The beating heart is warm, soft, and vulnerable. It is protected in the rib cage consisting of twenty-four ribs. We announce the end of a life by the sentence “His/her heart stopped beating,” which shows the importance of the heart. The heart is amazing, although it’s only an organ of the human body. We say […]

Most of my work is inspired by my experience of everyday life. I recently saw a film Trivial Matters directed by Peng Hao-Xiang, who based this movie on his personal life and his friends’ experiences, which I found very moving. “All you need is tension,” Peng said. “If there’s tension, then you only need a […]

From 2002 to 2004 I have done three pieces of work, drawing inspiration from my sexuality. They are My Emotions and Sex, The Great Wall and Races. The three pieces support each other and show the progression of my thoughts. I wanted to demonstrate the different structures in society through portrayal of diverse subject matters. […]

The Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Miami presented the work of Grimanesa Amorós in the exhibition You Cannot Feel it…I Wish You Could. This multimedia exhibition was a combination of sculpture, lighting and music composed by the nine-time Grammy nominated musician, Meshell Ndegeocello. Eleven handmade paper sculptures cast from the artist’s pregnant body explore the […]

The Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Miami presented the work of Grimanesa Amorós in the exhibition You Cannot Feel it…I Wish You Could. This multimedia exhibition was a combination of sculpture, lighting and music composed by the nine-time Grammy nominated musician, Meshell Ndegeocello. Eleven handmade paper sculptures cast from the artist’s pregnant body explore the […]

The utopian promise of improvement celebrated during the heyday of modernity has devolved in the postmodern digital age to a detachment from real life and lived experience. The discontent that underlies the generations born into the fast-faced contemporary world has become the main subject of my work. My series Aphasia explores these feelings of alienation […]

My photographs fuse a gothic sensibility with performative elements and traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment. My most recent project was shot while on solitary kayaking and hiking trips along the Delaware River Valley, using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many works, traces of […]

In 1946, when Chairman Mao’s forces broke their truce with Chiang Kai-Shek’s and began battling once again for political control of the country, no one in China could have predicted what their homeland would look like 60 years later: a landscape where high-rise apartments are steadily replacing old family compounds, where newly purchased cars are […]

For his fourth exhibition at New York’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery, photographer Juergen Teller presented his recent body of work entitled Ukraine. Along with four other artists, Teller was commissioned by the PinchukArtCentre to interpret the country for the 52nd International Venice Biennale 2007, where a selection from this series was first shown.  The New York […]

The first time I went to a reenactment pageant, I didn’t know exactly what I was going to see, but I had been told that people in a small town in Wyoming had been dressing up like settlers and Indians, and acting out a story from the pioneer era since the 1940s. I decided to […]