Author Archives: jolanta

Photographs are light, images cut from the present. They act as reports of a life, a perfect portrait. Photography is stealing the soul of things that are observed: expecting, idealistically, the perfect moment. To photograph is to falsify reality, to create a story, to tell a story. Many times it is false, old, and depicts […]

I am an interdisciplinary artist, using the mediums of photography, video, and new media as forms of expression. My work explores the nature of performance, reality, and the moments in between. I am interested in the conflict between what is being represented and what is, under closer observation, actually occurring. The Exit Series explores longing, […]

Possibly influenced by the cartoon culture, Xia Hang’s graduation project was a man in the form of a comma. In the three years he’s trying to enter an MA program, Xia developed this concept of the comma man with the support of the New Era Gallery. First, he made the comma man in stainless steel, […]

Mi-Lou series serves as a platform where issues related to city, prediction, and dream are discussed. It is a piece supported by a comprehensive framework, a project divided into three distinctive elements. The scenes took place sequentially in New York, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although I am often distracted by the minutia and seductions of daily […]

Debra Anderson: What does your show title mean, and how does it tie in with your work? Michael Mararian: The title is Phobia, Foibles, and Fiends, and it is a reexamination of my last show, Little Unfortunates. The works in this show all fall under one of the categories listed in the title. The subjects […]

Unfolding as a visual novel, After Nature depicts a future landscape of wilderness and ruins. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters. This exhibition brings together an international and multigenerational group of contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, […]

It was not until the 1990s that the world started noticing Chinese contemporary art. Within less than two decades, works from the ‘85 New Wave, Political Pop Art, and Cynical Realism periods drew attention across the globe and broke auction house records. Unlike the previous generation of artists whose market-friendly formula involves manipulating political symbols […]

I like to describe many of my recent projects as “science fiction ecologies,” suggesting that what is most important to me are the speculative potentials that circulate through an environment—the what-ifs and the parallel dimensions, real and potential traumas and erasures, reversals of scale and time course, and conflations of fictional and factual existence. My […]

The Forgotten series was created in the only preserved cemetery for Red Guards in China. This cemetery is located in a park in Chong-Qing. It is about 3,000 m2. There are 113 tombs of 500 Red Guards who died between 1967 and 1968 when a revolution broke out in Chong-Qing. They were members of the […]