Author Archives: jolanta

When traveling in Paris, I have several times encountered the ghost of Eugene Atget, a master photographer much admired by surrealists. The artist has led me down those mysterious winding cobblestone streets of St. Germaine de Pres, past antique shops with windows full of mannequins and archaic tools.Atget tirelessly photographed the ancient precincts of Paris […]

I create erotic images and I enjoy doing so. I especially enjoy this work in Italy where, lately, public morals in terms of sexuality have been affected by a touch of intolerance and censorship, and not so far from the likes of that experienced back in the Middle Ages. Obviously, this is quite hypocritical and […]

Wai Kit Lam’s work is primarily concerned with the relationship of individuals to their immediate environment and questions the extent to which we are molded by our surroundings or whether it is, in fact, our surroundings that mold us. She uses large-format photography to present two apparently dissociated images on one sheet of aluminum. One […]

As a collective of three artists based in Ghent, Belgium, we have been creating work for the streets with sex as our main theme for some time. Because of our mutual interests and because we happen to share the same sense of humor when it comes to this particular subject matter, this extended project all […]

Manfredi Beninati’s painting is informed by cinema, photography and literature and, through it, he shows us the world of personal memory. Historically speaking, the artist’s paintings, installations and sculptures refer to the so-called “theatricalization” of visual arts, developed into international artistic production during the last 50 years. Artists such as Robert Wilson, Vito Acconci and […]

In his photographs, installations and video works, Carlo Ferraris’ art resonates with a strong theoretical underpinning that cannot be separated from his interdisciplinary approach to making art. However, Ferraris’ artworks are less about the dynamics of his medium—including photography, sculpture, video and their particular discourses—and more related to post-conceptual art’s potential for exploring a host […]

Why create? To shout. Why keep on creating after the Shoah? To keep on shouting and preventing another one. To say: a flower is not a flower, To say: nails in a block of concrete and some cobblestones around it can also be a flower. If you dare looking at, imagining and loving this pile […]

Most family histories today feature stories of migration and displacement, of foreign origins or relatives and friends scattered across the globe. The works of the young Dutch-Brazilian artist Pablo Pijnappel similarly address this phenomenon. Taking as their starting point the history of a single member of the artist’s own extended family, his films and slide […]

“Image-Nation: Works by a New Generation of Chinese Artists” is an exhibition reflecting the interests of a younger group of artists that no longer takes as their subject the political content that widely characterized the work of their predecessors of the 80s and early 90s. Political art has, at times recently, become a parody of […]