Interview by Johanna Hardt // Feb. 19, 2019
When was the last time you took a moment to close your eyes, breathe in deeply and listened to what is around you? This question is not an unfamiliar one. It is often wielded by those that like to remind us…[read on]
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Jan. 31, 2019
‘For Your Eyes’ is Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar’s debut exhibition in the Middle East, with a solo show at Dubai’s The Third Line. Having grown up in New York City, Nassar’s works…[read on]
Interview by Rebecca Partridge // Jan. 25, 2019
The work of artist Florence Peake flies in the face of conservatism. Literally. Wet slopping clay, hurled across the gallery. Her practice morphs between performance, painting and sculpture and though…[read on]
Interview by Celia Wickham // Jan. 22, 2019
Tannaz Motevalli is an interdisciplinary Baltimore-based artist, whose work focuses on bodies of language, desire and identity. Her practice is highly autobiographical and shaped around her experiences of living with chronic…[read on]
Interview by Marta Jecu // Dec. 14, 2018
The European identity remains without any concrete basis: the geographic indicators shift, the idea of the centre enters into local folklore and the monuments indicating it corrode…[read on]
Interview by Diane Barbé // Dec. 11, 2018
It’s early evening on a rainy Saturday in December. In the studio space of HAU2, four women are sitting in a semi-circle, arranging their notes, checking audio and video connections for their upcoming panel…[read on]
Interview by Romily Alice Walden // Nov. 27, 2018
Baby Punk + Dr. Babuyoka collaborate in a multidisciplinary live performance that fuses rap, video, hip hop and spiritual ritual. During their performance, video footage of conspiracy theorists and sea…[read on]
Interview by Romily Alice Walden // Oct. 12, 2018
When living in a production-oriented society that prioritises profit over quality of life, taking the time to care for our communities is a disruptive act. This disruption is the focus of the work of Feminist…[read on]
Interview by Brit Seaton // Oct. 09, 2018
Most of us probably haven’t asked our neighbour for a cup of sugar, let alone asked them what they’d do with a cash sum of £100. In September 2017, the latter request floated through the letterboxes…[read on]
Interview by Benjamin Marvin // Oct. 02, 2018
If repression has become the fundamental link between power, knowledge and sexuality we cannot cure ourselves of it without an examination of the ways mental illness and invisible disease operate…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // Sept. 21, 2018
Ben Elliot treads a fine-line between vacuous consumerism and crushingly emotional terrains. At first glance, you may write this Parisian off as an influencer, party-boy or even a troll, but his soft, off-the-cuff quips…[read on]
Interview by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Sept. 18, 2018
Art historians have long drawn upon the rich symbolism and allegorical potential of food in art. From Cézanne’s Still Life with Onions and a Bottle to Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas, Flesh Dress for An Albino…[read on]
