Carter’s Notions of Self-Identity (and Identification)
In his complex collaged paintings, Carter depicts abstract silhouettes emerging from landscapes of paint, each brush stroke meticulously cut out and placed on the canvas, creating a hybrid of [...]
Akram Zaatari: The Legacy of an Identity
Akram Zaatari is a video artist and curator who lives and works in Beirut. Author of more than 30 videos, and video installations, Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent to Lebanese postwar [...]
The Naughty Smirk of a Vivisectionist: Jean-Luc Moulène
Jean-Luc Moulène’s practice is often-loaded with a mix of subjects, mediums, and contexts that convey his primary concern of the relationship between objects and images. Through metaphors, visual [...]
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Self-portraits of improvisation, transformation and decay
Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968) is one of the most important conceptual artists of his generation to come out of the vibrant art scene in Mexico. Over the past 10 years, Cruzvillegas has developed [...]
Anri Sala: When Sound speaks to History and Memory
Sound and music have always played an important role in the work of Anri Sala. Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1974, Sala creates works mixing images, sound and architecture, shown in exhibits he [...]
Wilfredo Prieto: A poetically Minimalistic Outlook
Using absurdity as a strategy to entangle his viewer, Wilfredo Prieto disrupts the public space or gallery through objects and interventions, which combine humor with critical reflection on the [...]
Raffi Kalenderian: Beyond the temporal and spatial limits
For Raffi Kalenderian, portraying a person provides him various options and directions to choose from: observation versus distortion, fact versus fiction, investigating the psychology of the [...]