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Joachim Koester
Physical and mental exploration have been founding elements in Joachim Koester’s research for several years. While exploration was mainly a matter of geography during the 19th century, the 20th century brought the mental exploration of our unconscious, triggered by the discovery of psychoanalysis. Koester is interested in documenting minor events, forgotten by History, in order to reintroduce them into collective memory.
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Joachim Koester
Tarantism is the name of disease which appeared in southern Italy, resulting from the bite of a spider called Tarantula. This bite caused various symptoms, such as nausea, difficulty to speak, delusion, excitability and agitation. The victims suffered then from convulsions and the only way to heal them was to engage in a frenzied dance, as it was believed.
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Vivek Vilasini
In his work Housing Dreams Walls , the houses photographed are from a closely-knit locale in Kerala – a significant and rapidly popular pattern in this part of the country. The pattern of richly colored and aggressively decorated residences symbolizes prosperity and exudes a sense of security – both financial and social. Although the vocabulary of aesthetics can be termed kitsch, the idea is to understand the underlying expression in the ostentatiously and vibrantly decorated households and giving them some sense of individuality, reflecting their owners’ personalities.
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Matt Mullican
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Mullican’s Stick Figure Drawings depict characters reduced to their most basic graphic representation. Glen is a simple silhouette, genderless and inspired by a found photo of a crime scene, in whom we recognize the generic sign of the universal symbol of a self-portrait. Mullican continually projects himself, sometimes physically, into the silhouette that he has created, allowing the artist to pass from one reality to another.
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Anna Boghiguian
In the painting called “The Consciousness of Memory, Time, and Guilt” as in many of her recent works, the body is fragmented. The brain, the ear, the eyes, these body parts that put us in relation with the other and link the visible to the invisible, remain isolated. Whereas the skulls are joined by lines evoking rivers.
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Matthew Buckingham
Matthew Buckingham presents a narrative directly connected with a highly symbolic site in the United States, the Mount Rushmore Memorial*. He elaborates a historiographic narrative of this place and switches it into the domain of science fiction by proposing a photograph of the Memorial as it should appear in 500 000 years. The effigies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt become unrecognizable.
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Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson’s flag paintings document the 20th century history of African people, indexing the period of liberation from colonialism. As the majority of African flags were created during the 1950s and 60s, they were intended to reflect a so-called ‘modern’ aesthetic and ideology. Many African flags maintain the typical flag tropes such as stripes, stars, birds, and blocks of primary and secondary colors; green to represent the land; blue to symbolize the ocean or sky; and red to recall the violence that occured in the pursuit of liberty.
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Kelley Walker
The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series ‘The Black Star Press project’ initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo essay on the struggle for civil rights in Alabama, directed by Charles Moore in 1962 (and published by the magazine ‘Life’) which showed the repression of the black population and persistent inequalities in the southern United States. The title “Black Star Press” is taken from the name of the news agency where Charles Moore worked, and it refers to the young black man shot fighting for the rights of his community.
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Eusebio Siosi
Jepira is a mythical and essential place of the spiritual dimension for the Wayuu people. It is the starting point and final resting place in their transcendence process which is part of the territory and not dissociated from it, such as in the Catholic notion of Heaven. Today, the Pilon de Azúcar hill which corresponds with Jepira is part of their reclaimed land and connects this dessert culture to the sea; it is the place the Wayuu go when they need to speak with the dead which, along with dreams, is the main way to access spiritual knowledge.
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Jennifer Bornstein
Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of local cable program from the mid-1990s in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos. When it comes her turn to “perform,” Bornstein displays mundane and disposable—but elaborately archived or framed—consumer objects such as coffee lids, plastic straws, candy wrappers, and product labels. Through the medium of public broadcasting, then, she makes visual the frequently overlooked but massive cultural penetration of advertising, and its proliferation of “throwaway culture” via images.
