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Jompet Kuswidananto
Third Realm (2011) grew out of the artist’s long-term research of Indonesia’s colonial history and the processes of modernization and urbanization that have taken place there. Kuswidananto describes the nation as perpetually in an “in-between” state of transition. Thus he has developed the concept of a third reality, third space, or third body—an identity specifically for Indonesia that reflects its spatial realities and national character.
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Alexandre da Cunha
His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs. Alexandre da Cunha reinvents found objects in surprising ways that combine the material characteristics of Arte Povera with the concerns and techniques of painting. Da Cunha’s work often features flags—either as a found material per se or as a constructed form—that reflect the artist’s interest in issues of nationality, governmental politics, allegiance, and culture.
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Alexandre da Cunha
Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture. It directly engages with the readymade, a subject that Alexandre de Cunha takes up throughout his practice, often inflecting it with a tropical, and South American–inspired materiality and painterly style that could potentially come across as a stereotype. Here, da Cunha transforms the component parts into a composition that highlights often-overlooked materials of artistic production and cultural mass-production.
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Alexandre da Cunha
In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag. Where the printed surface of the towel originally served to enliven this commodity, here the pattern—now stretched and re-presented—suddenly refers to abstract painting’s promises of transcendence. And its crisply painted shape pulls the printed colors into the rectangularity of the canvas and, as da Cunha notes, the graphic iconicity of flags.
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Alexandre da Cunha
The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes. Here, da Cunha overlays thick bars of color (blue, green, and red) on photographs of the ocean at sunset with surfers in floating on the horizon. The solid colors contrast with the fading colors reflected in the sunset, and the tilted orientation suggests a familiar California beach scene.
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Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies. As in a periodic table, animals and objects are combined with humans (male or female), providing a rational framework for the irrational products of human imagination. A Cartesian matrix such as this must follow certain rules.
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Pedro Reyes
In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste. There is a missing organ in our social metabolism which would work as a stomach or intestines. The Recyclone is a device made of plastic containers that fit into each other.
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Hong Hao
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s. The series includes 37 prints to date, each of which resemble pages of an ancient open cartography book. In this series, the artist reflects on the authoritative influence of ancient books that shape dominant understandings of the world.
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Võ An Khánh
In Extra Curriculum Political Science Class 7/1972 , a group of women walk bare-foot and single file towards Dat Mui Mangrove in Ca Mau Province to attend ‘political science class’. These women wear headdress to protect their identities because they are spies placed strategically in the South by the Viet Cong. These classes of the ‘National Liberation Front for Southern Vietnam’ took place in the mangrove swamp in makeshift wooden huts where they would learn more of the political points of view of their forces and the changes in military situations across the country.
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Jinoos Taghizadeh
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Letter I Never Wrote is one of the most powerful series of Jinoos Taghizadeh. This is a series of stamps reflecting on variety of issues that the artist finds them important and critical to be discussed and seen by the public, which is also hidden and not talked enough by the Iranian government. From extremely political issues such as the chain murderers of intellectuals and politicians in Iran to environmental changes and archeological decadence of historical heritage, Taghizadeh is using one of the most popular form of circulation for information and communication to put these issues on top of them.
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Yee I-Lann
Sarcastically titled to call attention to the problematic notions underlying colonialism, this photograph shows hundreds of Native Malaysians seated quietly behind one of their colonial oppressors. The artwork belongs to Yee’s series Picturing Power (2013) that deals with the destabilizing impacts of neo-colonialism and globalization on Southeast Asia’s history. Yee approaches the aesthetics and politics of the ethnographic gaze with both irony and humanity, challenging the modes of seeing inherent to the British colonization of Malaysia.
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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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Chulayarnnon Siriphol
The single-channel video Myth of Modernity opens on historical representations of the universe in Thai Buddhist places of worship –pagodas, palaces and spirit houses. Denoting three cosmological worlds, the colored religious illustrations and ornate monuments are slowly replaced by images of anti-Yingluck protesters during the 2013-2014 Thai political crisis. Over the masses, a flying neon pyramid –the light sculpture Myth of Modernity – echoes the popular simplification of worship architecture into geometrical shapes.
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Jonas Staal
Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”. The paper, written by the second most important person of Geert Wilderds’ Freedom Party, concerns an ambitious model for a new prison that focuses on the reconditioning of prisoners by means of four phases. Staal’s work is developed through a book, a plan and a 3d virtual tour in the social imagery of a current minister of the State of the Netherlands.
