Author Archives: jolanta

Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in […]

My photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery, and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. The photographs are about the forms employed in narrative-based erotic art as contrasted with erotica crafted to merely to display the explicit. The work concerns the art of presentation, the mystery of anticipation, and the […]

A squatting person crouches his body, a red shadow cast on the ground, against a bright yellow backdrop. This is the work of artist Ma Yue. Ma uses this imagery and a unique language to speak for the common people, voicing their nightmares. Throughout the Squatting series, Ma’s special consideration for the ordinary people is […]

The most important part of my work is the translation of interior thought into narrative image. For quite a while, my paintings operated as a loose painted collage of images from photographs found in magazines. This involved lots of sifting through magazines, photocopying or ripping out pages, and looking for the right images to paint […]

Alice Anderson gazes into a fairy-tale mirror to question her past and her identity. She constructs “Freudian Tales” from situations or objects that recall her childhood, and awaken violent emotions within. Under a seductive and smooth appearance, her images speak of the cruelty of her family. In her photographs Screen Memories, she uses her imagination […]

Leah Oates: How did you find artists for this show, and what was the curatorial premise? Lesley A. Martin: Given that I had to basically curate this from my desk, I tried to work with ideas that are already on my mind, although I also tried to take the opportunity to do something I don’t […]

I like humoristic art, so I use this method to express my ideas. Sociology and urban anthropology are useful methods for observing humans in society. But when they try to explain the relation between human and society, logics of common language turn to become useless. This is the one of the main reasons I’ve chosen […]

There is a problem with architecture. It is always there; it is inflexible; it is wrong. The good thing about art is that it is always there; it is flexible, and it is right. As Wolfgang Weileder’s works emerge, they materialize as houses, then disappear. They don’t bully their way into existence as architecture does. […]

My work lives between the media of installation art, video installation, photography, and new media, depending on the nature of each project. In earlier artworks, I used contemporary media to reanimate sites with images of their own lost histories. More recently, in the past few years I have worked primarily with the moving image. I […]

Dual identities run deep throughout my entire body of work. I often perceive a suggestion of the other with every subject I photograph. The slip between the two spaces, along with projecting those dual identities to their creators as well as their spectators interests me the most.  For these photographs I wanted to use the […]