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Loris Gréaud
This work refers to the “Dream Machines”, an experimental object invented by the painter and writer Brion Gysin and the scientist Ian Sommerville, and which is composed of a light bulb with light passing through slits in a rotating cylinder. Loris Gréaud revisits the structural mechanism; the light variations, following the frequency shift of the “ Dream Machines”,, which is transcribed here by the undulations of the light produced by the filament lamps. Beyond this technological reference, the artist also quotes stories, legends, rumors about this invention in order to crystallize them in a contemporary technological object.
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Jordan Wolfson
Dreaming of the dream of the dream is a 16mm projection consisting of images of waves that come and go continuously. The artist has assembled extracts of cartoons in which water is visible (the sea, bubbles, a stream, waves, etc.). Somewhat nostalgic, these extracts can recall either childhood cartoons or paintings by Hokusai.
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Yoan Capote
Open Mind is a model created by Capote for a traversable public maze that, when seen from above, resembles the human brain. Because individual movement through the maze echoes the movement of neurons and a larger aggregated whole, visitors can be seen to enact a model of sociality and public space that both embodies and metaphorizes social consciousness. Capote’s model shows not just the proposed structure, but features figurines as well, to illustrate the possible scale and interactivity of the final piece.
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Andrea Fraser
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The year 2016 is organized like a telephone book; the data corresponding to the contributions are classified in alphabetical order by the name of the donor. With this database as well as other types of information, the 900-page book presents a material representation of the scale of the cross over between cultural philanthropy and the financing of political campaigns in America. It also provides an unprecedented resource for discovering the political leaning of the museum sector.
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Yang Guangnan
Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands.
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Pio Abad
A Thoughtful Gift by Pio Abad is based on a version of a letter written by the former First Lady of the United States, Nancy Reagan to the former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos. Written in 1986, the letter assures Marcos of their safety from persecution in the United States, following widespread anti-government protests across the Philippines. The Marcoses were granted exile in the United States by the Reagan administration and they eventually fled to Honolulu.
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Yang Guangnan
In Action no. 1 Yang Guangnan reflects on the interiority and exteriority of human-technological experience with mechanical gestures that are semi-human and semi-machine. A hanged shirt mounted upon the artist’s machine rhythmically bounces and rotates in a way that suggests a skeletal interior.
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Filmed underwater, this is the third video in Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s “Memorial Project” series which began in 2001. The title already implies the cultural complexities about to be ironically unravelled: Ho Chi Minh is parodied and Okinawa (where this was filmed) was a battle site in Japan during World War II which then became an American training base during the Vietnam War. To a remix of James Bond movie tracks composed by Quoc Bao, no less than thirty divers in wet suits and full gear advance against the water resistance armed with cartridges of color.
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Gauri Gill
Acts of Appearance is an ongoing series by Gauri Gill consisting of lush, large-scale color portraits of the residents of a village in Maharashtra, in Western India, which is known for making Adivasi masks. Adivasi people are part of the tribal groups population of South Asia. Instead of requesting the likenesses of gods and demons, Gill asked the residents—including the master mask-makers Subhas and Bhagavan Dharam Kadu, their families, and fellow volunteers—to make masks that portray their own lives.
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Chitra Ganesh
Rabbithole by Chitra Ganesh is a digital animation that refigures a fundamental plot device in myths and fables. Referencing iconic folklore such as Alice in Wonderland, the Odyssey, and the Mahabharata, Ganesh’s video illustrates the story of a hero’s journey and transformation that is not driven by the glory of violent conquest or saving a damsel in distress. Ganesh’s short video features a colorful style of illustration specific to the artist’s comic works.
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Juliana Huxtable
Herculine’s Prophecy by Juliana Huxtable features a kneeling demon-figure on what appears to be a screen-print, placed on a wooden table, which has then been photographed and digitally altered to appear like a book cover, with a title and subtitle across the top, and a poem written across the bottom. This composition is stuck to a metal plate by a series of button magnets, with interjecting phrases on them. The juxtaposition between the mysogynistic, almost puritan poetry that stripes across the bottom and the powerful crouching pose that the femme demon assumes inverts the hegemonic text , instead creating a space of alterity.
