Basim Magdy Work from Someone Tried to Lock Up Time. “In the new series Someone Tried to Lock Up Time, Basim Magdy combines recognized objects of history with a poetic mysticism that invokes both alienation and a feeling of familiar complicity. The text acts like a measure of time, be it a philosophical exploration of […]

Naoya Hatakeyama Work from Tsunami Trees. “Tsunami Trees, which Hatakeyama has been working on since 2018 and has culminated in a photobook in 2024, is a group of works documenting the trees and landscapes left behind on the Pacific coast that retain the traces of the tsunami. In 2017, six years after the Great East […]

Gohar Dashti Work from Land/s. “Regardless of who we are, our lives are layered and richly textured with physical and figurative uprooting(s) and migrations. On one of my trips, an immigrant friend asked me to take a postcard back to her family in our country of origin (Iran); on the front of the postcard was […]

Sander Coers Work from POST. “POST explores the intersection of constructed memories and perceptions of masculinity in visual culture through the use of AI-generated imagery. With this project, I aim to investigate the role of photography in shaping our perceptions of the past and question its authenticity in the age of digitalism where memories can […]

Y. Malik Jalal Work from his oeuvre. “Y. Malik Jalal (b. 1994, Savannah, Georgia) utilizes traditional craft and collage techniques to explore themes of Black history, power and humanity. By merging materials like steel and iron with an index of found photos depicting Black American family life in unexpected and intimate moments, he addresses the […]

Ilanit Illouz Work from The Memory of Landscape. “For me, Ilanit Illouz is not an artist but an archaeologist. Like an intrepid excavator, she travels through the landscape, walking the desert in search of what is hidden, undiscovered. In a certain way, her research-driven approach is no different from that of an archaeologist—demonstrating an equal […]

Torkwase Dyson Work from A Liquid Place. “Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black […]

Jasmine Clarke Work from Shadow of the Palm. ” When I look in the mirror, I want to believe that what I am seeing is an extension of myself even though I know that it isn’t. I’m seeing a reflection (an illusion) of me and my world. I can never quite trust a mirror. A […]

In Regards to Nostalgia at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Works by Mark Albain, Jesse Ly, and Aubrey Theobald. Curated by Sso-Rha Kang, text via Under Main Magazine by C.M. Turner. In October, the Art Academy of Cincinnati’s Pearlman Gallery opened In Regards to Nostalgia, an interdisciplinary group show exploring the poetics and complexities of […]

Nikhil Chopra Works from him oeuvre. “Nikhil Chopra works at the boundaries between theatre, performance, live art, painting, photography and sculpture. He devises fictional characters that draw on India’s colonial history as well as his own personal history. He inhabits these characters in largely improvised performances that last up to 3 days. Chopra’s character, Sir […]