Author Archives: jolanta

When you first walk into Hun Gallery the giant windows that overlook West 33rd Street appear like some ethereal stage production. The space, which features a large main gallery and an adjacent smaller gallery, is in an especially auspicious location in midtown Manhattan. Promise Cecilia Muhlstein Suha Sin, Threshold – The edge of time, 2002. […]

Samuel Beckett’s masterwork, Waiting for Godot, is easier to parody than to describe and devilish to enact. It’s about loneliness and abandonment, about time and memory, in the famous wisecrack, it’s about "nothing happening twice." More respectfully, Godot is an utterly spellbinding and sad poem of our human dilemma, as moving now as when it […]

The Starn twins began their careers by expanding the possibilities of photography. They revealed a truth that was never spoken of in polite circles: the fact that a photographic image is on a support made of paper. They folded, ripped and taped their photos to reveal the true nature of the medium, and they then […]

When walking into Galerie Lelong to see Alfredo Jaar’s most recent work, one immediately notices something missing. In the heart of Chelsea, in a gallery surrounded by other galleries that present themselves as temples of modern art, there is strangely almost nothing on the walls or any freestanding sculptures. Muxima Andrzej Lawn Alfredo Jaar, Muxima, […]

First exhibited in 2003 at the Station Museum in Houston, Texas, Made In Palestine has found a new venue here in New York City. Drawing over 3,000 viewers in just three weeks, the collection of Palestinian artwork comes at a time when a Hamas-led government has taken over the Palestinian Authority, and calls to completely […]

"Errr… I’m not sure I totally understand what you guys do." is something we often hear, particularly with respect to our media remixing work using audiovisual sampling. Most people understand about music and sound samples; but when you add moving images into the mix, it seems to confuse matters. Addictive TV Courtesy of artist "Errr… […]

São Paulo-based, Edouard Fraipont produces a series of phantasmagoric photographs which explore re-conceptions of body and self. Through negotiations of time and light inherent to the photographic medium he creates an enquiry in to the ways in which a being can distance itself from its existence as a unit. The Odd Geometry that is Time […]

Seine Fotos scheinen oft unwirklich, beinahe wie gemalt. Wir betrachten vermeintlich irreale Szenen aus der angeblich bizarren Welt des Fetisch und Sadomasochismus. Illusorisch und dabei gnadenlos demaskierend erzählt er uns Geschichten. Man sich fragt, ob es behagt und ob man den dargestellten Fantasien wirklich erlegen sein muss, um den erotischen Reiz der Bilder wahrhaftig zu […]

Neil Hamon’s work evokes a variety of distinct ambiguous and implicitly dubious feelings. "In general terms, I’m interested in our relationship with loss and how we are lured into creating fictions or narratives in an attempt to overcome it," he states. Based on solid research, meticulous construction and more recently presented in a cinematographic approach, […]

Jeph Gurecka has his eye on the bigger picture. While some of his artwork could be aligned with an aggressive, counter-cultural attitude, it all nonetheless speaks to human concerns such as the cycle of life, the role of memory and nostalgia. Gurecka typically works with media already invested with conventional significance, but that also resonate […]