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Tag: Photography

Fissuras: On writing from emptiness by Cecilia Sordi Campos

29th March 202231st March 2022  Cecilia Sordi Campos

In this powerful, vibrant poem, photographic artist Cecilia Sordi Campos brings together words and images to create a portrait of the primal landscapes of the body; of the feral beauty that we would find in the cracks and fissures if we only dared to look.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, Photography, Poetry, prose poems, translated poetry, Translation

It All Comes Down at the Barbican

10th March 202110th March 2021  Rochelle Roberts

Bringing together thirteen emerging artists between the ages of 16-25, the Barbican’s latest exhibition, It All Comes Down, explores how young people navigate the world and approach their artistic practise during the pandemic.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Annie Lee, Arabella Turner, art, Barbican, Barbican Centre, Becca Lynes, Dada, Defne Ozdenoren, Film, Jordan Robertson, Lay Stevens, Lockdown, Molly Morphew, Photography, Rebecca Cromwell, Rochelle Roberts, Safiye Grey, Sam Ahern, Sneha Alexander, Surrealism, Vangelis Trichias, Young Visual Arts Group

Lucifer Over London: (re)discovering the city through new eyes

8th February 20219th February 2021  Rebecca Clark

Nine international artists, all of whom have adopted London as their home, share their experiences in this exciting new anthology.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Chloe Aridjis, essay, Influx Press, Joanna Walsh, London, Lucifer Over London, Photography, Saleh Addonia, Susana Moreira Marques, Vanni Bianconi, Viola Di Grado, Wolfgang Lehrner, Xiaolu Guo, Zinovy Zinik

Translation is a place of resting, of being in common

15th December 202015th December 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

After an Erasmus exchange in Paris, artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie discovered that translation is about the space between languages and voices; a space that affords us new connections, ideas and friendships.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Erasmus, France, French, friendship, Ground Provisions, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Language, Languages, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Life in Languages, Paris, Photography, Sealy Thompson, Stefano Harney, Translation

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Chris, Christine and the Queens, Griselda Pollock, Jada Bruney, Jaqueline Rose, John Everett Millais, Millais, music video, Nathaniel Telemaque, Ophelia, painting, Photography, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphealitism, Rolake Osabia, Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Collective, The Ophelia Letters

Women of the Night, Chapter 2: Nocturnal Mothering

23rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Looking at the work of photographer Ana Casas Broda, poet Muriel Rukeyser and musician Sherri Dupree-Bemis, Toni Roberts considers night from the perspectives of mothers, reflecting on their nocturnal experiences and reveries.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ana Casas Broda, Breast feeding, Eisley, Kinderwunsch, Louder than a Lion, maternity, milk, Motherhood, mothers, Muriel Rukeyser, music, Night, Night / Shift, Photography, Poetry, Sherri DuPree-Bemis, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night

Postcards in Isolation 27: Duane Michals, Paradise Regained, 1968

22nd September 202022nd September 2020  Georgia Good

When the world went into lockdown, nature appeared to take over, with seabirds settling in Venice and deers roaming Japan’s empty streets. Here, in the penultimate postcard of the series, Georgia Good explores nature’s return in Duane Michals’ famous work, Paradise Regained, 1968.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Ansel Adams, Corona Pandemic, Covid-19, Duane Michals, John Milton, Lockdown Living, Paradise Regained, Photography, Postcards in Isolation, William Blake

The Dinner Party Reloaded 1: The Artists

19th July 20201st September 2020  Susanna Crossman

In the first of her self-conceived series, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a virtual dinner party with selected artists and writers, Susanna Crossman meets Chiara Ambrosio, Lottie Whalen and Jemima Yong to discuss their creative projects, the looseness of time in lockdown, contact and intimacy in our increasingly digital age and the joys of chickpea stew.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, InterviewsTagged: Chiara Ambrosio, Covid-19, Decorating Dissidence, Film, Jemima Yong, Lockdown Living, Lottie Whalen, Pandemic, Photography, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Women in the Arts

Postcards in Isolation 5: Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939

15th May 202016th May 2020  Rachel Ashenden

On removing a postcard of Frida Kahlo from her wall, Rachel Ashenden began to reflect on past loves, the feelings postcards evoke and the liberation one can feel, even in lockdown, towards old relationships.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Dada, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Nickolas Muray, Photography, Postcards in Isolation, Rachel Ashenden, Rochelle Roberts, Surrealism, The Debutante

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican Art Gallery

17th March 202017th March 2020  Carla Plieth

Over 50 international artists are exhibited in the Barbican’s exciting new show documenting the development, construction, performance and questioning of masculinity from the 1960s until now.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alona Pardo, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Catherine Opie, Fouad Elkoury, Gender, Hank Willis Thomas, Hans Eijkelboom, Isaac Julien, Jeremy Deller, John Coplans, Marianne Wex, Masahisa Fukase, Peter Hujar, Photography, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Stonewall Riots, Sunil Gupta, Thomas Dworzak

The chains that bind us: Amak Mahmoodian and Angelica Mesiti at the Arnolfini, Bristol

9th March 202021st June 2020  Melissa Chemam

Amak Mahmoodian’s Zanjir and Angelica Mesiti’s Assembly explore themes of identity, unity and collective togetherness across space and time at the Arnolfini.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Amak Mahmoodian, Angelica Mesiti, Arnolfini, Arnolfini Art Gallery, Assembly, Immigration, Melissa Chemam, Migration, Photography, Stenotype, Zanjir

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