who do you want to be when you grow up? At the end of the play AIR CON , the character William (Nick Davis) asks the character Asif (Ryan Lee Bhaskaran) this question....
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about 63 months ago (11/01/2019)
The architecture of patriarchy: The Professor by Faisal Tehrani | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 1, 2019 By Lily Jamaludin (1,650 words , 7-minute read) Trigger warning: Descriptions of sexual assault...
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about 64 months ago (10/08/2019)
The brutal examinations of "Constellation of Violence" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Hideto Maezawa October 8, 2019 By Patricia Tobin (561 words, 4-minute read) Constellation of Violence consists of a very simple setup: a giant screen on stage, a historian, two artists and a group of individuals...
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about 64 months ago (10/07/2019)
The Personal, the Humour and the Horror: Interview with Irwan Ahmett | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Hideto Maezawa October 7, 2019 By Patricia Tobin (1,140 words, 6-minute read) The concluding production of TPAM 2019 was Constellation of Violence , a lecture-performance by artist Irwan Ahmett, which focused on the culmination of the Cold War in Indonesia in 1965, from its lead-up to its aftermath...
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about 64 months ago (10/04/2019)
Say No To Droogs: Teater Ekamatra's "A Clockwork Orange" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Monospectrum Photography October 5, 2019 By Faezah Zulkifli (1,020 words, 4-minute read) “ORANG_” The wordplay in Teater Ekamatra’s A Clockwork Orange is no accident...
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about 67 months ago (07/18/2019)
Tender notes on violence in "A Notional History" by Five Arts Centre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 18, 2019 By Patricia Tobin ( 700 words, 5-minute read) It starts with a song...
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about 74 months ago (12/03/2018)
Weekly Picks: Indonesia (3 - 9 December 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do December 3, 2018 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and various cities in Indonesia from 3-9 December 2018 This week, you can catch many films under the 16 Film Festival at various cities in Indonesia...
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about 75 months ago (11/08/2018)
A History of Violence: The Sharp Edges of "Cerita Cinta" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Tuckys Photography November 8, 2018 By Nabilah Said (1000 words, four-minute read) The most powerful moment of akulah BIMBO SAKTI’s Cerita Cinta is the end...
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about 94 months ago (04/08/2017)
ICY and SOT | Interview - The re:art ICY and SOT | Interview In the midst of the many challenges we face today, art becomes a powerful voice...
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Luis Pazos
1971La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
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...
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Karen Lamassonne
1989Ventana indiscreta (Rear Window) by Karen Lamassonne takes its title from Hitchcock’s renowned 1954 classic...
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2000-2009
Dennis Adams
2002Observing the sky after 11 September 2001, Dennis Adams photographed elements which had been lifted by drafts and were floating above the city of New York...
Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela
2003In Beyond Guilt the two artists create a portrait of our generation in three parts...
Sue Williamson
2003In her 2003 series “Better Lives”, Sue Williamson explores stories of immigrants in search of a better life in a historically contentious South Africa...
Sue Williamson
2003In her 2003 series “Better Lives”, Sue Williamson explores stories of immigrants in search of a better life in a historically contentious South Africa...
Pavel Wolberg
2004A young settler girl, dressed in a bridal outfit for Purim, stands in a street in Hebron waiting, perhaps for her parents or other children to join her...
Nathalie Djurberg
2004Apparently Djurberg’s mother made a puppet theater and traveled around Göteborg performing during her childhood...
Pedro Reyes
2005In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste...
Kara Walker
2005In her masterpiece 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America , Walker unravels just that, the story of struggle, oppression, escape and the complexities of power dynamics in the history following slave trade in America...
Mario Garcia Torres
2005Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...
Alejandro Marré
2007Typical Weapons is a series of sculptural interventions where Alejandro Marre transforms traditional Guatemalan craft objects usually sold as souvenirs into weapons...
Piero Golia
2007Golia’s Untitled 3 is an installation in which a mechanical device is programmed to shoot clay pigeons that are thrown up in front of a white wall...
Jazmín López
2008Shot on 35mm in two simply framed shots, Jazmín López’s Juego Vivo captures children at play, mixing imagination, reality, innocence, and violence...
Wong Wai Yin
2008In this work the artist stages a humorously violent “intervention” against male-dominated cultures of art production in present-day China...
