In 1978, at the age of 26 Bettina Rheims started out photographing. After having worked as a model, a journalist, and an art dealer, she devoted herself in 1980 solely to photography. She makes a first series of strip-tease artists and acrobats, which were shown 1981 in two personal exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, and […]

How do we develop a wider personal and philosophical framework and realize our potential as human beings? The Coal Measure Research Unit Action is an apparatus that provides a means of engaging with unseen and temporary social spaces. Usually the coal measure takes place between sidewalks and bus wheels, between motorcar wheels and parking bays, […]

Using fluorescent light and movement to explore color, luminosity, and sculptural space, German artist Kilu captures the energy of the life—from the people he meets to the places he travels. Conceiving his visual art behind a camera lens, Kilu conveys inventive points of view that form a synthesis between abstract and figurative elements. Kilu creates […]

Memory (2008), Anish Kapoor’s commissioned sculpture for the Deutsche Guggenheim, sits tightly within its gallery spaces—a twenty-four-ton, Cor-Ten steel tank, defined by its volume rather than by its mass. Its thin skin suggests a form that is ephemeral and unmonumental, defying gravity as it gently glances against the peripheries of the gallery walls, floors, and […]

Our images are more a reflection of an idea than a reflection of reality as it appears in front of the object. In these images we control and shape the reality according to our aesthetic and personal needs, avoiding, or filtering with a critical sense, the casual element that usually make photography an expression and […]

Leah Oates: Please describe your background and how you became an artist. Yasmine Chatila: My grandmother was an artist. She studied 19th-century painting in Italy at the Academia di Belle Arti in Turin. I remember many afternoons where she used to give me lessons on how to draw and paint. I think I was about […]

Andries Botha’s work explores the loss of self as people participate in mass migration in search of new imagined futures. Responding to a question about the work, Botha said, “Our contemporary modernity has resulted in a global pattern of human migration. Survival, desire, romance, greed, and tragedy are all metaphors that fuel the human imagination. […]

Zhu Qi: How did you start to get interested in the gardens in Southern China? Dong Wen-Sheng: I think it’s because of the environmental surroundings of my life and the educational background before my views on the world and the art had been developed. I live in a small city in Southern China, named Changzhou, […]

Loulou Cherinet’s work connects through the documentary, despite a deliberate staged setting. Cherinet focuses on setting the appropriate conditions for her storytelling. This can be a dinner party where a number of black people dressed in the same striped jersey tell stories about their relations with white women as in White Women (2002). In Personal […]

Clunie Reid uses photographs, drawings, media images, and text to create aggressive and unrefined collages. Through the use of cheap materials and a rudimentary approach to display, Reid works against formality and the ideologies suggested by images of wealth and beauty dispersed within the work. Utilizing a deskilled aesthetic and emphasizing the act of composition […]