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Andrew Grassie
In 2008, Grassie was invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to document the transformation of some of its spaces. The artist chose to depict the space before and after, thus creating the series titled “After the Archive Collections Room.” This group of paintings displays a space locked into time with its scaffolding and broom exposed, depicted just before an exhibition on a collection of archives.
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Dineo Seshee Bopape
Interested in the collection of object and their potential to evoke various emotional reactions in the audience, Bopape’s “Why do you call me when you know I can’t answer the phone” is an invitation into the limitless netherworld of the unsaid and unspoken. Exploring the metaphysical landscape of secrets, lies and psychosexual ambivalence, this work is an attempt to create a site for contemplation. The video ventures to provoke a rhythmic trance through transporting the mind into a distant illusionary world constructed by vignettes of fractured spaces.
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Takeshi Murata
Takeshi Murata developed an interest in space inspired by his architect parents. OM Rider features the artist’s characteristic absurdist humor and aesthetics–a mélange of highly attuned lighting and composition (in homage to Ken Price), with retro modeling and minimalist, almost antiseptic spaces.
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Vincent Leong
The 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. This images reflect on a dystopian future of the country, perhaps drawing parallel with the political changes in Malaysia.
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Christoph Draeger
In his performative action Subterranean Doomsday Vendor , Draeger positions himself in the subway system of Mexico City, as part of the common occurrence of bootleg media vendors. His contribution lies in dissemination of prophecy as he tests the public’s reactions to the types of content and media which can be circulated in such common spaces.
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Mungo Thomson
In Thomson’s Untitled (TIME) , every front cover of TIME magazine is sequentially projected to scale at thirty frames per second. In a way, this work both examines the construction of history and the history of the influential magazine, which was founded in 1923. In addition to the play on “time”—one of Thomson’s ongoing obsessions—this piece highlights and continues the artist’s encyclopedic impulse, also seen in The White Album (2008), to record the history of the spaces he inhabits.
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Enar de Dios Rodríguez
Ecotone by Enar de Dios Rodríguez is a video work presented in six chapters, each beginning and ending with a one-sided telephone dialog with an informal, friendly and conversational tone, that leads quickly into complex philosophical subjects. The first chapter is an introduction, and the last is an epilogue, and both employ interfaces (a smartphone screen, and an optical illusion, respectively) to invite the viewer to make conceptual connections across the chapters. An “ecotone” is a region of transition between two biological communities.
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Adrian Wong
Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion) is part of a series drawn from architectural objects that mark the boundary of public and private spaces Wong encountered while strolling in Hong Kong. Intrigued by the accidental preservation of historical building material by renovations and rebuilding, Wong began paying attention to the experience conveyed by layered forms accreted to affect the visual historicity of a space. The geometric forms in the piece are welded together as a composite replica of a metal grate from a children’s playground next to Wong’s studio, a security grate door from his apartment complex, and the latticework that holds an air conditioner from an electronic store, and a front grate from an elementary school on his bus route.
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John Baldessari
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The voids in Baldessari’s painted photographs are simultaneously positive and negative spaces, both additive and subtractive. In Person with Pillow: Desire, Lust, Fate , a woman’s facial expression is obscured by such void, leaving only her posture to suggest her emotional state. The two images stacked above the woman can be read as comic-style thought bubbles, intimating that she has lust, desire, and fate on her mind.
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Tammy Rae Carland
Carland’s series of large-format photographs Lesbian Beds (2002) depicts beds that have been recently vacated. Shot from directly above, they are lavish views of very private spaces. The artist plays to her viewers’ voyeuristic impulses, inviting us to look, but then denying us the opportunity to study the figures to whom the sheets belong, so that the rumpled covers become like anthropomorphic stand-ins inviting empathic projection.
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Heman Chong
The work Calendars is composed of 1001 images of deserted public areas in Singapore printed on pages of a calendar set from the year of 2020 until 2096. Yet Chong photographed these public spaces (shopping centers, museums, MRT stations and schools) between 2004 and 2010. Calendars continues Hong’s conceptual investigation of the intersections between time, space and situation.
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Lu Chunsheng
A mesmerizing experience of a vaguely familiar yet remote world, History of Chemistry I follows a group of men as they wander from somewhere beyond the edge of the sea through a vast landscape to an abandoned steel factory. Using long shots and atypical settings, Lu Chunsheng enigmatically refers to a distant history while conveying the sense of dislocation wrought by successive stages of modernization. The combination of elaborate landscape shots from the suburbs of Shanghai and Lu’s signature style of spare and minimally crafted acting offers a surreal view of human behavior in spaces marked by the hulking remnants of China’s extraordinary development.
