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Dance for non-dancers: a journal exploring the link between dance and everyday life

Maria Paris — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:18:53 +0000

Isabelle Bucklow and Hannah Woods met while studying History of Art in London. Their shared passion and fondness for performance quickly formed a strong creative relationship—they read each other’s essays, recommended books to each other, and attended exhibitions together. These exchanges nurtured their shared love of dance and writing, and ultimately led them to question

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Isabelle Wenzel’s photographs evoke imaginary choreographies

Emma Hammar — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:09:37 +0000

With a background in acrobatics, Isabelle discovered photography almost by chance after a knee injury forced her to take a break. It was while studying arts, that her then-teacher, photographer Paul Kooiker, encouraged her to discover the sculptural possibilities within photography. Quickly after, she realized the only possible subject of her work would be the

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A year of change, creativity, and collaborations: 2022 in review

Amelie Varzi — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:18:50 +0000

Around this time last year, we asked ourselves how creativity could inspire new, more sustainable ways of living, how it could guide us through change, and help us rise to the challenges facing our communities and ecosystems. As we embarked on a journey to explore these questions, it became clear that finding answers wouldn’t be

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A Pound of Pictures: Photographer Alec Soth’s exploration of self-doubt, the act of looking, and the richness of the world

Emma Hammar — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:24:35 +0000

Alec Soth is a Magnum photographer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for his long-term projects that capture the spirit of middle America. His breakthrough project, “Sleeping By the Mississippi”, is a collection of photographs of the people and places he encountered along a meandering road trip down the Mississippi River. Since its publication in 2004, Soth

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Arles Photo Festival Sneak Peek: The talents changing the landscape of contemporary photography

Emma Hammar — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:07:14 +0000

1. FRIDA ORUPABO We have been following Norwegian-Nigerian artist Frida Orupabo’s work for a long time. Her practice explores questions of race, gender, violence, and identity. Combining family photographs with found digital and physical material, Orupabo revisits and challenges the authority of archives and sheds light on stories and people often left out of them.

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OSTKREUZ exhibition ‘After the Escape’ portrays the lives of Ukrainian refugees

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:04:42 +0000

Russia’s war in Ukraine is entering its third month in June, and the different social, economic, and political impacts can be observed across Europe and the world. Artists and creative communities are joining forces to document the war and create safer platforms for those impacted to share their stories, traumas, and hopes. A month-long exhibition

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Photographer and self-declared introvert Julia Sellmann on capturing intimacy in her portraits

Emma Hammar — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:06:50 +0000

In the last five years, Cologne-based photographer Julia Sellmann has been taking portraits for magazines such as National Geographic, Zeit Magazin, and The Guardian. She has photographed a great variety of subjects, from book publisher Gerhard Steidl to artist Thomas Ruff. During this time, her images have become distinct by being charmingly candid. In her

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Berlin art collective Pegasus.Product on embracing a messy world

Emma Hammar — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:22:41 +0000

A Berlin-based shared artistic collective, Pegasus.Product was founded by creatives Dargelos Kersten, Anton Peitersen, and Gernot Seeliger, although they have no singular narrative as to how they formed. Rather, they describe it as an organic occurrence after years of existing in the same creative orbit. “Over the course of several exhibitions, we learned to form

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From Italian indie bands to sacred rituals in India, Enrico Caputo captures the less observed

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 11:47:36 +0000

From producing music videos for Italian indie bands, to working as a commercial photographer, launching the book and platform Designers Against Coronavirus, and exploring themes of traveling and belonging in his personal portfolio, Enrico Caputo’s artistic path is far from linear. His diverse professional experiences have shaped him to become someone that admires and seeks

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O-Town House is a Los Angeles-based exhibition space where art, history, and domestic intimacy collide

Amelie Varzi — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:49:00 +0000

O-Town House is a self-proclaimed flexible space. Not only is art shown and discussed there, but it is also the home of its founder, Scott Cameron Weaver, who has agreed to show us around. As the founder’s home, the space has a domestic intimacy typically lacking in the white cube mode of display that dominates

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