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William E. Jones
His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training. Using a still camera to compose the fifty images of the series, Jones turns his lens on the vernacular architecture of California’s southern region, looking at the iconic and idiosyncratic spaces that define a region. William E. Jones is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose interests lie in the circulation of images—images that are broadcast, images that are hidden, and images that become imbedded in our collective consciousness.
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Dread Scott
In conjunction with his first NFT sale of White Male Dread Scott made and circulated a poster titled Whites For Sale . The indigo-colored poster advertises a “cargo” of newly arrived white slaves, from which one will be for sale. This work is adapted from a 1796 slave sale announcement poster that is now archived in the library at Columbia University, NYC.
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Julius Koller
The photograph Monologic – Yo-Yo 1, 2 (U. F. O. ), (1982), shows Koller playing with a big white Yo-Yo in a drab concrete building among a group of tower blocks.
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Trevor Paglen
NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States
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Chitra Ganesh
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Art of War 1, City in Broad Daylight, Leaving the House, Justice is a Virtue, and Lions are Stronger than Men are linocut prints from the series Sultana’s Dream . This series by artist Chitra Ganesh comprises a large-scale narrative suite inspired by a 1905 feminist utopian (eponymous) text written by a Bengali writer and social reformer, Rokeya Sakhhawat Hossain. Educated thanks to the support of her elite family, Hossain was one of the few Bengali women of her generation writing in English.
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Nguyen Trinh Thi
The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province. It begins with sound – perhaps a hammer, or a gong – the lack of image making its identification difficult. A landscape emerges of an open field where a farmer tends his grazing cow herd.
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Adriana Lara
Lara uses things readily at hand to create objects and situations that interrogate the processes of art and the spectrum of roles that art and artists play in society. To these ends, she has used furniture, projections, photographs, clothing, and even people as her materials. A reflection on how the production of meaning itself takes place in the manufacturing of things is embodied in wooden hand chairs, a crafty Indonesian version of the iconic Pedro Friedeberg 1960s Pop design.
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Bo Wang
The Orbit by Bo Wang is based on the story of Hu Na, a former professional tennis player who was known for defecting from the People’s Republic of China. While on tour in California for the 1982 Federation Cup with the China Federation Cup team, Hu Na fled her hotel room and sought refuge at a friend’s home on her second day in the United States. In April 1983, she requested political asylum on the basis that she had a well-founded fear of persecution because of repeatedly refusing to join the Communist Party of China’s tennis team.
Gan Chin Lee
Gan Chin Lee is a Malaysian artist of Chinese descent known across Southeast Asia for his realist paintings that painstakingly register the ethnic and religious complexities of Malaysia...
Yin-Ju Chen
- year born: 2011
- gender: female
- nationality: American & Taiwanese
Joachim Koester
- year born: 1962
- gender: male
- nationality: Danish
- home town: Copenhagen, Denmark
Chitra Ganesh
Spanning printmaking, sculpture, and video, Chitra Ganesh’s work draws from broad-ranging material and historic reference points, including surrealism, expressionism, Hindu, Greek and Buddhist iconographies, South Asian pictorial traditions, 19th-century European portraiture and fairy tales, comic books, song lyrics, science fiction, Bollywood posters, news and media images...
John Houck
- year born: 1977
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: South Dakota
Lin Ke
Lin Ke’s video and media-based installations explore how perceptual experiences of our surrounding environments are mediated and altered by various technologies...
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo’s films explore familial, neighborly, and citizen relationships in the context of Puerto Rico’s fraught history with the United States and the resulting imperialist oppression that has altered generations of families’ material and spiritual trajectories...
Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
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...
Bo Wang
Through new media, installation, and video and film, Bo Wang’s practice embodies sociopolitical and cultural subjects in contemporary China and beyond...
Javid Soriano
Javid Soriano is a filmmaker interested in recording the quotidian aspects of life...
