Author Archives: jolanta
Varda Carmeli
Varda Carmeli’s current exhibition Triple Exposure" in the "Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, in Berlin, Germany, contains a series of three photographs Varda Carmeli Varda Carmeli’s current exhibition Triple Exposure" in the "Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, in Berlin, Germany, contains a series of three photographs: Beijing – An Image About to Change, Placards and Whispering Smoke. Varda is a […]
Maria Luisa Imperiali
Like an alchemist, I put together simple, often-childish images, in order to achieve new meaning and look for a new sign. Maria Luisa Imperiali Like an alchemist, I put together simple, often-childish images, in order to achieve new meaning and look for a new sign. So I came to a no man’s land where […]
Ellen Pieck
Ellen Pieck was born in 1951, in Haarlem, Netherlands. She first expressed her artistic sensibility through interior Ellen Pieck Ellen Pieck was born in 1951, in Haarlem, Netherlands. She first expressed her artistic sensibility through interior decorating and patchworks made of silk, cotton, pearls and broidery. Throughout the years and the various seminars, conferences and […]
The War of the Senses
Joël Andrianomearisoa is 20. He hasn’t had time to have a professional past yet, but he does have a past, even though his young teenage body could lead you to believe otherwise. At the age of 20 you know how to refuse, especially when circumstances and your own desires give you a step back from […]
Cinematic Renderings
I graduated high school in 2001 and from there achieved my associate’s degree in graphic design/digital graphics in 2003 from a local community college. Immediately afterward I began my bachelor of arts degree at New Mexico State University, but stopped after one year for many reasons. Since experimenting with film photography as a teenager and […]
Forming Alliance
Showtime is meant as a series of events that will happen every two months in Shanghai inviting artists to explore possibilities of performance art under different themes that myself and artists find important after discussions. Performance art as a main activator of new ideas through development of Chinese contemporary art in the last ten years […]
Undetectable Grooming
Avi Davis: This will be an interview about art generated (largely) by interviews. So we’re operating with the ghosts of a lot of interviews looking over our shoulders. Did you ever feel like this was a commentary on the interview form, that the art is interviewing (or interrogating or commenting on) the interview that generated […]
From Body to Media
It took Qu Zhi-Hang eight years to finish the series See and Be Seen. It seems kind of random and ridiculous that this group of work has attracted so much attention in 2008, a special period of time that belongs to China. With much contemplation, however, one would realize the randomness is inevitable. It’s a […]
Brushing It In
Agnès Pezeu meets me with a wide smile, her long golden hair flowing. Her studio has the shape of a half moon. Canvases are hung like tapestries; others are rolled on the floor. She pulls out of the shelf her sketchbook. A series of heads drawn in charcoal appears on the page. In an ample […]
Hole of Desire
This year, aside from my collaborative projects, I have been making black photographs. The photographs are printed black from 4-by-5 negatives. Although no image can be seen in the print, the content is described in the titles: Woman Waiting (referencing a Faith Wilding piece), Two Friends at Home (referencing a Diane Arbus photograph of lesbians), […]
