MONOLOGUE

MONOLOGUE

by Vandy Rattana
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
(B. 1980, Phnom Penh) lives and works between Phnom Penh, Paris, and Taipei. In 2007, he was one of the co-founders of Stiev Selapak / Art Rebels, and in 2009 he was also one of the co-founders of Sa...Read all

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Gaia Tedone Nicola Müllerschön David Teh
Être et ne pas avoir (To be and not to have)

Être et ne pas avoir (To be and not to have)

by Younes Baba-Ali
Video & Animation
Être et ne pas avoir (To be and not to have) is a video in which a Belgian resident explains the different possibilities of access and strategies linked to local social welfare. This work refers to the ...Read all

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Rasha Salti Lucrezia Cippitelli
Territorial marking

Territorial marking

by Daniel Nicolae Djamo
Video & Animation
Territorial marking / 2014 I’m marking the area surrounding the home of my mother in Nogent-sur-Vernisson (Loiret, France) with the flag of Romania. I marked a Romanian territory in France. My mother l...Read all

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Rasha Salti Lucrezia Cippitelli
Embrace

Embrace

by Matthew Humphreys
Photography & Digital Graphics
Embrace 2015 Digital Photo Collage 70cmx100cm C Type Print I am examining photographs of my childhood; looking beyond the gaze of my younger self I become aware of the setting, a home that I do...Read all

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Eva Barois De Caevel Joerg Bader
Where is My Land?

Where is My Land?

by Samnang Khvay
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Where Is My Land? by Khvay Samnang Artwork detail Khvay Samnang with Nget Rady Where is My Land? 2014 3-channel HD video, 3-channel sound 13’28” Edition 3 + 2AP About Where Is My Land is ...Read all

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Nicola Müllerschön David Teh
Simon of Cyrene (scroll drawing)

Simon of Cyrene (scroll drawing)

by Marieke Kruger
Painting & Drawing
SIMON OF CYRENE Dimensions: Large scroll drawing – 800 cm x 200 cm Medium: Charcoal on Fabriano Aquerelle paper (300g) (Displayed as drape drawing with wooden plinths) Date: 09/2014 This v...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh Miguel A. López
"The Night Between Ali & I" by Nadia Hotait and Laila Hotait

"The Night Between Ali & I" by Nadia Hotait and Laila Hotait

by Nadia Hotait & Laila Hotait
Video & Animation
“The night between Ali and I”, is a fictional reenactment displayed as a triptych of one of the key events that happened in Lebanese and Levantine contemporary History: the highjack of 39 hostages at ...Read all

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Rasha Salti Koyo Kouoh
Where do you keep your camels at night?

Where do you keep your camels at night?

by P R
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
"Where do you keep your camels at night?" attempts to characterize an aspect of our complicated contemporary geopolitical situation where nation-state seems to be surrendering to globalization of capitalism...Read all

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Gaia Tedone Nicola Müllerschön
caribbean joy

caribbean joy

by heryk tomassini
Painting & Drawing
By using the word "Guindalejo" (Puertorrican word that means fringe) and the conceptualization of it as a symbol of layers of oppression and influences, I create a sculptural paintings that reflects the...Read all

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Tobias Ostrander Gloria Sensi
Monhegan

Monhegan

by Judi Altman
Photography & Digital Graphics
With a nod to Hopper, and simplistic realism, this piece evokes for me a timeless history. A light keeper's house, from ages ago, stands strong still-against countless storms and modernizations. Stark...Read all

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Joerg Bader
Little Hans's Four Horseman

Little Hans's Four Horseman

by Eden Auerbach Ofrat
Video & Animation
The screen is misty, something between fog and black-and-white pixels'"snow". A low monotonous and mysterious sound is heard, while a horizon-line is slowly appearing. Are we watching a desert and sky?...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Senza titolo

Senza titolo

by Giovanni Bartolozzi
Painting & Drawing
The work has been made making cuts on a canvas previously enamel painted in black. The cuts have been then sewn up with strips of canvas painted with acrylic so to obtain a sort of net. Focus is moved...Read all

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Tobias Ostrander
Push the Button

Push the Button

by Gianfranco Basso
Painting & Drawing
Apparently the canvas shows a defined space, a yellow monochrome creates a sense of emptiness and endlessness. A man looks at himself entering another dimension, beyond the pictorial space; what previously...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Vesna

Vesna

by Katerina Belkina
Photography & Digital Graphics
The third and most recent work from the REVIVAL series carries the title Vesna (Spring). In a round frame I shows the female as a Virgo Lactans or Madonna Lactans, the mother nourishing with breastmilk....Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
The Fox and the Wolf: struggle for Power

The Fox and the Wolf: struggle for Power

by elena bellantoni
Video & Animation
"The Struggle for Power, the fox and the wolf" is a work shot in the International Conference Hall in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. In the film the two tango dancers wear animal masks respectively...Read all

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Rasha Salti
Endless Resistance

Endless Resistance

by elaine byrne
Project
Endless Resistance is an investigation into architect Friedrick Kiesler’s architectural and spatial interrogations. Based on his 1940's design the work examines how we live and how could we live better. ...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
On the road for 65 days

