Libuše Jarcovjáková’s T-Club is a book about impulses left unrestrained, about living against the grain. T-Club was a basement refuge in socialist Prague, a place where the outcasts, the dreamers, the beautiful and the unbeautiful could be held by the night, hidden but free, in...
Michael Ackerman’s Hunger – Epilogue (published by Void) arrives like a specter, a haunted fragment of something we recognize but cannot name. The book feels soft, heavy, and jagged at its edges. I’d call it a map of human states, a plunge into mental spaces...
Showcasing war as a form of a metaphor, a visual experience rather than direct representation of reality is something we can find in Vic Bakin’s (b. 1984, Ukraine) Epitome. Newly created imagery in war-torn areas is merged with his archive documenting male adolescents in transitory...
Ren Hang’s work defies the conventions of both life and photography in a way that feels more like an existential plunge into the unknown. Ren Hang by Peter Coeln (b.1954, Austria), published a decade after the artist’s "Wild" photobook, presents a raw and hauntingly...
The ongoing period from 1 July 2023 - 1 July 2024, is an important one for Dutch history since it marks 160 years since slavery was officially abolished in Suriname and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and 150 years since forced...
Art or porn? A question that I often get asked (probably because I curated a magazine with erotic photography), as if I was some live porn detector. Who the hell knows?! I didn't make the definitions or categories so to me they don't matter. Nudity...
Sometimes, I forget how much of a privilege we have working as artists in democratic societies where art doesn’t face (as much) censorship as in different political systems. This thought especially came to my mind when I got in touch with Li Ye Zeng Yi...
Autobiography — a perspective that you cannot take away from somebody, it's simply theirs. However, what happens when somebody else interprets our life and vision? One of the standouts among photographers from the second half of the twentieth century is certainly Libuše Jarcovjáková. Her striking...
In the past years, we have witnessed the rise of Chinese contemporary photography, particularly, on the European market. We can see the increasing presence of such artists in galleries and fairs. What is this sudden fascination among European audiences? Is it our surprise to see...