This work examines the politics of heritage. Inspired by a residency in Rome, these new works, Stop and Search, in gouache on gessoed board, carry these messages in a mosaic-like form. These texts emphasize the legalities that inform our political landscape and will be our bequest, which transcends potent messages across borders. I am building […]

Newcastle-born Amanda J. Kennington is a photographic artist who depicts well-known fairytales, ghost stories, or familiar daydreams through her photographic imagery. In many of her images, she exclusively constructs the scenes that she photographs using carefully chosen locations, models, costumes, and props. There is often a central character in Kennington’s narratives, which is frequently performed […]

Location is often influential to art scenes. Often young artists’ early work especially demonstrates this, with the artists responding to what immediately confronts them. The issue of location is at the roots of the group show, Underground on BROADWAY, at Broadway Gallery NYC in New York’s SoHo this past summer, with both artists and curator […]

The greater Near- and Middle East region has historically been at the vanguard of cultural activity in world civilization. Led by Iran and Turkey, this geographic expanse has long been considered a bastion of art and creativity. More recently, despite the most challenging of socio-political circumstances, we have witnessed a remarkable artistic and cultural revival, […]

My experience of living abroad marked a difference if compared with other artists in China. In their early works, these artists chose videography as a way to document performances; these actions were imbued with conceptual meanings, and the particular social environment in China at that time didn’t allow them to perform freely in front of […]

Our collaboration began, and has continued, as a process of giving each other “open” artworks for the other sibling to continue until it reaches what we feel to be a concluded state. The work is made often without conferring, with both of us preferring to discuss the work at either end of its creation. Once […]

When I saw that Einstein had said, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men,” I began researching Colony Collapse Disorder, a recent worldwide phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or […]

I curated Korean Eye: Moon Generation in 2009. The exhibition attracted over 250,000 visitors during its four months at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The driving force behind this initiative was Korean Eye co-founders, collectors David and Serenella Ciclitira, who wanted to create a platform on which contemporary artists from Korea could show their work […]

Serkan Özkaya, a conceptual artist based in Istanbul, has been showing since the age of 18. He is a provocateur, a utopianist, a kind of merry prankster in the tradition of Duchamp and the Dadaists, shuttling between the hyperbolic, the deadpan, and the serious, as he explores and expands the meaning of history, creativity and […]

“Estranged” refers to someone or something that was formerly close and no longer is. With a broad and holistic understanding of sexuality and sex, and after years of honest and stark introspection and reflection upon existence and society begins Estranged Sex: a work about a sexuality that is both strange and estranged, natural and alienated. […]