Kelley Walker
- location: Columbus, United States
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: American
Adriana Lara
Adriana Lara is fascinated by how a single thing (an object, a photograph, a song, a text) can be transformed into a work of art...
Taiyo Kimura
Taiyo Kimura works with sculpture, video, and installation and uses everyday objects, humor, and music to questions the meaning of ordinary life...
Cici Wu
Beijing-born artist Cici Wu is a cultural nomad whose work takes on unusual forms, from functional sculptures to haphazard installations featuring delicate jerry-rigged parts, including for example: a stepper motor, belt, pulley, light sensor, sleeves, silicone, silver chain, dried strawberry leaves, and a video...
Binelde Hyrcan
Growing up during the Angolan Civil War, Binelde Hyrcan (b...
Andrea Fraser
- location: Montana, United States
- year born: 1965
- gender: female
- nationality: American
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
- location: Vietnam
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: Japanese-Vietnamese
- home town: Tokyo, Japan
Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky belongs to a younger generation of filmmakers that follows key figures of the Bay Area avant-garde scene, like Bruce Conner, and is mainly associated with Canyon Cinema...
Ed Ruscha
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1937
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Omaha, Nebraska
Zhang Kechun
Photographer Zhang Kechun documents striking scenery that meditates on the significance of landscape in modern Chinese national identity...
Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfson is often defined as a romantic conceptualist indeed his work tends to subvert material conditions of the art world and question contemporary socio-cultural or religious stereotypes with a great deal of highly strung melancholy, humor or cynicism...
Cao Fei
- location: Beijing, China
- year born: 1978
- gender: female
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Guangzhou, China
Truong Cong Tung
Truong Cong Tung produces work that can be located amongst an aesthetic realm outside of reason or sense...
Abigail Reyes
Abigail Reyes’s work is deeply ingrained in the feminist discourse of Latin America...
Eusebio Siosi
Eusebio Siosi is an artist from the Wayuu people in the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia...
Fred Wilson
- location: Bronx, United States
- year born: 1954
- gender: male
- nationality: American
Oded Hirsch
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: Israeli
- home town: Kibbutz Afikim, Israel
Otobong Nkanga
Visual artist and performer, Otobong Nkanga’s (b...
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about 3 months ago (02/08/2024)
Required Reading Skip to content Everybody’s Bolos , a sumptuous display of historical and contemporary bolo ties exploring the traditionally Indigenous art form, just opened at the University of North Texas, with bolos on view including Wyatt Nestor-Pasicznyk's "A Wilder Blue" (left), Navajo/Hopi artist JJ Otero's "Land Back" (center), and Bee Reid's "Violet Body" (right)...
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about 3 months ago (02/05/2024)
Arthur Tress Sought the Shadow Side of Photography Skip to content Arthur Tress, "Boy with Root Hands, New York, New York" from the series The Dream Collector (1971) (all photos Ksenya Gurshtein/ Hyperallergic ) LOS ANGELES — The earliest recorded evidence of humans’ fascination with dreams dates to antiquity, when Heraclitus wrote, “When men dream, each has his own world...
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RaMell Ross – Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body – AMERICAN SUBURB X Skip to content An image I find myself returning to over and over again is a photograph by RaMell Ross titled Dream Catcher (2014)...
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United States Artists announces its 2024 fellows, including six for visual arts...
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Danny Franzreb – Proof of Work – AMERICAN SUBURB X Skip to content My initial response to the massive swell of attention that cryptocurrency received in 2021, and more specifically to the non-fungible token (NFT) hysteria that gripped so much of cultural discourse online and in the press, was a dismissive roll of the eyes...
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The Defining Artworks of 2023 – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By The Editors of ARTnews Plus Icon The Editors of ARTnews View All December 18, 2023 2:20pm Photo Illustration: Kat Brown/ARTnews Each year, countless new artworks are made and historical ones come into sharper focus as events in the art world and beyond give them new valance...