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Antonio Ole
Antonio Ole’s Rhythm of N’gola Rhythms (1978), is a film about the struggle for Angolan political independence. It looks at the role of popular culture and labor strikes through the 40s and 50s following the band Ngola Ritmos who embarked upon a consciousness-raising mission with their pro-independence political music. Through both their clandestine activities and their music, the band is credited with aiding political mobilization take off in Angola.
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Michael Armitage
In “And so it is” shows the image of a faceless man before a microphone, ready to deliver an important message. The viewer is faced with the familiar image of political power seen in our homes on the television, yet this time located in a whimsical abstract landscape. The speaker appears as a shadow in front of a crowd that is responding to him by holding bubbles containing images of animals and plants.
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Paul Kos
Sound of Ice Melting is based on the ancient Zen Buddhist koan about the sound of one hand clapping. Here, Kos has surrounded two twenty-five-pound blocks of ice with eight microphones that call to mind the political press conferences prevalent during the Vietnam War era when this piece was created. Zen practice values such absurdity as a way to transcend the limitations of ordinary discourse and rational thought—empirical processes at the root of all political conflicts.
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Harrell Fletcher
The American War , which takes its title from the Vietnamese term for what Americans call the Vietnam War, has toured the United States extensively with the goal of presenting a Vietnamese perspective of that history. The project began in 2005 when Fletcher visited the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. He was shocked by images that depicted the lasting effects of the war and the atrocities committed by the United States.
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Willie Doherty
“I focused on how the political and physical merged” analyzes Willie Doherty. Out of the Shadows II plunges us into a dark night lit by a few street lights in a deserted street where a car is parked in the Irish city of Derry. What is at stake is yet to be unearthed.
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Nicoline van Harskamp
The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters. From each book an excerpts that describes a childhood event and one that describes a political event or statement was selected. The former, in most cases, functions as an alibi or explanation of the latter.
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Brian Tripp
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography. The two works in the KADIST collection are a continuation of these forms with in the medium of sculpture.
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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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Jao Chia-En
30 Proposals of Flag explores the relationships between signs, meanings, aesthetics, and nations. The artwork consists of 30 flags layered together and hanging from the ceiling. Each flag is illustrated with Jao’s rendition of a possible coat of arms derived from Taiwan’s economic and political history.
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Andrea Bowers
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights. The protesters and their supporters carried signs and wore t-shirts whose messages are highlighted in the drawings. However, in them, Bowers isolates the images of the protesters from the multitude that surrounds them in the original photographs, and, therefore amplifies their messages.
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Brian Tripp
For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography. The two works in the KADIST collection are a continuation of these forms with in the medium of sculpture.
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Akiq AW
In the Family Portrait series, Akiq AW documents reliefs and statues in Jogja, Indonesia that present an image of the ideological nuclear family. Following Indonesia’s communal and political conflicts, and its economic collapse and social breakdown of the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the second Indonesian President Suharto established the “New Order” regime. During this period, there were efforts to control the national birth rate through a programme called Keluarga Berencana (Family Planning).
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Cecilia Vicuña
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design. The title itself is a portmanteau that unites the words palabra (word) and arma (weapon) that speaks literally of the power of words through their poetic potential. A poet herself, Vicuña developed a long series of palabrarmas on diverse media that were often used as slogans in political demonstrations.
Akram Zaatari
- location: Sayda, Al-Lubnan
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: Lebanese
Lim Sokchanlina
Lim Sokchanlina, nicknamed ‘Lina’, works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, installation, and performance; particularly drawn to the use and function of space where urban communities meet rural attitudes...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
Marion Scemama is a French photographer and filmmaker...
Pedro Reyes
- location: Mexico City, Mexico
- year born: 1972
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Mexico City, Mexico
Alexandre da Cunha
- location: London, United Kingdom
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Brazilian
- home town: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bani Abidi
Bani Abidi’s practice deals heavily with political and cultural relations between India and Pakistan; she has a personal interest in this, as she lives and works in both New Delhi and Karachi...
Eric Baudelaire
Currently based in Paris, Franco-American artist Eric Baudelaire has developed an oeuvre primarily composed of film, but which also includes photography, silkscreen prints, performance, publications and installations...
Shilpa Gupta
- location: Mumbai, India
- year born: 1976
- gender: female
- nationality: Indian
- home town: Mumbai, India
Chen Chieh-Jen
- location: Taipei, Taiwan
- year born: 1960
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan
Humberto Diaz
Context is everything when it comes to the work of Humberto Diaz...
Andrea Bowers
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1965
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Wilmington, Ohio
Brian Tripp
Brian D...
