© Meryl McMaster, Sentience, from the series In-between worlds, 2010 © Meryl McMaster, Viage, from the series In-between worlds, 2010 “In-Between Worlds explores the mixing and transforming of my bi-cultural identities – Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian – and addresses the idea of liminality; of being betwixt and between cultural identities and histories. The series presents a…
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© Jinyoung Kim, work in progress, 2011 © Jinyoung Kim, work in progress, 2011 More of his work can be seen here
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© Simone Donati, Angela, Angelo and their 3 daughters having breakfast in the kitchen-living room made from an old stall. This is a temporary place before their new house will be ready, from the project Valley of Angels © Simone Donati, The three sisters, Hybla, Lua and Siria, outside the new house, from the project…
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© Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, © Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, “Through the stories I have collected of my childhood memories, I decided to honour my heritage and follow the path of a Yachaj. A Yachaj is a healer, half jaguar/half human, a medicine person, a shaman.” More of Karen’s work here
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© Sylvie Bonnot, Untitled, from the project Corps du Dessin, 2010 © Sylvie Bonnot, Untitled, from the project Corps du Dessin, 2010 “Je me pose la question du toucher et de l’empreinte. Mes Dessins de Papier sont mes pierres et mes icebergs ; les photographier c’est vivre un autre contact physique avec les lieux et…
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© Anna Brennan, Untitled, from the project A Framework, ongoing © Anna Brennan, Untitled, from the project A Framework, ongoing “My images explore the idea of a social fabrication. I’m interested in how society seems to have become a cultural construction; how we are each somehow modelled into ourselves, entirely influenced by unseen precepts as…
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┐ Alena Zhandarova └
© Alena Zhandarova, Untitled, from the project Cornflower tea and chocolate © Alena Zhandarova, Untitled, from the project Cornflower tea and chocolate AZ’s work here
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┐ Nikita Pirogov └
© Nikita Pirogov, Sofa, from the project The Other Shore © Nikita Pirogov, Hands, from the project The Other Shore © Nikita Pirogov, Semeon, from the project The Other Shore The Other Shore is a media project that is in progress and which I have been working on for three years. It consists of photography,…
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┐ Andrei Liankevich └
© Andrei Liankevich, Untitled, from the series Fake animals © Andrei Liankevich, Spike of wheat, from the series Pagan culture in belarus, 2008-2010 More of Andrei’s work here
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┐ Daria Tuminas └
© Daria Tuminas, Untitled, from the series Ivan and the Moon © Daria Tuminas, Untitled, from the series Ivan and the Moon © Daria Tuminas, Untitled, from the series Ivan and the Moon “Ivan is the elder, he is 16. Andrey, nicknamed Moon, is the younger, 14 by now. The two brothers live in a…
Read More“Finding one’s voice isn’t just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others …”, he said
“The surrealists believed that objects in the world possess a certain but unspecifiable intensity that had been dulled by everyday use and utility. They meant to reanimate this dormant intensity, to bring their minds once again into close contact with the matter that made up their world. André Breton’s maxim “Beautiful as the chance encounter…
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┐ Gillian Mairi Alexander └
© Gillian Mairi Alexander, Woman with Strawberry Laces for Hair, 2011 © Gillian Mairi Alexander, Of This Earth, 2011 © Gillian Mairi Alexander, Dusting, 2011 Installation view: The Icing Table, Dusting, The Crowning of The Cake Princess and Of This Earth, Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011 “Long has been my adoration for cake.…
Read More“Their art turns in on itself, becoming nothing more than coded language”, he said
“I went to Venice, and I came back worried. (…) many times over — too many times for comfort — I saw the same thing, a highly recognizable generic institutional style whose manifestations are by now extremely familiar. Neo-Structuralist film with overlapping geometric colors, photographs about photographs, projectors screening loops of grainy black-and-white archival footage,…
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© Pierre Devin, Mondego 94, 1994 Colecção Nacional de Fotografia © Centro Português de Fotografia
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┐ Léonie Hampton └
© Léonie Hampton, Untitled, from the series Autonomy, the Cariou Family – France © Léonie Hampton, Untitled, from the series Autonomy, the Cariou Family – France The Cariou family Live an autonomous life in Provence. Faced with the huge cost of property in their area they were fortunate to buy a small olive grove in…
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Greece: Post #2 Kanellos, the Greek protest dog © Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Greece Economy crisis © Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Greece Economy crisis “The economic crisis in Greece has sparked riots and violent reactions. Massive protests broke out against severe government spending cuts aimed at saving the country from economic collapse. Thousands…
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Greece: Post #1 Costas Douzinas’ article on the Guardian: In Greece, we see democracy in action © Milos Bicanski, from the series Indebted Greece © Milos Bicanski, from the series Indebted Greece More of Milos’ work here
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┐ Marikel Lahana └
© Marikel Lahana, Herbert, from the series Fictions aptères, 2009 © Marikel Lahana, Cygne, from the series Fictions aptères, 2009 More of Marikel’s work can be seen here
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┐ Raquel Mendes └
© Raquel Mendes, Untitled, 2006 © Raquel Mendes, Still Life I, 2007 How often do we speak of nakedness as if it were a kind of truth, the naked truth? “Why do those who abandon clothes to pursue their leisure and recreation call themselves naturists? Are nakedness, nature and truth inseparable? Stripping naked, Georges Bataille…
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┐ Erin M. Perfect └
© Erin M. Perfect Untitled, from the series Suspending Belief © Erin M. Perfect Untitled, from the series Suspending Belief More of Erin’s work here
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