My work consists of representing an everlasting, perfect place. I make images in order to present the possibility of life after death. I want to confront the spectator with real views about the ending of the world as we know it, and the creation of the new one. Western society, with its hard rationalism and […]

I am a filmmaker and former underground warehouse party promoter based in New York. I am the founder of Sterile Cowboys & Co., the entity that produced PRODUCT, a monthly cable access show in New York, which aired between 2000 and 2004. This subcultural magazine not only showcased pop culture excess, but it also solicited […]

Mary Cook: First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your fourth show at Roebling Hall, The Castle, The Meadow and The City. You certainly have been quite busy over the years. You have been studying film, and you have exhibited extensively overseas at the Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art […]

Platform China is a Beijing-based multi-function art organization, established since 2005. The main aim of Platform China is to develop and promote contemporary art in China and to build up a platform for cultural exchange and dialogue between Chinese and international artists. Its main gallery (1,100sq.m) is located in Caochangdi—a newly developed art district in […]

"Despite the infiltration of darkness into his oeuvre, his travels have made him keenly aware of the transformative and spiritual power of light. He writes, ‘My paintings are… meant to reflect the shrines and innermost sanctuaries of… those places. Under this inspiration, I depict in my art real and dream places or dark light, of […]

War is in our nature. The innate presence of self-preservation is everywhere. It guides us through life and causes us to stamp out all things that threaten the sense of security we require to live in peace. Like peace, there has always been war. In fact, it has proved itself a key element in the […]

American history has played a critical role in the development of my work. As an African-American artist and performer, it is my responsibility not to forget how comedy and humor were used to humiliate and mock people of color at the turn of the 20th century. These controlling images utilized in minstrel shows and portrayed […]

John Kingerlee, a UK-born practicing Muslim, has lived on the Beara Peninsula on the coast of Ireland for the past 25 years. He also spends about half the year in Granada, Spain, and in Morocco. All these lives, all these places, and all these beliefs bring texture to his work. D. Dominick Lombardi is a […]

The targets of my photographic interests result in documentary series about particular communities or social groups. A specific picture of a specific group represents just one of the many different parts of the whole. It is not my goal to find a universal model. It is not my idea to globalize and create a certain […]

This photographic series puts together the different elements that document the existence of a sacred cult living in the primeval Polish forest. This cult represents an eco-terrorist movement that opposes Darwinist theory. They believe people evolved from plants and they are trying to reverse evolution by living like them. Turning their backs on human civilization, […]