Tina Modotti
- location: Mexico City, Mexico
- year born: 1896
- gender: female
- nationality: Italian
- home town: Udine, Italy
Runo Lagomarsino
- location: Malmo, Sweden
- location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
- year born: 1977
- gender: male
- nationality: Italian-Argentine-Swedish
- home town: Sweden
Jinoos Taghizadeh
Jinoos Taghizadeh uses a variety of media including painting, collage, video and performance and deals with the problematic construction of collective identities in contemporary Iran....
Hong Hao
Spanning photography, painting, installation, as well as behavior and performance art, Hong Hao’s artistic exploration is informed by the many cultural, political, and economic shifts in his lifetime...
Gao Mingyan
Gao Mingyan produces video based-works that examine the political and epistemological violence of our contemporary moment...
Nikita Kadan
Trained in large-scale painting, Nikita Kadan’s artistic practice encompasses installation, graphics, painting, wall drawing, and urban postering, sometimes in collaboration with architects, human rights activists, and sociologists...
Yael Bartana
- location: ‘Afula, Yisra'el
- year born: 1970
- gender: female
- nationality: Israeli
Adrian Villar Rojas
- year born: 1980
- gender: male
- nationality: Argentinean
Asier Mendizabal
Asier Mendizabal explores political subjects and their symbols...
Mandy El-Sayegh
Beginning with rigorous research and resulting in a wide range of media, from layered paintings, to installation, diagram, sculpture, sound and video, El-Sayegh’s work is about systems of bodily, linguistic and political order among others, and their disintegration...
Peter Friedl
Many of the projects of Peter Friedl, in their heterogeneous medium and style, function as intersection points between countless lines of thought and reference, creating a vast didactic network where dialogues simultaneously merge with critical logic and narrative...
Gabriel Borba Filho
Gabriel Borba Filho is an important actor in the Brazilian art scene during the 1960s and ‘70s...
Lynn Hershman Leeson
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1941
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Cleveland, Ohio
Yee I-Lann
- location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- year born: 1971
- gender: female
- nationality: Malaysian
- home town: Sabah, Malaysia
Paul Kos
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1942
- gender: male
- nationality: American
Richard Bell
Richard Bell works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video and text to pose provocative, complex, and humorous challenges to our preconceived ideas of Aboriginal art, as well as addressing contemporary debates around identity, place, and politics...
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about 3 months ago (02/12/2024)
Rudolf Nureyev: Rarely Seen Portraits of Ballet’s Original Enfant Terrible | AnOther Following Kim Jones’s Dior Autumn/Winter 2024 show, which drew inspiration from the exquisite style of Rudolf Nureyev, we take a closer look at Colin Jones’s photographs of the infamous ballet dancer February 08, 2024 Text Miss Rosen After getting his first taste of freedom in Paris while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in June 1961, 23-year-old Rudolph Nureyev faced down KGB operatives at Le Bourget Airport...
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about 3 months ago (02/09/2024)
Following a brutal and ongoing coup in 2021, artists from the country attempt to make sense of a troubling new political reality....
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about 3 months ago (01/25/2024)
Press Release: Art21 to Release First Film of 2024: “Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Politics of Listening” | Art21 Our Series Art in the Twenty-First Century Extended Play New York Close Up Artist to Artist William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Specials Art21.live An always-on video channel featuring programming hand selected by Art21 Playlists Curated by Art21 staff, with guest contributions from artists, educators, and more Art21 Library Explore over 700 videos from Art21's television and digital series Latest Video 15:03 Add to watchlist Politics of Listening Lawrence Abu Hamdan Extended Play February 7, 2024 Search Searching Art21… Welcome to your watchlist Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here...
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about 5 months ago (12/17/2023)
Anselm’s Sweeping Vision Obscures the Political Skip to content Anselm , dir...
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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
The year in LGBTQ+ politics: is transphobia in its flop era? | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ Mail Exit Life & Culture Dazed Review 2023 After a series of defeats and frustrations for the anti-trans movement, there’s hope that it may finally be running out of steam Text James Greig 12 December 2023 Trans Pride in London 2023 40 For the most part, 2023 has been a terrible year for anti-LGBTQ+ politics...
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about 5 months ago (12/09/2023)
Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Fair’s stands largely remain neutral despite multiple hot-topic issues in the world today Gareth Harris and Tim Schneider 9 December 2023 Share Julie Buffalohead’s Our Bodies Our Choice , in the Meridians section, references wide-ranging injustices against Native Americans Photo: Liliana Mora Should art engage with politics or offer an escape from politics? This is the question dealers, artists and collectors have tended to face in the run-up to Art Basel in Miami Beach from its very first outing...
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about 5 months ago (12/01/2023)
'Hold Me Now" explores the urgency of care-politics, healing and togetherness...
