Author Archives: jolanta

The Georgian splendor of Asia House in London’s West End recently played host to the work of the 40 year old Burmese artist, Htein Lin. Lin was an established comic, performance artist, and contemporary artist before his arrest in 1998 by the Orwellian sounding S.L.O.R.C. or State Law and Order Restoration Council, and given a […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: Last fall you had your first solo show The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the New Darkness at Marvelli Gallery in New York City. How did that feel? How did the audience receive it? Margaux Williamson: It felt ok. Growing up, I saw art mainly in art books, or Laurie Anderson at the hippy […]

The exhibition False, organized by Platform China, talks about the spread of falseness as an active element in our life. In contemporary China, as the pace of the society development is increasing, people feel the need to use culture-related things to guard themselves against the tide of this development, which breeds a pseudo-culture. As people […]

The human condition has been the main source of motivation in my art. I draw from the human circumstances that flourish between reality and perception. Born and raised in Korean myth culture and adopting Buddhist philosophy, I assume that the world we are living in is not real. It is merely an illusion that we […]

I’m interested in strong contrasts–generally everywhere–in particular, in art. I really like to mix everything myself…in my mind, in my art. I’ve been interested in alchemy, occultism, and esotericism since I was young. I really like using sexual imagery, especially freakish dark sexual imagery in my artworks, because I like to play with all I […]