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about 4 months ago (12/18/2023)
10 Galleries That Had a Breakout Year in 2023 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market 10 Galleries That Had a Breakout Year in 2023 Maxwell Rabb Dec 18, 2023 1:00PM Igi Lola Ayedun, installation view of “Eclosão de um Sonho, Uma Fantasia” at HOA, 2023...
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Curran Hatleberg – Lost Coast & River’s Dream – AMERICAN SUBURB X Skip to content There is a strange and perplexing photograph in Curran Hatleberg’s photobook, River’s Dream (TBW, 2022), which shows a man with a large swarm of bees attached to his face and body...
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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
Enmeshed, Dreams of Water at NARS Foundation advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main December 2023 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" December 2023 Enmeshed, Dreams of Water at NARS Foundation Keren Anavy...
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Hannah Antalek at 5-50 Gallery: Where Dreams Come True advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main December 2023 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" December 2023 Hannah Antalek at 5-50 Gallery: Where Dreams Come True 5-50: Hannah Antalek, Superseed, 2023, Installation View By JAN DICKEY December 3, 2023 From the wreckage of old worlds, there is always a small sprout lying in wait––something perfectly evolved for a world yet to come...
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about 5 months ago (11/29/2023)
Anna Uddenberg first ever film to premiere in the United States to audiences online this December - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 29 November 2023 Share — Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum has announced the debut of Useless Sacrifice , a short film created by renowned international Berlin-based Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg...
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about 5 months ago (11/27/2023)
Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence Exhibition Painting Philemona Williamson, A Pause Requested, 2020 Courtesy de l’artiste et galerie Semiose, Paris Philemona Williamson The Borders of Innocence Ends in 19 days: November 18 → December 30, 2023 In her more than four decades-long distinguished career, the American artist Philemona Williamson has created an evocative and compelling body of work that she describes as “visual poems.” Through the veil of personal memory, Williamson’s opaque narratives recall the beauty, drama, and vagaries of innocence...
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about 6 months ago (11/08/2023)
TAKASHI MURAKAMI Charge into the Center of Consciousness, 2023 In the realm of interior design, where each element carries significant weight in crafting a harmonious and aesthetically pleasing environment, the selection of artwork holds a position of utmost importance...
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about 6 months ago (10/30/2023)
Arctic Dreams - Photographs by Mario Heller | Essay by Erik Vroons | LensCulture Feature Arctic Dreams A photo essay about the small community living in the isolated town of Barentsburg on a Norwegian island in the far north — a location so remote it can only be reached by helicopter, snowmobile or ship...
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about 8 months ago (09/04/2023)
Dreaming on the Hudson - Photographs by Andrew Kung | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Feature Dreaming on the Hudson Questioning preconceived notions of masculinity and Asian American identity against the backdrop of the Hudson River Valley, Andrew Kung weaves a new American pastoral in images that capture tender moments of youth...
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Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian – Art and Cake August 1, 2023 August 1, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian Robert Soffian in his studio...
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Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian – Art and Cake August 1, 2023 August 1, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian Robert Soffian in his studio...
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Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian – Art and Cake August 1, 2023 August 1, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Robert Soffian Robert Soffian in his studio...
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The Growing Up Anthologies & the Diversity of Being “Brown” | ArtsEquator Skip to content In the latest installment of AWARE’s Growing Up anthology, Diana Rahim finds that in an environment where our experience of race and womanhood may be constricted, personal stories can be powerful acts of re-making and re-narrativising...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Tucked in the picturesque southern Adirondacks city of Glens Falls is The Hyde Collection, an intimate art museum...
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Tate Modern And Other International Institutions Acquire Artworks from Souls Grown Deep Collection For The First Time - via ARTnews...
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about 19 months ago (09/27/2022)
documenta fifteen: Dreaming of a New Cartography | ArtsEquator Skip to content Alia Swastika, the Director of the Jogja Biennale, offers a bold analysis of ruangrupa’s documenta fifteen, one that frames their artistic direction as an opening of new pathways that are long overdue...
