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 […]

Bas Ketelaars Work from Edges of Landscape. “Edges of Landscape is the result of a (analogue) photographical exploration of natural areas within Europe with a focus on textures and surfaces in nature. The publication combines these photographs with drawings based on landscapes at different scales.” – Bas Ketelaars Related posts: Tatiana Grigorenko Awoiska van der […]

Ronni Campana Work from Badly Repaired Cars. “Campana’s photo book is an artful documentation of cars, trucks, and other vehicles that have undergone DIY improvements in east London. Close up, angular photographs shows cars ingeniously—or depending on your outlook, amateurly—patched up and held together by tape, cardboard, glue, and plastic. The images in the publication […]

Joanna Wierzbicka Work from Soft Gut Lining. “In an age where conspiracy theories and technological paranoia permeate discourse, the boundary between justified concern and irrational fear grows increasingly blurred. These three artists probe this territory by presenting works that embody mechanisms of deception and surveillance. … Joanna Wierzbicka’s soft, flesh-like sculptures present bodies in constant […]

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 […]

Andreas Greiner (co-produced with Daan Lockhorst) Work from Jungle Memory. “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DEEP LEARNING REEXAMINE LANDSCAPE PAINTING / Custom programmed and trained CycleGAN and computer vision algorithms. Due to anthropogenic climate change causing higher temperatures, drought and better living conditions for tree pathogens, forests are endangered worldwide. Jungle Memory seeks to archive this ephemeral […]

Bryan Schutmaat Work from Islands of the Blest. “I’ll come back to you in the hour of basalt and copper, back like floodwater pressing its shoulder against the ribs of the valley. When I rub bear fat into my boots a star disappears and the bones in my hand become a set of gears bringing […]

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 […]

Joachim Koester Work from their oeuvre. There is also a great overview of Koester’s work from Nicolai Wallner. “Joachim Koester uses strategies of montage, archiving and storytelling to illuminate and complicate historical events that form a collective mythical construction of the recent past. His works explore the legacies and mine the fictions that form around […]

Dione Lee Work from Trap and Lean-to at Lightwork. “Oakland, California-based artist Dionne Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as both a place of refuge and tranquility, but also the location of racial […]