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about 5 months ago (11/29/2023)
Emilio Vedova: Venice’s Abstract Expressionist – Two Coats of Paint M9 Museum: Emilio Vedova, Rivoluzione Vedova, 2023, Installation View (photo courtesy of M9) Contributed by David Carrier / Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), who lived and worked in Venice, was once aptly dubbed the Jackson Pollock of the barricades...
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about 6 months ago (11/16/2023)
An expansive archive illustrates the role of women in shaping over a century of the country's political and public life....
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about 8 months ago (09/05/2023)
Artistic Freedom Report Thailand: Expansive and Politically Contentious | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Thailand from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
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about 9 months ago (07/26/2023)
Pantsula, a South African dance, emerged in townships as a form of political repression - France 24 Skip to main content Pantsula, a South African dance, emerged in townships as a form of political repression Issued on: 26/07/2023 - 19:17 Modified: 01/08/2023 - 11:42 01:29 Video by: Camille NEDELEC Dance company Via Katlehong is keeping South Africa's pantsula heritage alive...
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about 17 months ago (11/28/2022)
Criticism and Tears: The Emotional is Political in the Marcos State | ArtsEquator Skip to content When a film taps on emotions to distort historical facts, criticism that uses a rational, adversarial voice, above the work and the audiences who enjoy it may fail to dislodge the emotive power of the work’s narrative...
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about 26 months ago (03/03/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2022 By Chu May Paing (1,532 words, 6-minute read) Witness (noun) 1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal 3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place 4 : one who has personal knowledge of something 5 : something serving as evidence or proof – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I think about the word “witness” in English, I feel a sense of passivity: one being interpellated into seeing or being in the presence of an event unfolding in proximity of their own body (or mind)...
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about 26 months ago (03/01/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Skip to content A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar...
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about 34 months ago (07/29/2021)
The frenemy’s handshake: The Singapore Trilogy as political theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 29, 2021 By Clarissa Oon (2,650 words, 8-minute read) My phone vibrated one night, with a notification that Singapore political party Workers’ Party (WP) was premiering a live video on Instagram...
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about 46 months ago (07/15/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Thai artists talk politics; The horror animation artist | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Hoang An / Tuoi Tre July 16, 2020 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 47 months ago (06/25/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asian Radar: Malaysia reopens theatres; playwright Alfian Sa'at dragged into politics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar DPAC June 25, 2020 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 53 months ago (12/22/2019)
Everything In Its Right Place: The Body Politic and the Body | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Nabilah Said December 22, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,400 words, 7-minute read) “You’re a guest, you’re a guest, you’re a guest.” This anodyne version of the Beauty and The Beast song played in my head as I walked through the exhibition The Body Politic and the Body , currently on at ILHAM Gallery in Kuala Lumpur...
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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 57 months ago (09/03/2019)
by Chris Moore The China art market faces its most difficult period since 2008...
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about 60 months ago (06/04/2019)
“Invisible Habitudes”: The Personal Goes Political Goes Global | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng June 4, 2019 By Nabilah Said (621 words, three-minute read) On a Monday afternoon in Goodman Arts Centre, I am watching a group of dancers working...
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about 63 months ago (03/08/2019)
台北市立美术馆正式宣告，2020年第12届台北双年展将由法国知名社会学家、哲学家布鲁诺．拉图（Bruno Latour）与学者马汀．圭纳德林（Martin Guinard-Terrin）共同担任策展人。两位接棒的策展人表示，将于第11届的策展对话基础之上，进一步讨论「地理政治」（Geo-political）以及「地理历史」（Geo-historical）命题...
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about 68 months ago (09/25/2018)
Cartoonist Zunar on his sedition charges & fight for political reform (via Star2) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 25, 2018 It’s a Saturday afternoon at a major bookstore in the Gardens Mall in Kuala Lumpur...
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about 69 months ago (08/30/2018)
"Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession": Of Politics and Desire Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Tananop Kanjanawutisit August 30, 2018 By Amitha Amranand (1225 words, six-minute read) Everyone is always watching and being watched in Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession , the latest play by Japanese director Toshiki Okada...
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1920-1929
Tina Modotti
1927Modotti’s Diego Rivera Mural: Billionaires Club; Ministry of Education, Mexico D...
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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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1950-1959
Akram Zaatari
1950“Other photographers used to send me negatives of cross-eyed people, asking me to retouch them...
Akram Zaatari
1950“In the 1980s I started using coloured paper backdrops, one of which was yellow...
Akram Zaatari
1950“While taking the picture it was challenging to make the boys sit properly without moving...