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Haig Aivazian
For the exhibition 1440 sunsets per 24 hours at KADIST Paris in 2017, Haig Aivazian presented a sprawling installation, which sought to enact various instances of the deployment of light and darkness within public space and sports, reflecting on the double-edged abilities of lighting systems to expose, highlight or dissimulate subjects. For the installtion 1,2,3 soleil ! the space was structured like a material index, posing limbs and skins from stadiums and public spaces —namely floodlights, electric poles and asphalt— alongside abstract drawings inspired by policing and sporting data visualization iconography.
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Chanell Stone
Natura Negra , which translates to “Black Nature”, is a black-and-white photographic series by Chanell Stone that explores the connection between the Black body and nature within man-made environments. The series features a compilation of environmental portraits staged in urban “forests” that explore the notion of “holding space” within one’s immediate environment. Each image depicts an effort to reclaim and reconnect with the earth, even in spaces of compartmentalized nature like backyard gardens, flora intended as urban beautification, and lush public spaces.
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Marc Nagtzaam
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Nagtzaam’s medium is drawing and his repertory of forms varies from abstract hard-edge and wall drawing to the reproduction of written material that he collects from art magazines. The artist uses abstract architectural elements that he reproduces on the wall in which he inserts drawings, elements from photographs and drawings of texts collected from art magazines. The repetition, control and imperfection of the movements create a tension, a particular vibration in his geometrical drawings and in the drawings of texts.
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James Webb
Referencing psychology, philosophy, and spiritualism, A series of personal questions addressed to a Hikimawashi kappa traveling coat by James Webb is an ongoing series in which the artist poses spoken questions to objects via a speaker installed near the object on display. The questions are addressed to the objects as if they were sentient beings able to respond. Each question is left hanging, unanswered for approximately 10 seconds before the next question is posed.
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Carolyn Drake
Megan and Hazel Sue at Creekmore House by Carolyn Drake is from a series of works titled Knit Club . For this project, Drake collaborated with an enigmatic group of women in Mississippi who loosely call themselves “Knit Club”. The subject matter of this photograph centers on the relationship between the girl and doll in the painting, and the woman and girl in the photograph.
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Jarrett Key
Jarrett Key’s practice combines several modes of production into a single frame, incorporating sculpture, painting, and performance. Dancing Free I , painted in wet cement, like a fresco, is part of a current series of paintings titled Leaving the City , which depicts Black people they know in lush, pastoral landscapes. Raised in rural Alabama, Key’s series grew out of a few experiments conducted with visitors to their studio.
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Yuki Kimura
Kastura (2012) is an installation consisting of 24 black-and-white photographs of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto bequeathed by Kimura’s grandfather; free-standing structures on which they are hung; and ornamental plants. The photographs appear to have been taken in late 1950s soon after tours of the villa were first offered to the public. Then, as today, visitors were led by a guide and could only follow a designated route.
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Renee Rhodes
The artist writes about her work: “There is an endless desire to know what we look like from outer space and many of us have evolved into a species that exists across the disorienting spaces and timeframes of virtuality. Within my current work, dance and simple movement scores act as a language for simultaneously collecting, mapping and producing volumes of information and knowledge. Moving makes a map and performing is observation.
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Tina Modotti
The Italian photographer Tina Modotti is known for her documentation of the mural movement in Mexico. She had a keen eye for architectural composition, and captured eloquent details using a delicate platinum print process. In 1929 she was deported from Mexico because of her involvement in the Communist party and went to Europe.
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Mika Tajima
Mika Tajima’s Pranayama sculptures are built from carved wood and chromed Jacuzzi jets and are presented as artefacts. The title refers to the control of the breath, ‘prana’ in Ayurvedic practice, as the regulation of the vital life force. According to the artist, the sculptures, mediating between two spaces, serve “as membrane, portal or filter between the immediate and the beyond.
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Li Shuang
ÆTHER (Poor Objects) by Li Shuang builds on the artist’s consideration of the interplay between physical and digital spaces. Through a kaleidoscopic video collage, Li examines the complexities of personal subjectivity within an increasingly immersive and omnipresent online culture. Among disparate imagery that includes extra-terrestrial simulations, dizzying hordes of birds, animated figures trapped in dystopian virtual spaces, and real-life abandoned places, the video references the Chinese creation myth of Nuwa, a goddess who uses her own body to repair the sky.
