Precious Okoyomon Work from To See the Earth Beyond the End of the World. “Precious Okoyomon – poet, artist, and chef – stages sculptural topographies composed of living, growing, decaying, and dying materials, including rock, water, wildflowers, snails, and vines. For Okoyomon, nature is inseparable from the historical marks of colonisation and enslavement. In their […]

Jumana Manna Work from Break, Take, Erase, Tally. “This ongoing series of ceramic sculptures explores a tension between preservation and ruination. Their forms draw from the khabya, a once common structure for grain storage in rural houses across the Levant. Built into homes, the khabya–which means “the thing that hides” in Arabic–would preserve the annual […]

David Noel Work from Tactical Aesthetic. “Close Encounters with Tactical Aesthetic is a participatory installation that guides viewers through various tactical scenarios.” – David Noel Related posts: Lorena Molina James Richards New Media Lecture Series – Jennifer Chan Cayetano Ferrer

Lisa Barnard Work from The Canary and the Hammer. “Photographed across four years and four continents, The Canary and The Hammer details our reverence for gold and its role in humanity’s ruthless pursuit of progress. Through a mix of image, text and archival material, the third book by British artist Lisa Barnard provides a fascinating […]

An-My Lê Work from Small Wars. “At first glance, the photograph Small Wars (rescue) (1999–2002), appears to capture a frantic moment during a tense battle: A helicopter has been grounded and seems to have crashed, since smoke is pouring from its hull. A man in a camouflage uniform kneels on the ground, rifle cocked, prepared […]

Theo Triantafyllidis Work from his Role Play (and others). “In this new body of work, Theo Triantafyllidis re-imagines the gallery space as his own virtual studio. He embodies an Ork avatar, who uses digital tools to create 3D forms, which are then manifested physically as large-scale wood sculptures. This process is recorded through DIY Motion […]

Lucy Raven Stills from “China Town” “China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to “be wired” and in turn, to be connected, in today’s global economic system, […]

Sherwin Rivera Tibayan Work from Installation Views. “After viewing many gallery and artist sites over the last few years, I became interested in the common photographic practice of installation views. These installation views (also called exhibition views) exist strictly as a class of images that provide proof for the material reality of specific works. Although […]

Ben Van Den Berghe Work from The Handshake Society. “Handshake Society is the outcome of an ungoing interest in power relationships between people, focussing on the – decisive – moment on which people shake hands. I reframe found images and place them in a personal archive. By cropping these frames I try to eliminate the […]