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...
Ada Marino Virgins on the Cross Stories In the realm of motherhood, an aura of romanticism often envelops the experience, obscuring the raw truth that lies beneath. “Virgins on the Cross," aims to cast a different light on this journey, documenting the ambivalence that is innate to motherhood....
Zoé Hollebecq L'Entaille Stories My photographic approach manifests a desire to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Based on personal questions or intimate stories, I create visual narratives that question our tangible reality, exploring the complexity of our relationship between the visible and the invisible. L'Entaille is...
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...
Vittoria Fragapane Travels into One Nation of the World Stories The public and private sphere, the exteriority of social relationships and domestic interiority seem to have leveled their edges, their margins, blurring into one another. In this series of photographs taken inside the park-museum Swissminiatur, through the interplay...
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...
When it comes to parenthood, we often hear about maternal instincts, yet it is relatively rare to hear about paternal ones. Apart from the immediate gut sentiments that revolve around the protection and nurturing of a new human that is suddenly forever entangled with us,...