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Jiang Pengyi
Unregistered City is a series of eight photographs depicting different scenes of a vacant, apparently post-apocalyptic city: Some are covered by dust and others are submerged by water. Yet, ambiguous lights blink from buildings and yachts still sail on the water, and further observation reveals these structures to be miniatures manipulated by the artist through Photoshop and other postproduction image tools. The model city’s surroundings are themselves real abandoned spaces, perhaps an empty room, a wait-to-be demolished building, or a discarded bathtub.
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Nina Könnemann
For many years, Nina Könnemann has placed a camera before a billboard situated in the suburb Neukoln in Berlin. The silent film that exposes the both banal and paradoxical passages of time and space of the passers by highlights the transformation of public space. The surface of exhibition—the billboard—becomes a wall behind which the fascination of the artwork concentrates.
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James Collins
These two large format untitled paintings by James Collins feature the artist’s hallmark technique, which transforms abstraction into an optical illusion that creates dimension, space, and mass. These particular paintings expand on the optical illusion referred to as a moiré pattern. Moiré (or fringe patterns as they are also called) are known in mathematics, physics, and art as a type of interference pattern that can be produced when a partially opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern.
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Sharon Lockhart
Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U. S. naval shipbuilding company—in Maine. Gary Gilpatrick, Insulator (2008) belongs to a group of portrait-like photographs of the shipyard’s workers lunchboxes. Created over the period of a year, Lockhart’s film and accompanying still photographs are intended as an exploration of the social spaces inside this kind of workplace.
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Sharon Lockhart
Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor, through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U. S. naval shipbuilding company—in Maine. Stanley “Tom” Durrell, Tinsmith (2008) belongs to a group of portrait-like photographs of the shipyard’s workers lunchboxes. Created over the period of a year, Lockhart’s film and accompanying still photographs are intended as an exploration of the social spaces inside this kind of workplace.
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Tessa Mars
In this untitled acrylic painting, Tessa Mars explores the long-lasting effects of colonialism on the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, particularly in terms of female vulnerability and resilience. Drawing on her interest in retelling stories of her native country, and confronting the past and the present, Mars portrays her cultural essence and heritage by imagining spiritual spaces that connect people and land across time. With a pictorial practice that highlights pastel colors, the divinisation of the figures on the canvas and the spiritual elements within the composition ultimately enhance the narrative of her Caribbean ancestry while conflating the distinctions between autobiographical and historical events.
Charlotte Moth
Charlotte Moth has been constituting an image bank since 1999...
Lisa Oppenheim
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1975
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: New York, New York
Zhou Tao
Artist Zhou Tao has a diverse and varied practice, and notably, he denies the existence of any singular or real narrative or space...
Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement...
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen employs a formally rigorous approach to creating multi-layered VR environments that engage with the contemporary issue of extinction...
Colectivo Tercerunquinto
Colectivo Tercerunquinto develops work related to the urban, the boundaries between public and private space...
Mithu Sen
Mithu Sen’s writing is central to her practice, as a poet from West Bengal, a region of great Indian literary history, poetic and visual tropes giving ground to her challenge of semiotics...
Sharon Lockhart
- year born: 1964
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Norwood, Massachusetts
Daniela Ortiz
In order to reveal and critique hegemonic structures of power, Daniela Ortiz constructs visual narratives that examine concepts such as nationality, racialization, and social class...
Andrew Grassie
- location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: British
Laura Gannon
Laura Gannon works across a range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture and video...
Jarrett Key
Jarrett Key’s work addresses their concerns about the state of their freedom in America...
Hong-Kai Wang
Wang is an artist working primarily with sound...
Oded Hirsch
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: Israeli
- home town: Kibbutz Afikim, Israel
Lu Chunsheng
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Changchun, Jilin province, China
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Haroon Gunn-Salie (b...
Pablo Accinelli
- year born: 1983
- gender: male
- nationality: Argentinian
Charles Gaines
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1944
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Charleston, South Carolina
Luciano Figueiredo
Brazilian artist Luciano Figueiredo works with color, form, volume, and light in his exquisite wall-bound compositions...
Mahmoud Khaled
Mahmoud Khaled works primarily with painting, installation, video, and text...
Ximena Garrido Lecca
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1980
- gender: female
- nationality: Peruvian
- home town: Lima, Peru
Zhu Changquan
Zhu Changquan engages in artistic activities through analyzing everyday life...
Tessa Mars
Tessa Mars delves into Haitian history, her primary source of inspiration, to unveil a colourful and provocative universe that she wishes to reclaim...