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about 22 months ago (07/25/2022)
Careening Into “The Milk of Dreams”: Southeast Asia at the 59th Venice Biennale | ArtsEquator Skip to content While the stated theme of the Biennale is to challenge the hegemony of the West, Nicole Wong finds that the spaces created for these interventions to happen struggles against the behemoth of the Biennale itself...
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about 24 months ago (05/19/2022)
Spectrum of Nature in SIFA 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator interviews four artists whose works depict nature in different spectrums, at the upcoming Singapore International Festival of Arts 2022...
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about 53 months ago (12/20/2019)
The remixed and altered porcelain sculptures of ceramicist Penny Byrne often have a political edge...
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about 53 months ago (12/17/2019)
Zhiyong Jing says he paints "dreams, bodies and absurd realities." The Beijing-based artist takes a surprising approach to scale in his work, often rendering distant figures on small canvases...
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about 54 months ago (11/28/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Cambodia's Goddess of Flower, rave music in Indonesia | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Resident Advisor November 28, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
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about 55 months ago (10/22/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Vietnam's new costume institute; Is Penang's art scene dead? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Jitti Chompee October 22, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
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about 69 months ago (08/30/2018)
La Cie Maxmind's “Isle of Dreams”: The Dark Fantastic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Thum CC August 31, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (620 words, four-minute read) 拾念劇集 La Cie Maxmind’s Isle of Dreams ( 蓬萊) was the headlining event for the George Town Festival’s Taiwan-focused showcase this year...
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about 87 months ago (03/13/2017)
Karolina Halatek: The power of light - The re:art Karolina Halatek: The power of light In her immersive site-specific installations, Polish artist Karolina Halatek uses light as the main medium...
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1970-1979
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...
Antonio Ole
1978Antonio Ole’s Rhythm of N’gola Rhythms (1978), is a film about the struggle for Angolan political independence...
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1980-1989
Karen Lamassonne
1989Ventana indiscreta (Rear Window) by Karen Lamassonne takes its title from Hitchcock’s renowned 1954 classic...
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1990-1999
Jennifer Bornstein
1994Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of local cable program from the mid-1990s in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos...
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2000-2009
William E. Jones
2000His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training...
Matthew Buckingham
2002Matthew Buckingham presents a narrative directly connected with a highly symbolic site in the United States, the Mount Rushmore Memorial*...
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
2003Filmed underwater, this is the third video in Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s “Memorial Project” series which began in 2001...
Kelley Walker
2004The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series ‘The Black Star Press project’ initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker...
Loris Gréaud
2004This work refers to the “Dream Machines”, an experimental object invented by the painter and writer Brion Gysin and the scientist Ian Sommerville, and which is composed of a light bulb with light passing through slits in a rotating cylinder...
Jordan Wolfson
2004Dreaming of the dream of the dream is a 16mm projection consisting of images of waves that come and go continuously...
Joachim Koester
2006Physical and mental exploration have been founding elements in Joachim Koester’s research for several years...
Julio Cesar Morales
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention , show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without documentation...
Joachim Koester
2007Tarantism is the name of disease which appeared in southern Italy, resulting from the bite of a spider called Tarantula...
Yoan Capote
2007Open Mind is a model created by Capote for a traversable public maze that, when seen from above, resembles the human brain...
Otobong Nkanga
2008Born in 1974, Kano, Nigeria, Otobong Nkanga lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium...
Fred Wilson
2009Fred Wilson’s flag paintings document the 20th century history of African people, indexing the period of liberation from colonialism...
Bettina Pousttchi
2009For Bettina Poutsttchi’s large-format, site-specific photographic work Echo (2009–10), the four exterior walls of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin were covered with a digitally edited collage of archival images of the glass-and-steel facade of the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic), which had once been located nearby...
Mariana Castillo Deball
2009Do ut des (2009) is part of an ongoing series of books that Castillo Deball has altered with perforations, starting from the front page and working inward, forming symmetrical patterns when each spread is opened...