Nguyen Thai Tuan
2008In the “Black Paintings” series, although the human body is only suggested, it plays an important role...
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...
Mohamed Bourouissa
2009The film called Temps Mort (Dead Time or Time Out) presents an exchange of short video footage assembled into one final edit...
Fred Wilson
2009Fred Wilson’s flag paintings document the 20th century history of African people, indexing the period of liberation from colonialism...
Vandy Rattana
2009Vandy Rattana’s Bomb Ponds series was made following a transformative encounter with the craters left over from 2,756,941 tons of bombs dropped by U...
Mahmoud Khaled
2009CAMARADERIE is a precursor to and a blueprint for Mahmoud Khaled’s later forays into queer aesthetics and modes of visual representation...
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An-My LE
2010The print Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam (2010) features an Asian Buddhist monk and an American Navy Solider on board the Mercy ship –one of the two dedicated hospital ships of the United States Navy– sitting upright in their chairs and adopting the same posture...
Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-Kung
2010The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger begins with the sound of women’s voices describing histories of violence, of things repressed and silenced...
Eric Dizambourg
2010Like the film Le Mouton noir, this dimension is counterbalanced by a burlesque element...
Eric Dizambourg
2010Eric Dizambourg’s film presents a bucolic and ludicrous world used as a background for a character who is an actor as well as a performer...
Clarisse Hahn
2011Prisons is part of a series of videos, entitled Our Body is a Weapon , representing individuals who affirm the body as a place of political and social resistance...
Engel Leonardo
2011As with so many other colonized geographies, the ways in which violence has become a natural and expected component of Santo Domingo reflects the forced friendship between the beneficiaries and residues of Modernism...
Huang Xiaopeng
2011Four knives appearing as if thrown at the wall to alleviate frustration and boredom, form rhythmic shadows and markings of time above a translated phrase boldly printed in simplified Chinese and English...
Taiki Sakpisit
2011A Ripe Volcano , a collaboration with Yasuhiro Morinaga, revisits two sites of violence and aggression in Thailand’s recent past: The Rattanakosin Hotel, the site where the military troops captured and tortured the civilians, students and protestors who were hiding inside the hotel during the Black May of 1992; and Ratchadamnoen Stadium, a Roman amphitheater-style Muay Thai boxing arena, which was built in 1941-45 during the Second World War and since then has become the theatrical labyrinth for more acculturated and commercially “acceptable” displays of bloodshed...
Imran Qureshi
2011There was a tragedy in Sialkot, Punjab, in August 2010, when two adolescents were murdered by vigilantes who were apparently in connivance with the police...
Yin-Ju Chen
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) This work includes sketches for Extrastellar Evaluations , the project she produced at Kadist...
María Buenaventura
2011The Territory is not for sale is a process of reflection and research with people, thinkers and community leaders from Usme, a rural part of Bogotá on the tenuous verge of becoming urban...
Pedro Reyes
2012Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies...
Juan Capistran
2012The 10 $1 bills that make up From a Whisper to a Scream (2012) read like instructions in origami...
James T. Hong
2012Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program...
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
2012This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...
Dawoud Bey
2012On 15 September 1963 members of the Ku Klux Klan blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama up using dynamite...
Virlani Hallberg
2012In collaboration with psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Leon Tan, Receding Triangular Square explores traditional Chinese and Taiwanese modalities of psychological healing as alternatives to dominant Western psychiatric and therapeutic practices...
Nandan Ghiya
2012The Chair (2012) foregrounds media-based tensions between analog and digital imaging technologies as a means of challenging the continued circulation of visual ephemera from India’s colonial past...
Daniela Ortiz
2012In her work, Maids Room (2012) which is part of a series, Daniela Ortiz undertakes an architectural analysis of the houses belonging to the upper class of Lima...
Tom Nicholson
2012Tom Nicholson’s Comparative Monument (Palestine) engages a peculiar Australian monumental tradition: war monuments that bear the name “Palestine”...
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...
Shay Arick
2013Part of a series of videos called LIFE, where Shay Arik videos that re-enact iconic journalistic photographs...
Nikita Kadan
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Ukraine is under tension due to the politics of President lanoukovitch since 2010...
Nikita Kadan
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Ukraine is under tension due to the politics of President lanoukovitch since 2010...
Haig Aivazian
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) This work is part of an ongoing project that looks at international sports competitions as a revealing element of nationalistic aspirations which present contradictions...
