Britta Marakatt-Labba, a Sámi textile artist and painter, grew up in a reindeer-herding family in the Northernmost region of Sweden. For the Sámi, who have lived across the borders of the countries today known as…[read on]
Interview by Elizabeth Schippers // June 23, 2020
‘AmissingRoom’ is an artwork to be experienced in the evening, when it gets darker and the moon might be seen peeking from behind a tree in your housing block’s garden. Previously shown in various…[read on]
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // June 19, 2020
In one corner of the exhibition space, the walls are covered with prints of dots: overlapping dots, intersecting dots, eyes looking the visitor up and down, meeting our gaze. The prints also include adaptations of the text…[read on]
Allison Janae Hamilton triangulates her artwork between her Kentucky birth, Florida upbringing, and Tennessee family farm. The swamps simmer beneath skewers of skinny pines. The crickets commandeer conversations…[read on]
A cascade of bones spirals down from the ceiling, creating a fluid motion reminiscent of that of a wind chime. For ‘Spirals of the Pile’ (2018), the reindeer jaws, reused from her previous pieces, are carefully…[read on]
June 05, 2020
As part of a growing number of artists who are addressing landscape through the traditional medium of painting, we invited Hannah Brown and Rebecca Partridge to have a conversation, which took…[read on]
Interview by Hannah Carroll Harris // May 26, 2020
A steel mountainous landscape steadily deteriorates in its brine-filled vitrine, turning the once-clear liquid a corrosive dusty orange; a hanging plastic sheet rhythmically moves to a draft of air in the…[read on]
Interview by Cristina Ramos // May 22, 2020
The shift from consumer aesthetics toward an understanding of agriculture and the rural(s) as a sphere for artistic research is the basis of Spanish artist Fernando García-Dory’s work. Combining locally-rooted…[read on]
May 21, 2020
In April of this year, Rachel Mason’s documentary ‘Circus of Books’ premiered on Netflix to great acclaim. The film is an intimate portrayal of her parents’ experience as a straight Jewish couple running a gay porn bookstore in Los Angeles…[read on]
Interview by William Kherbek // May 19, 2020
Torbjørn Kvasbø has been producing his richly evocative ceramic works for more than four decades. He is frequently the subject of exhibitions that span from Lillehammer in Norway to…[read on]
Interview by Denisa Tomkova // May 12, 2020
We talked to Synnøve Persen about her Sámi origin, her work as a visual artist, activist and poet, and about her video work in the upcoming exhibition ‘The White, the Green, and the Dark’ at…[read on]
Interview by Lucia Longhi // Apr. 24, 2020
The current show presented online and at STATE Berlin by artist Christian Fogarolli—winner of the Italian Council Prize, which supports the project—is titled ‘PNEUMA.’ The word refers to a quite capacious concept…[read on]
