Archives for posts tagged ‘photography’

Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter Work from Fragments of Time Past at Gagosian, Athens. “Gagosian is pleased to announce Fragments of Time Past, an exhibition of new work by Vera Lutter featuring photographs of Attica’s ancient architecture, together with her images of the Greek temples of Paestum, Italy, and of classical statues housed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum […]

Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace Work from Ian Wallace at Hauser & Wirth, London. “A poet of images, Ian Wallace explores the interplay between form and content, using photography as a vehicle for developing an avant-garde art that weds the strategies of conceptualism with the pictorial tropes of painting. In doing so since the late ’60s, he became […]

Idris Khan

Idris Khan Work from Overture at Sean Kelly, New York. “Overture will present over 25 new works exploring philosophical and theoretical ideas surrounding global displacement and conflict, demonstrating Khan’s profound interrogation into language and meaning over a wide array of media. Khan has developed a unique narrative drawing on diverse cultural sources including art, literature, […]

Ken Gonzales-Day

Ken Gonzales-Day Work from Erased Lynchings. “The Erased Lynching series is an artist project that was intended to draw attention to the historic absence of Latinx, Asian, Native American victims from the history of lynching in California and has since extended to instances across the nation as a way address the erasure of African American […]

Shannon Ebner

Shannon Ebner Work from A Public Character at Sadie Coles HQ. “A PUBLIC CHARACTER is a newly commissioned work for ICA Miami, where Ebner’s solo exhibition of the same title is on view until 17 January. It centres on text culled by Ebner following research into Hudson Yard’s real estate project – a rezoning of […]

Basim Madgy

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 […]

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon Work from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. “In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon compiles an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through the documentation of subjects from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, […]

Lotus L. Kang

Lotus L. Kang Work from Borne at Esther Schipper, Berlin. “Lengths of unfixed industrial film, ‘skins’ as Kang refers to them, are draped over and across raw steel tubes suspended from the ceiling. The shadowy impressions on the film create layered, visceral timescales, rendered in a palette of yellow, orange, red, purple and brown. By […]

Nguyen Phuong Linh

Nguyen Phuong Linh Work from Sanctified Clouds. “Almost 200 small masses of Sanctified Clouds fly over the wall, foam beautifully and shine in a blue hue, the blue of peace, Oriental ceramics, and sacred mosaic paintings in Arabic temples. However, looking closely, we realize that these soft white are not clouds, but actually the masses […]

Naraphat Sakarthornsap

Naraphat Sakarthornsap Work from his oeuvre. “…In many of his works, Naraphat Sakarthornsap presents stories of inequality in the society and gender discrimination through photography and installation art, in which flowers play the leading roles. Many kinds of flowers that Naraphat uses usually comes with profound meanings. Those flowers have become the keys to finding […]