On the road for 65 days

by Erika Fabian
Painting & Drawing
On the Road for 65 days 65 days, 132 hours, 5 minutes, 40 seconds, 112 cm several millions of tiny dots The work, the project presented here is a roll of paper on which separate, monochrome, pulsating...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
ex voto /desiderando il desiderio /preghiera

ex voto /desiderando il desiderio /preghiera

by silvia fiorentino
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Installation 11 ceramic heads on iron rods / audio poetry ... "Paradigmatic are in this case the "Ex Voto”, recent pottery that in being bodies or not bodies at the same time, made of earth, so as n...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
kronos

kronos

by Luisa Giannì
Installation, Sculpture & Performance

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Koyo Kouoh
Mare Nostrum

Mare Nostrum

by Jörg Christoph Grünert
Installation, Sculpture & Performance

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Koyo Kouoh
Jack's Place, Delta County, Colorado, 2013

Jack's Place, Delta County, Colorado, 2013

by Teri Havens
Photography & Digital Graphics
Jack’s place is about twelve miles from where I live in Western Colorado. I was driving the back roads through the adobe badlands when I first saw the trailer – a glinting carapace hunkered dow...Read all

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Joerg Bader
the touch

the touch

by Katarzyna Ferworn-Horawa and Ewelina Makosa
Painting & Drawing
The photographs show the process of creating a painting by me and my co-painter Ewelina Makosa. The canvas is 2 meters wide and 10 meters long, paints are arylic. Painting together on site we explore our...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Sediments

Sediments

by jaewon kim
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
This object is made out of collected sediments from various industry materials, as in cleaning liquids that are used in daily life. The state of an object changes between transparency and turbidity. It...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Walking the Line

Walking the Line

by Shira Klasmer
Video & Animation
Both Gabriel Klasmer and Shira Klasmer have interests in the human hand, the human eye and all the systems of mediation that generate perception. The two bring these interests and their separate mediums...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Chair

Chair

by lumazen
Photography & Digital Graphics
Chair portrays a chair in a factory canteen in Germany during summer holiday closure. It captures and condenses the whole atmosphere of the place and represents the inner life of the factory.

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Koyo Kouoh
This is no dream, this is really happening

This is no dream, this is really happening

by Alex Marco
Painting & Drawing
Oil, synthetic enamel and spray on frameless canvas.

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Gloria Sensi
unfinished self

unfinished self

by martin robert reed
Painting & Drawing
The unfinished self is rooted in self portraiture, not in a mimetic sense, not in our physical likeness but in a deeper sense. we are sophisticated beings, we have emotion , intelligence, imagination and...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Koln

Koln

by Mary Stuart
Photography & Digital Graphics

“A moment of reflection, an introspective flash in a hectic life, a stingy whisper. Koln, with its German Romanticism inspired colors, wants to draw the watcher’s attention, it wants you to stop and l...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
UN'ALTRA VIA

UN'ALTRA VIA

by Mauro Falsini
Video & Animation
"...and if these walls could talk....what would they tell us?" From this question begins an exciting time-traveling journey of images and words. This journey is narrated by the subject of the story...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Nowhere you'll find me

Nowhere you'll find me

by Franz Murtas
Photography & Digital Graphics
The real cut of images is a “clean cut” metaphor of all the past you can leave behind, combining the world and the whole universe syntax in a newalchemy, it is a new language composed by images as ide...Read all

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Desta For Africa
Untitled (3) [Letter To The Sky]

Untitled (3) [Letter To The Sky]

by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Untitled (3) … [Letter to the Sky] is the third work in the Prison Anxieties series I begun in 2011. This project looks at the emotional stories of violence, death, escape, transition and will for freedom t...Read all

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Nicola Müllerschön
Pur Ti Miro

Pur Ti Miro

by Mary-Jane Opie
Project
Should dogs be allowed on the sofa? Through my artwork I want test the balance between cruelty and humour, fear and fascination, brutality and kindness by exploring the fine line between ‘adored p...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
Untitled

Untitled

by Emanuele Sartori
Painting & Drawing
The work is based on a vision pacified the lack of meaning of life. It represents itself (I hope), the overcoming of despair that has formed in their vices, many artists (and not only) of the story. Often,...Read all

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Miguel A. López
p e n s i e r o c i r c o l a r e

p e n s i e r o c i r c o l a r e

by PAOLA SOMMARUGA
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Circular Thought A vacuous polyhedron made of mathematical and perfect intersections, naturally beautiful, materializes in a complex and fascinating shape. I imagine the human mind as a shape that...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
The Remembered Film

The Remembered Film

by Vicki Thornton
Video & Animation
Influenced by the history of French avant-garde film, 'The Remembered Film' explores female representation through restaged moments and gestures from cinema. The film re-imagines these scenes in a...Read all

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Rasha Salti
Floating Poem

Floating Poem

by Caro Williams
Photography & Digital Graphics
Central to my art is an ongoing fascination with the limitations and potential of the written and spoken word. Often referencing poetry, myths and nature, much of my recent work originates from spoken...Read all

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Koyo Kouoh
PLOWED CLOWD

PLOWED CLOWD

by masakazu yamashiro
Photography & Digital Graphics
This artwork expresses Birth and Death. A chrysanthemum which woman is holding means death. (chrysanthemum is widely used for funeral in Japan) expanding stalk expresses road of birth to death.

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Desta For Africa