Akram Zaatari
1956“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
Akram Zaatari
1957“These are negatives that were scratched because of a jealous husband from the Baqari family, who never let his wife out by herself...
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1960-1969
Akram Zaatari
1960“When you position your hand on someone’s shoulder, your shoulders become straight and horizontal...
Akram Zaatari
1966“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
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1970-1979
Akram Zaatari
1970“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
Luis Pazos
1971La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
Akram Zaatari
1972“The two men were relatives and both were in the Lebanese Army.” Hashem El Madani...
Gabriel Borba Filho
1975Gabriel Borba Filho was aware of what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic, and Untitled (Nos) is linked to both the social and political climates in Brazil and Spain during the Franco period...
Cecilia Vicuña
Drawing & Print
1977(Drawing & Print) Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design...
Antonio Ole
1978Antonio Ole’s Rhythm of N’gola Rhythms (1978), is a film about the struggle for Angolan political independence...
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1980-1989
Martha Araújo
1982In Habito/Habitante , the suspended material renders the wall a prison and the participant a prisoner...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 1980s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
Marion Scemama, David Wojnarowicz
1989Political artist, painter, writer, performer, photographer, David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992 in New York City, was one of the leading figures of the New York Downtown artistic scene of the 80s...
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1990-1999
Catherine Opie
1994Although best known as a provocateur and portraitist, Opie also photographs landscapes, cityscapes, and architecture...
Hong Hao
Drawing & Print
1995(Drawing & Print) Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s...
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2000-2009
Hong Hao
Drawing & Print
2000(Drawing & Print) Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s...
Peter Friedl
2001Peter Friedl’s projects place aesthetic questions within an expanded field that takes into account the social, political and philosophical context...
Humberto Diaz
2002The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005His Deck Painting I recalls the simplistic stripes of conceptual artist Daniel Buren, or the minimal lines of twentieth century abstract painting, but is in reality a readymade, fashioned from repurposed fabric of deck chairs...
Alexandre da Cunha
2005Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...
Pedro Reyes
2005In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste...
Harrell Fletcher
2005The American War , which takes its title from the Vietnamese term for what Americans call the Vietnam War, has toured the United States extensively with the goal of presenting a Vietnamese perspective of that history...
Nagendra Gurung
2005Chalis Katesi Ramaula is a series of 240 prints capturing Nagendra Gurung’s life, work, and colleagues from the construction sites where he has worked in Dubai and Saudi Arabia...
Colectivo Tercerunquinto
2006Escultura publica en la periferia urbana de Monterrey is a public sculpture on the periphery of the city of Monterrey...
Yael Bartana
2006Yael Bartana’s video work A Declaration was shot in southern Tel Aviv, on the visible border between that city and Jaffa...
Minerva Cuevas
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) During her research on primitive currencies and cultural cannibalism, Cuevas came across the Donald Duck comic book issue “The Stone Money Mystery,” where Donald goes on a quest to find missing museum objects...
Ceal Floyer
2007NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist...
Yael Bartana
2007Yael Bartana received great international attention for the trilogy series And Europe Will be Stunned (2007 – 2011)...
Ahmad Fuad Osman
2007Recollections of Long Lost Memories by Ahmad Fuad Osman is a series of 71 black and white sepia-toned archival photographs that chart, with nostalgia, the social encounters between hierarchies of life in the Malay world...
Jinoos Taghizadeh
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) Letter I Never Wrote is one of the most powerful series of Jinoos Taghizadeh...
Jonas Staal
2008Jonas Staal’s installation is based on the thesis written by Fleur Agema and titled “Closed Architecture”...
Nicoline van Harskamp
2008The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters...
Shilpa Gupta
2008The three monkeys in Don’t See, Don’t Hear, Don’t Speak are a recurring motif in Gupta’s work and refer to the Japanese pictorial maxim of the “three wise monkeys” in which Mizaru covers his eyes to “see no evil,” Kikazaru covers his ears to “hear no evil,” and Iwazaru covers his mouth to “speak no evil.” For the various performative and photographic works that continue this investigation and critique of the political environment, Gupta stages children and adults holding their own or each other’s eyes, mouths and ears...
Gao Mingyan
2008The television monitors utilized in the video installation Come On (2008) ostensibly serve as playback devices for a multi-channel installation of clips from blockbuster films as part of a larger commentary of mass entertainment and its relation to consumer cultures...
Gao Mingyan
2008In City Golf (2008) the artist Gao Mingyan films himself playing 18 “holes” of golf throughout the mega-city of Shanghai...
