Images of the human form have a long history in photographic practice, and with a few notable exceptions it has predominantly been the male gaze upon the naked female body. This pattern has been preserved up until today in the form of the classic black-and-white photographic nude. Nudity, of course, is an amazingly loaded topic […]

To be in the company of the artist, Loveariel, preparation is a must. First, you should start by keeping a vampire’s hours. Loveariel peaks creatively when most of her peers who share the Surry Hills studio have packed up and left for the evening. Second, you should read up on matters of the occult, the […]

In this interview, Mao Xu-Hui, important participant of ’85 New Wave, primary organizer of New Figurative Movement and Southwest Art Research Group, talks about the essential reason for his consecutive experiments and change of painting languages since the beginning of his artistic creation in 1973. That is to respect history, to respect individual survival experience, […]

At the invitation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropriated identities and performance, has created a group exhibition that is at once a self-portrait and a riveting display of some of the most vital trends in contemporary U.S.-based art. From her position as a visual artist, […]

It’s hard to think of many found-object artists who have achieved works as intricately made, culturally resonant, and visually sumptuous as El Anatsui’s. Anatsui was born 1944 in Anyako, Ghana. Anatsui earned a bachelor’s degree in sculpture and a postgraduate diploma in art education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is […]

I try, always try, to create a space where I can probe my identities vis-à-vis the world around me. Using a wide range of mediums, I often attempt to explore the world of illusion against a background of memory, a memory nearly always based on reality. By sensing and exposing a metaphorical world that hides […]

Anything but a manifestation of “collective subconsciousness,” the seven works of Yin Xiu-Zhen in Beijing Commune could almost be seen as a collection of mischievous suggestions and devices that the artist has dreamed up from everyday experience to tackle the frictions of a collective way of life. Lu Ying-Hua Translated by Song Yang Yin Xiu-Zhen, […]

I am convinced that my earliest memory of the death and funeral of someone close to me left such a strong impression on my psyche that it became the root of my self-consciousness. It gave me an incessant and strong fascination with the physical body that has remained as the basic source of all my […]

A Girl’s Consciousness: decisive, seductive, fearless, and sweet. Young girls are no longer worried about the world of old-fashioned romances anymore. They use their lens, even their bodies, to experience violence, sex, and the subversion of life and death. Their fragile hearts—hearts that may be broken by a sudden end of affairs, just like many […]

Since achieving a master’s degree in fine art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 1995, Jemima Brown has established a career as an artist practicing in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, and moving image. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in numerous private and public collections. Past awards […]