Cheryl Donegan
Cheryl Doneg an is best known for her performance and video work s that deal primarily with id eas of sex, gender , and the ways in which the female body is represented both in art and more broadly across popular culture...
Sung Hwan Kim
In his practice, Sung Hwan Kim assumes the role of director, editor, performer, composer, narrator, and poet...
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Linguists, semiologists, and graphic designers by training, Angela Detanico and Raphaël Lain consider the use of graphic signs in society...
Taloi Havini
From the Nakas clan, Hakö people, interdisciplinary artist Taloi Havini was raised in Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville...
John Baldessari
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1931
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: National City, California
Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925 in Beirut and died in Paris on November 14, 2021...
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about 11 months ago (02/08/2024)
A cultural manifesto to breathe new life into our dying high streets | Regeneration | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Free Your Mind, an immersive performance with stage design by Es Devlin, at Aviva Studios, Manchester last year...
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about 11 months ago (02/05/2024)
Recent growth in Singapore in private art spaces and exhibitions show its art market, while still small, is adding a layer that will be crucial to attaining its goal of being a major regional art hub....
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about 13 months ago (12/14/2023)
Liu Chuang "Lithium Lake and Island of Polyphony" Antenna Space / Shanghai | | 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 13 months ago (12/11/2023)
Modern Art Oxford Announces Major Redesign for 2024 - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 11 December 2023 Share — Oxford, UK: Modern Art Oxford is working with RIBA award-winning David Kohn Architects on a £1.2 million redesign of its ground and lower-ground floor spaces...
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about 14 months ago (11/03/2023)
Artist Akeem Smith on bringing Jamaican dancehall culture out of the shadows - arts24 Skip to main content Artist Akeem Smith on bringing Jamaican dancehall culture out of the shadows Issued on: 03/11/2023 - 15:44 11:25 arts24 © FRANCE 24 By: Solène CLAUSSE | Marion CHAVAL | Magali FAURE | Clémence DELFAURE | Alison SARGENT | Loïc CHALAVON | Sonia PATRICELLI Akeem Smith grew up between Brooklyn, New York and Kingston, Jamaica, where his aunt and grandmother were figures of the city's dancehall culture...
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about 25 months ago (12/08/2022)
Building Practice: Arts Spaces in Malaysia | ArtsEquator Skip to content The arts ecosystems in many parts of Southeast Asia are under-resourced...
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about 25 months ago (12/01/2022)
France is hardly immune to the private museum phenomenon...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Globally significant and first-of-their-kind art sites are making their debut across the globe this year....
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Danish Collector Jens Faurschou Inaugurates New Outpost in Brooklyn - via The Art Newspaper...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
A Soon-to-Open Private Museum in Chinaâs Shunde District Could Offer a New Model for Arts Spaces in the Country - via ARTnews...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Private spaces throughout the country are uniting to host a joint show in the face of government funding cuts...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Performance Exchange will show work this weekend by artists including Helen Cammock, Abbas Zahedi and Tim Etchells in collaboration with ten commercial spaces...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
London’s Tate Modern encouraged visitors to browse through its digitised collection of over 77 thousand artworks, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art produced 360° virtual tours of its spaces and, closer home, the National Museum in New Delhi kept up with its patrons through regular informative posts on Instagram....
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Silver Art Projects—a new artist residency program established by Silverstein Properties, the real estate development firm that was instrumental in the rebuilding of much of the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—is looking to bring more artists to Lower Manhattan...
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about 33 months ago (04/25/2022)
Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to Take Over Venice Island – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All April 25, 2022 3:06pm The Isola di San Giacomo...
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about 46 months ago (03/24/2021)
The Substation’s SeptFest 2021: The last chapter | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints AIRISU / The Substation March 24, 2021 By Nabilah Said Against the backdrop of a battle of words , an impossibility is happening...
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about 46 months ago (03/17/2021)
Alternative Lessons for Women: Sonia Kwek and Tan Weiying on sex, desire and the erotic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Charmaine Poh March 17, 2021 By Aditi Shivaramakrishnan Adapting its title from Lessons for Women << 女诫>>, a text by the first known female Chinese historian, Ban Zhao, Alternative Lessons for Women is a double-bill of two solo works: Hymen Instinct created and performed by Sonia Kwek and What? That’s It? created and performed by Tan Weiying....
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about 46 months ago (03/12/2021)
Brown Is Haram: Kristian-Marc James Paul and Mysara Aljaru reclaim their space | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of the artists March 12, 2021 Brown Is Haram: Reconstructing The Brown Narrative is a performance-lecture exploring different aspects of the experience of being brown in Singapore, exploring issues such as social mobility and masculinity...
