Adrien Missika Work from Standing Waves and Postcards. Spend time on his website, the vast majority of his works are excellent. “Notions of authenticity and artificial images are at the heart of Missikaʼs work. He subtly explores the relationship between the viewer and the world and depictions thereof. While his works reflect the visual symbolism […]

Sam Taylor Wood Stills from Still Life. “Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed in the 16th and 17th centuries […]

Eric Baudelaire Stills from Sugar Water. I also recommend Site Displacement. “… Henri Bergson, who didn’t care much for cinema, wrote in “Creative Evolution” that in order to have an authentic intuition of duration, one had to experience it, and he took the example of sugar in a glass of water. The lesson seemed clear: […]

Letha Wilson Work from Photo Sculptures. “…Letha is very interested in the intersections between the natural world and architecture, specifically points in which these two areas are merged. Many of her previous artworks incorporates photography of the landscape with sculptural materials, or video work in which interior architecture is explored alongside images from the vast […]

Osamu James Nakgawa Work from Banta. “In Okinawa, the precipitous cliffs that fall hundreds of feet to the ocean below are called banta. For years I have carried with me a vivid memory of the first time I stood atop these cliffs—a memory of beauty in the endless blue expanse of sea and sky intensified […]

Arthur Ou Work from To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel. “To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel.” These three concepts define the German word “aufheben,” a term used by Walter Benjamin in his essay “Thesis on the Philosophy of History.” It seems fitting that the tri-fold meaning of this term would resonate in Arthur Ou’s work, […]

Glenn Ligon Work from his oeuvre. Ligon has an opening at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery tonight. “It’s late on the morning of the US presidential election, and Glenn Ligon is talking about Jasper Johns. “His notion that you take an object – or in my case a text – and do something to it and […]

Lance Wakeling Work from Sic, Notes from a keylogger and Parking at the Pentagon. “As we type and edit our attention jumps from paragraph to paragraph and from program to program, leaving a trail of disconnected phrases and commands. Much of what we type is deleted before the final product is saved, but the data […]

Gert Jan Kocken Work from Judenporzellan. “Street photographers have only a vague notion of what they’re looking for. But the moment the right situation does reveal itself, they recognise it immediately and leap into action. In the case of Dutch visual artist-photographer Gert Jan Kocken, the process is exactly the opposite. He knows what he’s […]

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