Benvenuto Chavajay Gonzalez
2013Jardín (2013) refers to environmental destruction, specifically the preponderance of disposable plastics, as well as Medellín’s long history of dangerous conflict; it was once considered the most violent city in the world because of the drug trafficking there...
Teresa Margolles
2014Stretching between San Pedro and the beach in Altata, Sinaloa, there is a 40 km road where there are three invisible borders controlled by rivalling armed groups...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...
Sam Contis
2014Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression...
Sam Contis
2014Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression...
Jumana Manna
2015Blue Elbow (Coude bleu) is made from plaster, burlap, lacquer, pigments and plastics...
Jorge de León
2015Jorge de León most well-known work was a radical gesture, and one of his earliest artworks: in his 2000 performance, The Circle, de León sewed his own mouth closed as a protest against the silencing of citizens in the face of social corruption...
Christine Rebet
2015In the Soldier’s Head evokes the traumas of war through the prism of the hallucinations of a soldier...
Aslan Goisum
2015The video work Volga by Aslan Goisum begins with a sweeping field caught under a misty, gray sky...
Ibro Hasanovic
2015Note on Multitude is a chilling black-and-white short movie recorded with a single camera in Prishtina, Kosovo, in 2015...
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...
Joaquín Segura
2016Pyre , an installation by Mexico City-based artist Joaquín Segura, addresses corruption, impunity, and the role that failed governments play in the normalization of violence...
Reza Aramesh
2016The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory...
Reza Aramesh
2016The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory...
Chia-Wei Hsu
2016The final work in the Marshal Tie Jia series (of which Turtle Island is in the KADIST collection), Spirit Writing features the Marshal in conversation with Chia-Wei Hsu, by way of a ritual involving the Marshal’s divination chair...
Nohemí Pérez
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) A rich and isolated region, El Catatumbo is located near the border with Venezuela...
Danielle Dean
2016In 2003, Nike released a pair of red and black sneakers (the Dunk Low Pro SB ) that were marketed as “vampire” sneakers...
Yin-Ju Chen
2016Through a semi-fictional approach, Extrastellar Evaluations envisions a version of history in which alien inhabitants, the Lemurians, lived among humans under the guise of various renowned conceptual and minimal artists in the 1960s (Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, and James Turrell to name a few)...
Uriel Orlow
2016The series The Memory of Trees is specifically about trees, and what trees have witnessed in South Africa: for example, trees that were used as locations for slave trading, or trees that was during the anti-Apartheid struggle as a kind of identifier for a safe house for activists who were fleeing from security forces...
Didem Pekün
2016Of Dice and Men is a video diary-essay: in it, Didem Pekün’s daily life and political events are intertwined, just as they are in our individual realities...
Lutz Bacher
2016Sweet Jesus is a sound installation by Lutz Bacher that consists of a found recording of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice reciting biblical genealogy from Matthew, Book 1...
Doreen Lynette Garner
2017Known But to God: The Dug Up, Dissected, and Disposed for the Sake of Medicine by Doreen Lynnette Garner is a small, suspended sculpture composed of glass, silicone, steel, epoxy putty, pearls, Swarovski crystals, and whiskey...
Imran Qureshi
2017At first glance, This Day by Imran Qureshi appears to be an energetic, gestural painting reminiscent of Action Painting from the mid-20th century...
Martha Colburn
2017Martha Colburn’s film, Western Wild … or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand , about the famed German author Karl May weaves together a mixture of stop motion animation, travelogue and biography that generates a kind of sensory wanderlust...
Arin Rungjang
2017246247596248914102516… And then there were none narrates a semi fictional account centered around the ambiguous history of the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, and on the aftermath of the 1973 demonstration of 400,000 people who marched against the military junta from Thammasat University to the monument...
Diego Marcon
2017Monelle by Diego Marcon was filmed at night inside the infamous Casa del Fascio, the headquarters of the local Fascist Party in Como Italy, designed by Giuseppe Terragni under Mussolini’s rule...
Daniel Boyd
2017Daniel Boyd’s work WTEIA3 is part of a series of paintings that reference the stick charts used by indigenous communities on the Marshall Islands...
Diamond Stingily
2017Dad is Byron is an audio work produced in collaboration between Diamond Stingily and her father, the house musician Byron Stingily...