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about 47 months ago (03/09/2021)
The future of The Substation: A timeline of events (Updated) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles The Substation Facebook Page March 9, 2021 By Ke Weiliang, with assistance from Nabilah Said Last updated: 12 Nov 2021 ArtsEquator has compiled a timeline of events that details recent developments surrounding the future of The Substation...
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about 47 months ago (03/09/2021)
The Substation: An unstoppable force and an immovable object | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Substation's Facebook page, taken by Mish'aal March 9, 2021 By Nabilah Said, with additional reporting by Ke Weiliang On Saturday, 6 March 2021, almost 300 members of the arts community came together in a Zoom Townhall to discuss the fate of independent arts centre The Substation...
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about 47 months ago (02/20/2021)
The Substation: How many more canaries in the coal mine? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 20, 2021 By Hoe Su Fern Since 1990, The Substation has been the sole occupant of the conserved building at 45 Armenian Street...
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about 58 months ago (03/19/2020)
The Space of/for Memory: ”Last Night I Saw You Smiling” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of artist March 19, 2020 By Alfonse Chiu (2,078 words, 7-minute read) Every space tells a story: the empty prison cell speaks of redemptions, of wrongs that were righted, and to the cynical, more earthly, minds, of miscarriages of justice, and the irrevocability of tragedies and the people who made them; the crowded hospital ward hums, sometimes a baleful tune when a heart attack becomes a full-body scan becomes something decidedly terminal, and sometimes a bright chime when a newborn takes their first breaths and screams to announce their entry into this world; and tales of homes, houses, and hauntings have infested almost every definition and genre of fiction and non-fiction known to mankind: killing, nourishing, obscuring, stagnating, etc...
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about 60 months ago (02/02/2020)
A house is not a home: Centre 42 and Arts Resource Hub | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints February 3, 2020 By Nabilah Said and Kathy Rowland The fate of a certain house is a matter of contention amongst a group of people in Singapore...
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about 60 months ago (01/25/2020)
For more than a decade, Jan Vormann has used LEGOs to craft “dispatchwork” for centuries-old structures, public spaces across the globe, and other eroded areas...
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about 61 months ago (01/08/2020)
Gary Stranger is known for typographic art that, in a manner that shocks many, is executed free-hand...
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about 62 months ago (11/28/2019)
The paintings and drawings of David Welker have adorned rock posters, public spaces, and gallery walls...
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about 62 months ago (11/21/2019)
Swoon first garnered recognition for her pasted portraits in public spaces, but a new show represents an evolution for the artist, currently showing at Deitch's New York venue...
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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 76 months ago (10/11/2018)
Coda Culture: A Space for Freedom | Arts Equator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Akanksha Raja October 11, 2018 As told to Akanksha Raja In the latest instalment in our series covering independent art spaces in Southeast Asia, ArtsEquator.com spoke with artist Seelan Palay to learn about his practice, his inspirations, and his journey setting up the independent alternative art space Coda Culture , at 803 King George’s Avenue in Singapore...
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about 77 months ago (09/17/2018)
Plus Mûrs — UNRTD™ Plus Mûrs Plus Mûrs is a Nantes-based multidisciplinary creative studio working within the spaces of art direction, editorial and graphic design...
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1930-1939
Tina Modotti
1930The Italian photographer Tina Modotti is known for her documentation of the mural movement in Mexico...
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1980-1989
Charles Gaines
1980To make his series Shadows (1980), Gaines subjected 20 potted plants to a uniform procedure...
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1990-1999
John Baldessari
Drawing & Print
1991(Drawing & Print) The voids in Baldessari’s painted photographs are simultaneously positive and negative spaces, both additive and subtractive...
Colectivo Tercerunquinto
Drawing & Print
1999(Drawing & Print) BF15 is a preparatory study for the collective’s intervention at the BF15 gallery in Mexico, near Monterrey...
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2000-2009
William E. Jones
2000His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training...
Raphaël Zarka
2001This photograph seems to be awaiting meaning, it more or less evokes known elements without really identifying with them completely: a motorway interchange, a bridge, an electric pylon… In fact this is the end of the tracks of the Aérotrain, a wheelless monorail invented by Jean Bertin in the 1970s, which acts like ‘a fossil of movement on landscape scale’, as explained by the artist...
Tammy Rae Carland
2002Carland’s series of large-format photographs Lesbian Beds (2002) depicts beds that have been recently vacated...
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...
