Author Archives: jolanta

Born in 1982 in Chongqing, China, Liu Jia is a very highly regarded sculptor in China today. At such a young age, Liu has already been recognized as probably the best sculptor in his generation, with a solo show at the Les Abattoirs, Modern and Contemporary Museum in Toulouse, France in 2006 where over 100 […]

The body is indeed beautiful, a container holding all flavors of life, a milestone marking all traces of time. God is the greatest artist. He created the human body—the most beautiful work of art. Yet humans are mindlessly leaving marks on their bodies. My body, having already lost its original look, is burdened with culture, […]

In my ideal world, art should be a mysterious garden. A garden that is filled with various exotic flowers and different kinds of aroma. People whose minds have been polluted could become clean again in such clear and fresh fragrance. There are multicolor flowers and orange bristle grass that could only be seen in your […]

I have always loved trees. I make donations to the San Francisco Friends of Urban Forest as wedding presents and in celebrations of births. I also donate trees in loving memory of friends who have died. Often I ask myself, “What will the world be like for generations to come?” If we can plant a […]

My work is an improbable fable consisted of the simplest stuff that people often ignore. I feel sentimentality about time and the circusy nature of romance is something fantastical. I’m not interested in simplistic or pretentious romanticism. What interests me is something like a subtle feeling that strikes when I see a gold-plated cloisonne carelessly […]

Expose You, the latest sculptural series by Cao Hui, is characterized by a vivid imagery of animals like gorillas, pigs, cows, and sheep. The visual aspect of these animal sculptures have been exaggerated and magnified through impersonation, which renders the animals similar to the typical sculpture in classical art. At the same time his work […]

The life of an artist is one of constant negotiation with uncertainty. The financial market thrives on overcoming and subduing uncertainty. Throughout history, in times of global economic and social uncertainty like those we are currently undergoing, it is the creative community and individuals who are motivated to propose and work through new ideas that […]

I am constantly, in a high-and-low search for feelings for a new birth, feelings expressing me, and are expressed by me. Owning the metaphoric presence of signs, symbols, and elements constitutes the existentiality of my recollections, memory of locations and instances. These factors interact only to multiply, bind, and repel, massively, forming walls of paintings […]

Coming from a multidisciplinary background involving landscape architecture, fine arts, and theory, I work in an interdisciplinary style involving photography and installation. Identity and “land” or “landscape as subject,” and the territory where various idea battles are fought have been the primary aspects of my work. The series Genius Loci (2003, Egypt) is an investigation […]

Cairo-based artist Huda Lutfi has been excavating the bedrock of her city for years. In the public repositories of a metropolis layered with its own tangible remnants of memory, Lutfi engaged as both archaeologist and archivist, collecting and exploring with the eye and expertise of a cultural historian—her formal training—long before the artifacts found their […]