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2010-2019
Chitra Ganesh
2010Rabbithole by Chitra Ganesh is a digital animation that refigures a fundamental plot device in myths and fables...
Tomoko Yoneda
2010Yoneda’s Japanese House (2010) series of photographs depicts buildings constructed in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation, between 1895 and 1945...
Paul McCarthy
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) To make Mickey Mouse (2010), Paul McCarthy altered a found photograph—not of the iconic cartoon, but of a man costumed as Mickey...
Nathaniel Dorsky
2010Dorsky’s pieces included in the Kadist Collection are small still photographs from twelve of his most important films...
Yang Guangnan
2011Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....
Yin-Ju Chen
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) This work includes sketches for Extrastellar Evaluations , the project she produced at Kadist...
Zhang Kechun
2011Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Binelde Hyrcan
2011Binelde Hyrcan’s video “Cambeck” is a playful study of four boys on a beach in Angola playing in a chauffeured car made of sand...
Werner Herzog
2012Commissioned for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, Hearsay of the Soul (2012) is Werner Herzog’s ode to the landscape paintings of the 17th-century Dutch artist Hercules Segers...
Nicolás Paris
2012Nicolas Paris studied architecture and worked as an elementary school teacher before he decided to become an artist...
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...
Taus Makhacheva
2012For Taus Makhacheva, the wild, untamed side of human nature is often the foundation of many of her formal investigations...
Tadasu Takamine
2012The video work Japan Syndrome is a continuation of his lines of inquiry, taking post-Fukushima Japan as a case study...
Ana Roldán
2012Ana Roldán’s Displacements works use images taken from a 1970s exhibition catalogue for an exhibition called The Death in Mexico...
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
2013Another curious element is that it seemed that I was seeing images from the dreams I had that afternoon...
John Houck
2013Untitled #242 is part of Houck’s Aggregates Series, which uses digital tools to manipulate chosen sets and pairs of colors, creating colorful index sheets, bathed in colors and lines...
Javid Soriano
2013Set in the infamous Tenderloin district of San Francisco, Factotum of the City is a documentary film by Javid Soriano that delves into the life of a former world-class opera singer turned self-styled street hustler...
John Houck
2013John Houck’s brown- , sienna- and golden-toned composition, Untitled #185, 65, 535 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 16 colors , features densely packed lines of color moving diagonally across the creased page...
Lin Ke
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Jet Folder & Data Tree (2013) offers a humorous take on how computer and screen-based technologies affect our relationship to the natural world...
John Houck
2013John Houck’s multi-layered photographic compositions immortalize nostalgic objects from the artist’s childhood, manipulated in the studio and in post-production into unreal still-life arrangements...
Vivek Vilasini
2014In his work Housing Dreams Walls , the houses photographed are from a closely-knit locale in Kerala – a significant and rapidly popular pattern in this part of the country...
Anna Boghiguian
2014In the painting called “The Consciousness of Memory, Time, and Guilt” as in many of her recent works, the body is fragmented...
Adriana Lara
2014Lara uses things readily at hand to create objects and situations that interrogate the processes of art and the spectrum of roles that art and artists play in society...
Little Warsaw
2014Jaali – Horizontal references religious practices in Hungary that were considered as a civil disobedience throughout the 1950s...
Gauri Gill
2015Acts of Appearance is an ongoing series by Gauri Gill consisting of lush, large-scale color portraits of the residents of a village in Maharashtra, in Western India, which is known for making Adivasi masks...
Sara Cwynar
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Sara Cwynar’s composite photographs of found objects and images court feelings of time passing...
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
2015Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s performance Illusion of Matter establishes a dream state through a composition of motifs that were drawn from the artist’s childhood memories...
siren eun young jung
2015Deferral Archive is one of the archival extensions of siren eun young jung’s Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project (2008-), a decade-long ethnographic research project into the diminishing genre of Korean traditional theater known as Yeoseong Gukgeuk ...