Lisa Oppenheim
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) The Damaged series by Lisa Oppenheim takes a series of selected photographs from the Chicago Daily News (1902 – 1933) as its source material...
Lisa Oppenheim
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) The Damaged series by Lisa Oppenheim takes a series of selected photographs from the Chicago Daily News (1902 – 1933) as its source material...
Lisa Oppenheim
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) The Damaged series by Lisa Oppenheim takes a series of selected photographs from the Chicago Daily News (1902 – 1933) as its source material...
Lu Chunsheng
2004A mesmerizing experience of a vaguely familiar yet remote world, History of Chemistry I follows a group of men as they wander from somewhere beyond the edge of the sea through a vast landscape to an abandoned steel factory...
Mikhael Subotzky
2004“Pasvang, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison” is the result of three months Subotzky spent inside the walls of Pollsmoor Prison, an overcrowded correctional facility largely controlled by gangs...
Christoph Draeger
2006In his performative action Subterranean Doomsday Vendor , Draeger positions himself in the subway system of Mexico City, as part of the common occurrence of bootleg media vendors...
Hiraki Sawa
2006Hako (2006) depicts a mysterious and dystopic landscape where the world becomes flat: distance between different spaces, depth of field and three-dimensional perceptions are canceled...
Colectivo Tercerunquinto
2006Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey is a public sculpture on the periphery of the city of Monterrey...
Alexandre Arrechea
2006White Corner (2006) is a video installation, projected on two protruding perpendicular walls...
Aaron Young
2007The artist describes the work as “very performative video-pieces but they take on a more sculptural feel...
Sung Hwan Kim
2007An early work in Sung Hwang Kim’s career, the video Summer Days in Keijo—written in 1937 is a fictional documentary, the film is based on a non-fiction travelogue, In Korean Wilds and Villages , written by Swedish zoologist Sten Bergman, who lived in Korea from 1935 to 1937...
Jiang Pengyi
2008Unregistered City is a series of eight photographs depicting different scenes of a vacant, apparently post-apocalyptic city: Some are covered by dust and others are submerged by water...
Sharon Lockhart
2008Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U...
Sharon Lockhart
2008Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor, through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U...
Pak Sheung Chuen
2008Pak created New York Public Library Projects (NYPLP) (2008) during a residency in New York, using public libraries as exhibition spaces and the books they house as raw materials...
Jonas Staal
2008Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”...
Katinka Bock
2008Like with other works of the artist, with First Piano Katinka Bock tried to go against the rules of use of clay, that is, by forcing the material to the extreme, and transferring the resulting elements into a cubic shaped volume...
Andrew Grassie
2009In 2008, Grassie was invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to document the transformation of some of its spaces...
Maaike Schoorel
2009This is one of the most important works Schoorel has made to date, a triptych that has as its subject matter a garden scene with what looks like a pond...
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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2010-2019
Mungo Thomson
2010In Thomson’s Untitled (TIME) , every front cover of TIME magazine is sequentially projected to scale at thirty frames per second...
Chadwick Rantanen
2010Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure...
Etel Adnan
2010Adnan’s paintings are simple images with bold contrasting colors and rich textures...
Charlotte Moth
2010Charlotte Moth asked the art critic Francesco Pedraglio to write a text in response to the Man Ray film “Les Mystères du Château de Dé”, the decor of which was the Villa Noailles, built by Mallet-Stevens...
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...
Renee Rhodes
2011The artist writes about her work: “There is an endless desire to know what we look like from outer space and many of us have evolved into a species that exists across the disorienting spaces and timeframes of virtuality...
Pablo Accinelli
2011In Onde quer que voce esteja (2011) Accinelli sets up a row of cardboard shipping tubes of varying heights and inscribes on them in black ink the words of the title, which translates in English as “Wherever you may be.” The words, while legible, seem like fragmented lines and shapes—almost but not quite a deconstruction of the text...
Hong-Kai Wang
2011The video Music While We Work (2011) is the first part/work of a long-term research project started in 2010...
Kiluanji Kia Henda
2011Redefining The Power (with Didi Fernandes) is a metaphor of how reflections on history and society during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002) are largely ignored within the canon of history...
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...
Clément Rodzielski
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) These photographs are installation shots of the exhibition De A à B, de B à P at Bielefelder Kunstverein (13 November 2010-30 January 2011)...
Dineo Seshee Bopape
2012Interested in the collection of object and their potential to evoke various emotional reactions in the audience, Bopape’s “Why do you call me when you know I can’t answer the phone” is an invitation into the limitless netherworld of the unsaid and unspoken...
