Cevdet Erek
Courtyards often appear in Cevdet Erek’s work, and Cevdet Erek’s works often appear in courtyards. They are inscribed in his practice on many levels, but mostly as architectural and sonic spaces: sites for rhythm, recurrence, repetition. They are also and always have been, places where people congregate―hidden, or even intimate, spaces of a certain interiority. […]
Campus Νovel
What potentialities does soil have that helps forge the relationship between human and non-human? Artist collective Campus Novel conduct a form of on-site performative research of the city of Thessaloniki resulting in a multi-modal archive on soil and the semiotics of co-existence. Through Campus Novel’s ‘poetic epistemological’ approach, subsoil is conceptualized as a site of […]
Aslı Çavuşoğlu
In Pink as a Cabbage / Green as an Onion / Blue as an Orange, Aslı Çavuşoğlu uses natural materials, as well as organic weaving and dyeing methods to produce the patterned surfaces of the thirteen textile works arranged in a polyrhythmic composition, spread across two rooms of the Villa Kapandji. All the fabrics, threads, […]
Ana Vaz
Ana Vaz’s two screened works, Há Terra! and Pseudosphynx, function as visual brackets of Being as Communion, positioned at two opposite ends of the exhibition walk. In Há Terra! a voice calls out “there is land!” Yet, whose land? How much land? Is there any land left? Could there be more of it? While we […]
Alexandra Paperno
‘Constellation’ comes from the Latin word meaning “set with stars”. Before compasses were invented, people looked to stars for navigation, mainly when sailing across the ocean. They used a constellation called the Ursa Minor to identify the location of Polaris, also known as the North Star. It was the ancient Sumerians, followed by the ancient […]
Akira Ikezoe
Akira Ikezoe started the series of drawings Outside-In in 2018, following former President Donald Trump’s insistence on constructing a wall between the US and Mexican border and imposing travel restrictions on certain countries with Muslim populations. Ikezoe wasn’t new to this: exploring humans and their relationship to their surrounding environments is at the core of […]
Ahmed Morsi
Prolific Egyptian artist, art critic, and poet Ahmed Morsi has had a multidisciplinary career, that spans seven decades, having also worked, at times, as a journalist, magazine editor, translator, and stage designer. Morsi was also a key-member of a group of artists collectively referred to as the “Alexandria school” whose practice developed under the influence […]
Abraham Onoriode Oghobase
Landscape and miners are part of a long-term body of work by Abraham Onoriode Oghobase which presents a study of the Jos Plateau region, in north-central Nigeria. This work, which consists of several sub-series, reveals layers of human involvement in the unique topography and history of Jos, with its vast grasslands and volcanic rock formations, […]
Agnes Varda
to glean: to gather leftover crops, following the harvest to gather anything slowly and laboriously In this reflective documentary/essay, we follow Varda, as she performs a final re-invention of herself at the turn of the 21st century. Her identity as a filmmaker is in tune with her identity as a woman, she shares her stories […]