Nguyen Phuong Linh
2016Set in the haunting space of an ex-colonial rubber plantation in Central Vietnam, Phuong Linh Nguyen’s film Memory of the Blind Elephant is a tender portrait of the complex economies of interspecies trauma and resilience in the face of continued extraction and destruction...
Miao Ying
2016As part of her project Chinternet Plus , a “counterfeit ideology” and parodic take on the strategy “Internet Plus” launched by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in 2015, the video work Post commentary, monetary likes, Morgan Freeman’s advice on reality gives an insight into Internet Culture in China...
Abigail Reyes
2016The video work Si Señor by Abigail Reyes is about the typical representation of women in Latin American office culture...
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)...
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...
Cally Spooner
2016The installation Self Tracking (the five stages of grief) was realized from a performance that is to be re-activated...
Juliana Huxtable
2017Herculine’s Prophecy by Juliana Huxtable features a kneeling demon-figure on what appears to be a screen-print, placed on a wooden table, which has then been photographed and digitally altered to appear like a book cover, with a title and subtitle across the top, and a poem written across the bottom...
Sky Hopinka
2017Dislocation Blues by Sky Hopinka is a portrait of the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in South Dakota...
Marlon de Azambuja
2017Following a series of related works, Brutalismo Americano by Marlon de Azambuja is a site-specific sculptural installation produced during the artist’s residency at Kadist, San Francisco in 2017...
Lynn Hershman Leeson
2017Using the seminal 1958 film Vertigo as a launchpad, Lynn Hershman Leeson explores the blurred lines between fact and fantasy in VertiGhost , a film commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco...
Matt Mullican
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Mullican’s Stick Figure Drawings depict characters reduced to their most basic graphic representation...
Chitra Ganesh
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Art of War 1, City in Broad Daylight, Leaving the House, Justice is a Virtue, and Lions are Stronger than Men are linocut prints from the series Sultana’s Dream ...
Chitra Ganesh
2018The title of Rainbow Body by Chitra Ganesh refers to an elevated state of, or metaphor for, the consciousness transformation known as a rainbow body...
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...
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...
Calderón & Piñeros (La Decanatura)
2018Calderón & Piñeros (La Decanatura) refer to Sólheimasandur as a work that tackles the issue of “the ruin as a tourist destination.” As they say, “at the end, tourists become an essential part of this unusual, beautiful, and—at the same time—banal landscape.” The video features a plane wreck on Sólheimasandur beach in Iceland, where a navy plane belonging to the United States Army crashed in 1973 due to fuel exhaustion...
Jordan Ann Craig
2019Something To Do With Being Held by Jordan Ann Craig is inspired by a Cheyenne bead bag...
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
2019In her film Retiro (2019), Natalia Lassalle-Morillo considers how women pass down memories to their kin as they age...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
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Andrea Fraser
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) The year 2016 is organized like a telephone book; the data corresponding to the contributions are classified in alphabetical order by the name of the donor...
Manuel Correa
2020Manuel Correa’s short film Didn’t Know I Died is a testimonial portrait of the acclaimed Colombian poet Olga Elena Mattei...
Pu Yingwei
2020ChinaCapital: Dream, Hot Land, Interstellar Colonization by Pu Yingwei addresses a complicated phenomena of intertwined influences from different political powers, capital forces, and ideologies in the reality of China...
Nguyen Trinh Thi
2021The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province...
Sofía Córdova
2021Sofía Córdova’s film dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here / coro_del_albaiii: la fruta que no tienen aquí weaves together six California migration stories that resist dominant social narratives that flatten the experience of migrants...
Eusebio Siosi
2022Jepira is a mythical and essential place of the spiritual dimension for the Wayuu people...
Dread Scott
2022In conjunction with his first NFT sale of White Male Dread Scott made and circulated a poster titled Whites For Sale ...
Helina Metaferia
2023By Way of Revolution is a series that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