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 Wong
2012Untitled (Grate I/II: Shan Mei Playground/ Grand Fortune Mansion) is part of a series drawn from architectural objects that mark the boundary of public and private spaces Wong encountered while strolling in Hong Kong...
Heman Chong
2012The work Calendars is composed of 1001 images of deserted public areas in Singapore printed on pages of a calendar set from the year of 2020 until 2096...
Yuki Kimura
2012Kastura (2012) is an installation consisting of 24 black-and-white photographs of the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto bequeathed by Kimura’s grandfather; free-standing structures on which they are hung; and ornamental plants...
Oded Hirsch
2012Oded Hirsch’s video work Nothing New (2012) utilizes seemingly absurdist tropes to raise more trenchant questions about communal action and collective identity in modern day Israel...
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...
Charlotte Moth
2012It is with the eye of a sculptor that Charlotte Moth records modernist architecture and its copies which she encounters during her trips and residences...
Charlotte Moth
2012It is with the eye of a sculptor that Charlotte Moth records modernist architecture and its copies which she encounters during her trips and residences...
Sebastián Díaz Morales
2012Pasajes I is the first in a series of Sebastián Díaz Morales’s four videos Pasajes , which focuses on a solitary man walking through Buenos Aires...
Takeshi Murata
2013Takeshi Murata developed an interest in space inspired by his architect parents...
James Collins
2013These two large format untitled paintings by James Collins feature the artist’s hallmark technique, which transforms abstraction into an optical illusion that creates dimension, space, and mass...
Daniela Ortiz
2013Previously, Ortiz produced a series of photographs related to her research on the position of ‘service architecture’, the vital space given to domestic servants in the modernist architectural houses of South American upper class families...
Haroon Gunn-Salie
2013Executed on Sunday 17 August 2013, “Zonnebloem renamed” is a site-specific performative video film marking the centenary of the 1913 Natives Land Act in South Africa...
Cheryl Donegan
2013Fashion is the focus of Blood Sugar , which consists of a video projected onto a vintage vinyl jacket set at torso height on a dressmaker’s dummy...
Marc Nagtzaam
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Nagtzaam’s medium is drawing and his repertory of forms varies from abstract hard-edge and wall drawing to the reproduction of written material that he collects from art magazines...
Ximena Garrido Lecca
2014Destilaciones ( Distillations , 2014) is an installation composed of a group of ceramic pots, presented on the floor and within a steel structure...
Li Binyuan
2014Freedom Farming presents how, after being given the right of farming, Li Binyuan began to re-dig his land...
Nina Könnemann
2015For many years, Nina Könnemann has placed a camera before a billboard situated in the suburb Neukoln in Berlin...
Luciano Figueiredo
2015Figueiredo’s succinct forms are rendered in bright hues of yellow, red, green, and blue, with white and black defining positive and negative spaces within the overall geometry...
Elisabeth Wild
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Her collage works are made from the pages of glossy lifestyle magazines, from which the artist identifies colors, forms, and textures that she reconstitutes into rich, abstract compositions...
Taloi Havini
2015Following her family’s political exile to Australia in 1990, Havini began to document her journey’s home to the north of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville...
Nick Mauss
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) As in other Mauss’ works that often look unfinished, the drawings in Untitled seem ever at the phase of the sketch, his segments as if they may uproot and reorient themselves at any moment...
I-Hsuen Chen
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Part of the series Still Life Analysis II: The Island , the two photographs The Objects under the Civic Boulevard and A Yellow Blanket on a Wooden Pallet feature household objects of vagrants living beneath the Taipei’s Civic Boulevard expressway...
Laura Huertas Millán
2016La libertad is a “greca” film, a meander film, with no beginning nor end, weaving together fragments of daily life at the Navarro´s, counting threads and time, wondering and wandering around words as emancipation, labor, and freedom (la libertad), the word that most appeared in our conversations...
José Castrellón
2016Palo Enceba’o is a project by José Castrellón composed of three photographs, two drawings on metal, and a video work that creates a visual and cultural analogy between the events of January 9th, 1964 in Panama City and the game of palo encebado carried out in certain parts of Panama to celebrate the (US-backed) independence from Colombia...
José Castrellón
2016Palo Enceba’o is a project by José Castrellón composed of three photographs, two drawings on metal, and a video work that creates a visual and cultural analogy between the events of January 9th, 1964 in Panama City and the game of palo encebado carried out in certain parts of Panama to celebrate the (US-backed) independence from Colombia...