Santiago Yahuarcani
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) The series Castigos del caucho by Santiago Yahuarcani originates in the oral memory transmitted by the artist’s grandfather, who was a survivor of the Putumayo genocide where thousands of Indigenous people were annihilated and enslaved to extract rubber from the Amazon forest between 1879 and 1912...
Fredi Casco
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
2017The word Coyolxauhqui refers to femicide or the killing of women in rural Mexico on the basis of gender...
Lungiswa Gqunta
2017Feet Under Fire by Lungiswa Gqunta depicts the artist’s lower legs swinging in and out of frame, above a bed of charcoal...
Sky Hopinka
2017Dislocation Blues by Sky Hopinka is a portrait of the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in South Dakota...
Yao Qingmei
2017Satirizing an airport security checkpoint, The Ecdysiast – Molt (Body Inspection) by Yao Qingmei offers a comedic and critical inquiry into the logics underpinning collective control and surveillance culture...
Frida Orupabo
2018The archival images used by Frida Orupabo in her collages trace stereotyped representations of race, gender, sexuality and violence...
Christian Nyampeta
2018The film Sometimes It Was Beautiful by Christian Nyampeta poetically addresses the systemic conditions leading and emerging from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which had lasting and profound effects on Rwanda and neighbouring countries like Congo...
Jota Mombaça
2018The performance title A Gente Combinamos De Não Morrer (BANDEIRA #1) / Us Agreed Not To Die (FLAG #1) is taken from a short story by Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo, whose work addresses violence, resilience, and necropolitics with an Afro-diasporic lens...
Leila Weefur
2018Leila Weefur’s two-channel video installation Between Beauty & Horror focuses on the sensorial and somatic experiences that give Blackness a distinct and inherently racialized materiality...
Walead Beshty
2018Office Work by Walead Beshty consists of a partially deconstructed desktop monitor screen, cleanly speared through its center onto a metal pole...
Juan Brenner
2018The photographic series Tonatiuh (The Son of the Sun) by Juan Brenner is an in-depth visual study of current Guatemalan society from the perspective of miscegenation and the incalculable consequences of the Spanish conquest...
Indira Allegra
2018Open Casket IX is an installation by Indira Allegra that combines traditional materials of memorial—tombstones, mausoleums, and caskets—with contemporary expressions of grief...
Adrían Balseca
2018The project Grabador Fantasma (Phantom Recorder) consists of a communally constructed technological device in Sarayaku ancestral territory...
Chitra Ganesh
2018Silhouette in the Graveyard is part of a suite of animated videos by Chitra Ganesh titled The Scorpion Gesture ...
Yin-Ju Chen
2018Extrastellar Evaluations is a multimedia installation produced during Yin-Ju Chen’s residency at Kadist San Francisco in the spring of 2016...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Karrabing Film Collective
2018The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective is a surreal exploration of Western toxic contamination, capitalism, and human and non-human life...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History III by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History V by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Sheelasha Rajbhandari
2018Agony of the New Bed by Sheelasha Rajbhandari brings out the familiar yet often ignored reality of gender discrimination and taboos built within the construct of marriage...
American Artist
2019From suicides, to gang violence, to the epidemic abuse of force by police departments (predominantly against Black men), to school and mass shootings, there is perhaps no more urgent issue in the United States than gun control...
Majd Abdel Hamid
2019Tadmur by artist Majd Abdel Hamid is influenced by a book by Mustafa Khalifa titled The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer , which details Khalifa’s imprisonment in the Assad ‘desert prison’ Tadmur...
Ali Yass
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) Now; 1992 is Ali Yass’s attempt to remake his childhood drawings, which were lost after he was forced to leave Iraq following the 2003 US occupation...
Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) And words were whispered by Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a series of ten works on paper based on the lived experiences of Indian women taken to the Natal region of South Africa from the 1860s to the early 1900s to work in tea and sugarcane plantations during apartheid, which included servitude in its broadest and most sinister definition...
Ana María Millán
2019Interested in role-play and videogames, Ana María Millán developed workshops with different communities in order to create characters and scenarios for her animations, often in collaboration with a choreographer...
Maryam Hoseini
2019Secrets Between Her and Her Shadow 10 by Maryam Hoseini is from a series of paintings of the same title that are inspired by the story Layla and Majnun – an Arabic love story about Majnun, a 7th century Bedouin poet, and his lover, Layla...