Charwei Tsai
2008Charwai Tsai’s photograph documents her Hermit Crab Project installation upon the construction site of gallery Sora in Tokyo...
Bani Abidi
2008The threshold in contemporary Pakistan between the security of private life and the increasingly violent and unpredictable public sphere is represented in Abidi’s 2009 series Karachi ...
Bani Abidi
2008The threshold in contemporary Pakistan between the security of private life and the increasingly violent and unpredictable public sphere is represented in Abidi’s 2009 series Karachi ...
Igor Grubic
2008366 Liberation Rituals is a series that gathers a number of actions related to the artist’s micro-politics...
Adrian Melis Sosa
2008In Cuba, due to the lack of materials, workers of state-owned construction companies must remain at work without doing anything, waiting for the end of the working day...
Jao Chia-En
200930 Proposals of Flag explores the relationships between signs, meanings, aesthetics, and nations...
Humberto Diaz
2009The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
Kennedy Browne
2009Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil is an installation based on 42 blank pages...
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...
Shilpa Gupta
2009In Untitled (Sword) , addressing histories of colonialism with abstraction, a large steel blade extends from the gallery wall...
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Alexandre da Cunha
2010In Laissez-Faire (Rainbow Flag) da Cunha has turned a beach towel into both a painting and a flag...
Võ An Khánh
2010In Extra Curriculum Political Science Class 7/1972 , a group of women walk bare-foot and single file towards Dat Mui Mangrove in Ca Mau Province to attend ‘political science class’...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Andrea Bowers
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
Brian Tripp
2010For many years Tripp has been involved in reviving Karuk ceremonies that had been discontinued for decades, he developed his signature abstract style, based in Karuk design, ceremonial regalia forms, and related cultural and political iconography...
Haegue Yang
2010In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...
Adrian Villar Rojas
2010The two drawings in the Kadist Collection are part of a larger series entitled Las Mariposas Eternas (The Eternal Butterflies)...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Jompet Kuswidananto
2011Third Realm (2011) grew out of the artist’s long-term research of Indonesia’s colonial history and the processes of modernization and urbanization that have taken place there...
Alexandre da Cunha
2011The series West (Flag 1), West (Flag 3), and West (Flag 6) continues da Cunha’s ongoing exploration of the form’s various vertical, horizontal, and diagonal stripes...
Pablo Rasgado
2011Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...
Karl Haendel
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Haendel’s series Knights (2011) is a set of impeccably drafted, nine-foot-tall pencil drawings depicting full suits of armor...
Eric Baudelaire
2011In a society saturated by images, Eric Baudelaire is interested in political events that have not found their representation...
Clarisse Hahn
2011Prisons is part of a series of videos, entitled Our Body is a Weapon , representing individuals who affirm the body as a place of political and social resistance...
Hayoun Kwon
2011Lack of evidence is the account of a Nigerian called Oscar exiled in France, which confronts a historical and social reality with a personal and intimate testimony...
Pedro Reyes
2012Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies...
Vincent Leong
2012The photograph Exquisite Eco Living is part of a larger series titled Executive Properties in which he digitally manipulated the images to insert iconic buildings of Kuala Lumpur in the view of derelict spaces also found in the city...
Adrian Villar Rojas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Based on historical prophecies and fantasy, the artist creates apocalyptic scenarios that posit an enigmatic world plagued by social, political, and environmental upheaval...
Rabih Mroué
2012The Pixelated Revolution is a lecture-performance by artist Rabih Mroué about the use of mobile phones during the Syrian revolution...
Bani Abidi
2012The perceived effortlessness of power, projecting above experiences of labored subordination is examined in Death at a 30 Degree Angle by Bani Abidi, which funnels this projection of image through the studio of Ram Sutar, renowned in India for his monumental statues of political figures, generally from the post-independence generation...
Asier Mendizabal
2012Rotation presents the image of a crowd, a re-appropriation of 19th or beginning of 20th century photographs published in newspapers and magazines...
Juan Carlos Alom
2012In Amantes (Lovers) Juan Carlos points his lens at his own environment, his underground (literally) studio in Havana...
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
2012This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...
Ícaro Lira
2012Icaro Lira has been developing the project “Museum of the Foreigner” since 2015, in which he recounts the trajectories of populations inside Brazil, from the north to the big cities of the south...
Amy Balkin
2012Data mining is a computer software process that can involve the neutral or benign analyzing of internet data for patterns, however, it can also imply the more sinister activities of surveillance or subject-based information gathering...
Yee I-Lann
2013Sarcastically titled to call attention to the problematic notions underlying colonialism, this photograph shows hundreds of Native Malaysians seated quietly behind one of their colonial oppressors...