Mika Tajima
2017Mika Tajima’s Pranayama sculptures are built from carved wood and chromed Jacuzzi jets and are presented as artefacts...
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...
Laura Gannon
2017The impressionistic surface of Wild Money (2017) recalls the 1950s paintings of Philip Guston...
Curtis Talwst Santiago
2017Curtis Talwst Santiago has been creating intimate and performative environments within these small spaces for several years; the artist used to carry them around to show visitors one on one, opening up a scene in the space of his hand...
Carolyn Drake
2018Megan and Hazel Sue at Creekmore House by Carolyn Drake is from a series of works titled Knit Club ...
Cian Dayrit
2018Yuta Nagi Panaad (Promised Land) by Cian Dayrit addresses the impacts of the globalized economy and its powerful ideology on the spaces of everyday life...
Camel Collective
2018Gated Commune , a video by Camel Collective, is a critique of the complex, and often obtuse, language used to describe sustainable development projects...
Judith Hopf
2018Hopf’s works reference the effects that developments in economics and technology have had on our bodily and mental composition...
Wingyee Wu, Lap-See Lam
2018Chinese restaurants have been a familiar feature of Swedish cities since the late 1970s, embodying the foreign and the exotic...
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
2018La Ruta by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo follows the Panoramic Route, a now weakened infrastructure that meanders through untouched natural landscapes and off-road destinations on the island of Puerto Rico...
siren eun young jung
2018Taking the same name as their most recent solo show at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, siren eun young jung’s video work Deferral Theatre intertwines various threads from the last decade of the artist’s research into the Yeoseong Gukgeuk theatrical form, in which all of the roles are played by women, as well as performance-based modes of queer resistance in South Korea...
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Advanced Technology
2018(Advanced Technology) The virtual reality work Aquaphobia by Jakob Kudsk Steensen examines it’s title subject matter – the fear of water...
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Advanced Technology
2018(Advanced Technology) RE-ANIMATED by Jakob Kudsk Steensen revolves around the haunting sound of the Kauai’O’o, a bird that became extinct in the year of Steensen’s birth...
Chanell Stone
2019Natura Negra , which translates to “Black Nature”, is a black-and-white photographic series by Chanell Stone that explores the connection between the Black body and nature within man-made environments...
Luka Yuanyuan Yang
2019Composed of three photographic panels, Three Times at Yamato Hotel by Luka Yuanyuan Yang is a part of the artist’s ongoing project Dalian Mirage , a seven act play in a theatre staged as the city of Dalian...
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2020-2029
Jarrett Key
2020Jarrett Key’s practice combines several modes of production into a single frame, incorporating sculpture, painting, and performance...
Clarisse Hahn
2020Les princes de la rue by Clarisse Hahn is part of Boyzone , a long term project in which the artist observes how men’s bodies reflect their relationships to public and private spaces...
Zhu Changquan
2020In Dark Beyond Deep by Zhu Changquan the film presents the process of how consciousness gradually develops and extends from the real world to virtual space through a raven named Cyma...
Xolo Cuintle
2020In a post-apocalyptic setting, a layer of dust petrifies everything in an eternal state of latency...
Rahima Gambo
2020“ I think we are oversaturated, filled to the brim with images in our inner subconscious eye...
Oren Pinhassi
2020Oren Pinhassi’s work examines the relationship between the human figure and the built environment...
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...
Enar de Dios Rodríguez
2022Ecotone by Enar de Dios Rodríguez is a video work presented in six chapters, each beginning and ending with a one-sided telephone dialog with an informal, friendly and conversational tone, that leads quickly into complex philosophical subjects...
James Webb
2022Referencing psychology, philosophy, and spiritualism, A series of personal questions addressed to a Hikimawashi kappa traveling coat by James Webb is an ongoing series in which the artist poses spoken questions to objects via a speaker installed near the object on display...
Tessa Mars
2022In this untitled acrylic painting, Tessa Mars explores the long-lasting effects of colonialism on the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, particularly in terms of female vulnerability and resilience...
Hitesh Vaidya
2022In the process of creating this deeply personal body of work, titled Recollecting Memories , artist Hitesh Vaidya repeatedly visited the site of his ancestral home that was destroyed during the devastating earthquakes in Nepal in 2015...
Laís Amaral
Drawing & Print
2022(Drawing & Print) Laís Amaral abstract paintings dialogue with the feminine power...
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...
Helina Metaferia
2023By Way of Revolution is a series of works by Helina Metaferia that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
Helina Metaferia
2023By Way of Revolution is a series that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