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo
2019Resiliencia Tlacuache / Opossum Resilience by Naomi Ricón Gallardo is a fabulation in which four characters find themselves in temporalities that overlap Mesoamerican narratives about the creation of the world with the contemporary time of accumulation by dispossession...
Alicia Henry
2019Out of simple materials, Alicia Henry creates enigmatic, somewhat troubled characters, which reveal her interest in the complexities and the contradictions surrounding familial relationships...
Emmanuel van der Auwera
2019Emmanuel van der Auwera visited Miami at the end of 2017 and was working on a project relating to school shootings...
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Wisrah Villefort
2020This video is a montage of documentary and virtual images found on the Internet...
Sable Elyse Smith
2020Sable Elyse Smith’s Pivot III resembles playground equipment uselessly reconfigured...
Manuel Correa
2020Manuel Correa’s documentary Four Hundred Unquiet Graves is a powerful and vulnerable visual essay about the descendants of those who were disappeared during the Spanish Civil War from 1936–1939...
Ashmina Ranjit
2020While most of Ashmina Ranjit’s work has been large-scale installations, often immersive and site-specific, the series Hair Warp – Travel Through Strand of Universe is a brilliant concentration of both her beliefs and aesthetic...
rafa esparza
2020thanks for staying alive Fern.1994 by rafa esparza is from a body of work that pays homage to youth culture in the 90s...
Paloma Contreras Lomas
2020Paloma Contreras Lomas has frequently used animals as metaphors in her work...
Gisela McDaniel
2020Got Your Back by Gisela McDaniel depicts two women of color from different ethnic backgrounds who share similar violent experiences...
Dana Kavelina
2020Letter to a Turtledove by Dana Kavelina is a short film based on a poem written by the artist...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Study of History VI by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Hikaru Fujii
2020COVID-19 May 2020 by Hikaru Fujii was filmed during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Caroline Déodat
2020Landslides is a cinematographic essay/poem by Caroline Déodat in which fictional images are the result of research into the memories of a Mauritian dance born during colonial slavery, the Sega...
Natsuko Uchino
2020Squid Currency is a series of 13 non-calibrated double-sided tin coins made using a casting technique dating back to Neolithic times where cuttlebones (squid bones) were carved by hand and then used as a mold...
Edgar Calel
2020The point of departure for Xar – Sueño de obsidiana by Edgar Calel is a poem that the artist wrote in Maya Kaqchikel...
Pichet Piaklin
2021The Wings by Pichet Piaklin is a creation story of fragility, where the desire for freedom is mired in blood red by the inculcation of faith and violence...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Masiniya Matawali by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Marwan Rechmaoui
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Throughout his career, Marwan Rechmaoui has maintained a drawing practice...
Marwan Rechmaoui
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Throughout his career, Marwan Rechmaoui has maintained a drawing practice...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Leyla Stevens
2021Leyla Stevens’s two-channel video Patiwangi, the death of fragrance is an immersive video installation that addresses erased histories...
Prabhakar Kamble
2022To produce the series of sculptures collectively titled Utarand , Prabhakar Kamble relocated his studio to Kolhapur, Maharashtra, near the village where he was born into a family of daily wage earners...
Prabhakar Kamble
2022To produce the series of sculptures collectively titled Utarand , Prabhakar Kamble relocated his studio to Kolhapur, Maharashtra, near the village where he was born into a family of daily wage earners...
Pratchaya Phinthong
2022Pratchaya Phinthong’s work has explored the mineral and karmic economies of Laos, a country that shares language, beliefs, and a long border with his own native region of Isaan (Northeast Thailand)...
Prabhakar Kamble
2022To produce the series of sculptures collectively titled Utarand , Prabhakar Kamble relocated his studio to Kolhapur, Maharashtra, near the village where he was born into a family of daily wage earners...
Risham Syed
2022Risham Syed discovered a box of woven Chinese silk panels that was her mother’s most prized possession...
Caspar Heinemann
2022Glorie #7 by Caspar Heinemann is made from cardboard boxes in which the artist received deliveries at home during lockdown, as well as other materials that he uses in an improvisatory way...
Joshua Serafin
2022Through the language of dance and choreography, Void by Joshua Serafin narrates the creation of a new God, the birth of a futuristic deity...
Young Min Moon
2022Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa...
Young Min Moon
2022Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa ...
