Tag Archives: Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Tracing Identity with Namsa Leuba
Emese Krunak-Hajagos: The topic for this year’s Contact Festival is Identity, involving ancestry, history and society, and how the individual’s sense of self is shaped by them. How do you feel about your mixed African-European background? Namsa Leuba: I think to be a mix of cultures is a great wealth. I am an African-European, born […]
Meryl McMaster: In-Between Worlds
The claws of a big brown and white animal hugging a tree trunk—that was the first image I saw from Meryl McMaster a few years ago. The figure was completely hidden behind the tree. Was it hiding from some predator? Or was it a predator itself, ready to fly up and attack us in the […]
Gillian Iles: You Can Only Get There From Here
The title itself is a little bit strange. Where is here and where is there? Why does anyone want to get from here to there? Stepping into Red Head Gallery we come face to face with a combination of nerve and wit, a painting of a large dark tunnel that seems ready to swallow us. […]