Yao Jui-Chung
2013Long Long Live (2013) takes the viewer to the setting of the Oasis Villa on Green Island, once a reform and re-education prison to house political prisoners during Taiwan’s martial law period...
Burak Delier
2013Burak Delier’s sculpture Homage to Balotelli’s Missed Trick is a symbol of resistance to the demand for success and performance...
Regina José Galindo
2013In 2012, former Guatemalan President José Efran Ros Montt was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity; Regina José Galindo’s video Tierra is a chilling reimagining of the atrocities recounted during his trial...
Shahab Fotouhi
2013Shahab Fotouhi’s photographic series Establishing Shot; Interior, Night – Exterior, Day; without Antagonist and Extra consists of four C-prints that at first glance would appear to be travel posters for Iran, in that each features a beautifully shot image of an Iranian waterfall...
Nikita Kadan
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Ukraine is under tension due to the politics of President lanoukovitch since 2010...
Nikita Kadan
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Ukraine is under tension due to the politics of President lanoukovitch since 2010...
Eric Baudelaire
2013With the war-torn Beirut cityscape as its backdrop—urban alleys, glistening beaches, abandoned buildings—Eric Baudelaire’s complex film, The Ugly One , unfolds in a time and place that vacillates among revolutionary narratives of the past, the fragile and ever-changing political situation of the present, and attempts to piece together the memories of those that live, or once lived, in the city...
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
2014The single-channel video Myth of Modernity opens on historical representations of the universe in Thai Buddhist places of worship –pagodas, palaces and spirit houses...
Jesús Hdez-Güero
2014Minutos de odio contra sí mismo (Minutes of hate against itself) is a simple and powerful work about the political situation in Venezuela, replacing the stars on the flag with bullet holes...
Voluspa Jarpa
2014In her work, Fantasmática Latinoamericana, Jarpa works from photographs of five public funeral processions following the mysterious deaths of five Latin American presidents...
Som Supaparinya
2014When Need Moves the Earth is a three-channel video that combines elements of documentary footage, archival material and abstract aerial shots to encompass a painterly yet forthright exploration of a coal mine and a water dam in Thailand...
Carlos Motta
2014Searching for We’wha is composed of five photographic triptychs combining photographs from the American West (New Mexico and Arizona) with excerpts from American Indian poetry in an attempt to reconstruct imaginary aspects of the life of We’Wha, a famous member of the Zuni tribe, who was born male but who lived a feminine gender expression...
Samson Young
2014In Muted Situations #2: Muted Lion Dance by Samson Young, Chinese lion dancers perform the auspicious procession traditionally presented at special occasions such as weddings or during the Lunar New Year...
Baris Dogrusöz
2014The series of works gathered under the title Heure de Paris combines footage of Turkey from Turkish and French media reportage from the 1980s...
Shilpa Gupta
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory...
Michael Armitage
2015In “And so it is” shows the image of a faceless man before a microphone, ready to deliver an important message...
Andrea Bowers
2015Bowers’ Radical Hospitality (2015) is a sculptural contradiction: its red and blue neon letters proclaim the words of the title, signaling openness and generosity, while the barbed wires that encircle the words give another message entirely...
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano
2015There is no there by Gabriella and Silvana Mangano is a black and white looped video with sound, in conjunction with a live performance...
Elham Rokni
2015“The Wedding” is the centerpiece of a series of works centered on a film of the artist’s parents’ wedding in 1978, the year before the Iranian revolution that gave power to a religious fundamentalist regime...
Edgardo Aragón
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Mesoamericana (Economic activities) is part of a larger project titled Mesoamerica: The Hurricane Effect, which includes a video as well as series of hand drawn maps -based on historical cartography- that examine the effects of foreign power in Mexico today...
Lynn Hershman Leeson
2016Tania Libre is a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson centered around renowned artist Tania Bruguera and her experience as a political artist and activist under the repressive government of her native Cuba...
Cristóbal Lehyt
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Cristóbal Lehyt has conducted thorough research on the historical and cultural complexity of the northern region of Chile where the Atacama Desert is located...
Joaquín Segura
2016Pyre , an installation by Mexico City-based artist Joaquín Segura, addresses corruption, impunity, and the role that failed governments play in the normalization of violence...
Enrique Ramirez
2017Ramirez’s The International Sail is the fifth in a series that features an upside-down worn out, mended and fragmented boat sail...
Eric Baudelaire
2017Baudelaire’s latest film, Also known as Jihadi (2017) tells the story of a young French boy from Parisian suburbs and his assumed journey to the Al-Nusra front in Syria to join ISIS and fight Bashar al-Assad’s regime...
