I feel that my art is an uninhibited territory for me. It’s kind of like pulling the dinner table cloth from under expensive porcelain, and watching a big colorful mess taking place, playing with the velocity of time and watching the different stages of a creative disarray. While on a still frame, all stages look […]

I was born in Fujian, China in 1977. I moved to Hong Kong with my mother in 1984. When I first moved there, I couldn’t understand Cantonese or English, so I had to drop two grades and started from kindergarten. The language, my age, and my identity made me feel different than everyone else, and […]

Born into a place is one case. Living there means choosing it and adapting to it. I am Loredana Longo. I was born in Sicily and live there today, a beautiful place of strong character, full of contradictions like the south of Italy and the south of Europe. As an artist, I feel this tension. […]

I grew up in New Orleans, a city that provides a perfect setting for my paintings; it’s a place where visual extremes are part of the landscape. A marriage chapel and a strip joint share a common wall. The equestrian of the war lord Andrew Jackson stands across from the peace-inducing St. Louis Cathedral. Elegant […]

I have been engaged in contemporary art for over ten years, working with a variety of media and different experimental approaches, ranging from performance, installation, photography, video, and painting. Generally, I start from the objectivity of the body and the falseness of identity, carrying on research on issues of authenticity that are related to the […]

I see my work as a process of a constant production of the self. I work with different levels of my identity: nationality, gender, age, education, as I would with tools or instruments. I try to use and adapt them, continuously questioning their predetermined limits and possibilities. These often become categories, labels in which I […]

Lindsay Cuff: When I look at your body of work, there seems to be an explicit sense of movement from one state to another. The figures seem to hang in a suspended moment, as if, instead of trying to capture something as it is, you capture it as it is becoming. The process of transmorphing […]

Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau’s work, Painting China Now (2007), is the starting point for their new work, Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality, and Museum Quality. Painting China Now is a collection of 30 oil paintings depicting violence inflicted by the Chinese government on Falun Dafa members. The paintings were rendered with […]

Curiously drawn by the immediate, Michele Bressan has compiled and reared a personal aesthetic in these passing Romanian scenes. In his four years of activity as a photographer he attained a firm and thorough documentation of a barefaced, yet unobserved local life. His pictures may appear frank in their depicting of everyday viewing, but it’s […]

A long time ago, I was an activist. An animal-rights activist. When I went to art school, I failed to convince myself what I was doing with my work was necessary. It can be useful, but it was not necessary. One day I found myself weeping over my images of animals suffering in cages, and I […]