Mounira Al Solh
2017In 2011, Mounira Al Solh began a series of drawings that documented her meetings and conversations with displaced Syrian refugees in Lebanon and various European countries...
Sky Hopinka
2017Dislocation Blues by Sky Hopinka is a portrait of the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in South Dakota...
Karan Shrestha
2017After the decade-long conflict (1996-2006) that ended with Nepal becoming a Federal Democratic Republic, political unrest and weak governance continued to mark the country’s future as daily life repeatedly witnessed ruptures...
Baseera Khan
2017Designed by the artist and fabricated in collaboration with Kashmiri artisans in India, Baseera Khan’s Psychedelic Prayer Rugs combine visual iconography traditional to Islam, such as the crescent moon and lunar calendar, with brightly coloured symbols of personal significance to the artist: a pair of embroidered sneakers, a fragment of an Urdu poem, and the Purple Heart medal...
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
2017The word Coyolxauhqui refers to femicide or the killing of women in rural Mexico on the basis of gender...
Lim Sokchanlina
2017The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Lim Sokchanlina
2017The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Lim Sokchanlina
2017The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Sadie Barnette
2018Winfield St by Sadie Barnette depicts a seldom documented scene of men and boys in an intimate domestic setting...
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
2018In Guardian 2 Naufus Ramírez Figueroa explores the historical memory and political reality of the ruins of Kawinal, an archeological site of postclassic Mayan culture that was flooded in order to construct the hydroelectric dam of Chixoy in 1975 in a supposed effort to bring electricity to the country...
Lim Sokchanlina
2018The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Lim Sokchanlina
2018The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Lim Sokchanlina
2018The photographic series Wrapped Future II by Lim Sokchanlina brings fences used on construction sites to enclose the surrounding areas, to different locations, lakes, valleys and forests; and places them at the center of works to obscure the beautiful Cambodian landscape...
Tenzing Rigdol
2019Unhealed by Tenzing Rigdol is a photograph of the artist’s back tattooed with a map of Tibet with the dates of important political events...
Hana Miletic
2019Incompatibles (Unitas) is made from discarded samples of the yarns that are exported from Croatia and not actually available in the local market...
Gabriel Chaile
2019For the project Aguas calientes Gabriel Chaile exchanged silverware from three popular soup kitchens (mutual aid organizations to provide food for people in need) in Buenos Aires to brand new cooking utensils to shape his project...
Mandy El-Sayegh
2019Mandy El Sayegh grew up in a medicalized environment, surrounded by anatomy, biology and psychology publications; these books inspire the figures that appear throughout her work...
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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...
Pu Yingwei
2020ChinaCapital: Dream, Hot Land, Interstellar Colonization by Pu Yingwei addresses a complicated phenomena of intertwined influences from different political powers, capital forces, and ideologies in the reality of China...
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Paloma Contreras Lomas sometimes incorporates large scale drawing into her practice...
Ghita Skali
2020The Hole’s Journey by Ghita Skali follows a complex political satire involving a worn-out floor, a political activist, and the Ouled Sbita tribe of Morocco...
Runo Lagomarsino
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) On Fire by Runo Lagomarsino comprises twenty pieces of parchment, each of which has had the contours and map of Brazil burned in stages...
Runo Lagomarsino
2020Yo también soy humo (I am also smoke) is a 16mm film that has been digitized to video...
Sofía Córdova
2021Set some time in the future, Sofía Córdova’s multi-channel film installation GUILLOTINÆ Wanna Cry, Act Yellow: Break Room imagines a public that worships pop stars and revolutionary leaders equally...
Maya Watanabe
2021Maya Watanabe’s video installation Bullet unfolds within the context of the Peruvian justice and forensic systems...
Richard Bell
2022For Richard Bell, art is not simply a vehicle through which to represent and convey political content...
Agnieszka Kurant
2022For Sentimentite Agnieszka Kurant collaborated with Justin Lane, CEO and Co-Founder of CulturePulse, to gather global sentiment data that has been harvested from millions of Twitter and Reddit posts related to 100 seismic events in recent history...
Agnieszka Kurant
2022For Sentimentite Agnieszka Kurant collaborated with Justin Lane, CEO and Co-Founder of CulturePulse, to gather global sentiment data that has been harvested from millions of Twitter and Reddit posts related to 100 seismic events in recent history...
Agnieszka Kurant
2022For Sentimentite Agnieszka Kurant collaborated with Justin Lane, CEO and Co-Founder of CulturePulse, to gather global sentiment data that has been harvested from millions of Twitter and Reddit posts related to 100 seismic events in recent history...
