Art

A selection of work by Wales-based photographer Benjamin Waters. Waters’s work explores ideas relating to land, belief, and heritage. By considering photography’s role as a record and questioning our engagement with the life that has preceded us, his images explore the ways in which we bestow significance and construct meaning from the spaces we inhabit. Source link

October 9, 2024 ArtPhotography Grace Ebert Share Pin Email Bookmark How would you find home row in fourth-grade typing class if there were 1,700 keys in front of you? Lola Dupre’s latest collages would be intimidating to even the most ambitious student. The artist (previously) continues her disorienting manipulations with a pair of early Apple desktops, ships with enough stories …

Alighiero Boetti Before getting to Afghanistan and to the collaborative production of tapestries in March 1971, Boetti made works that established themselves in tautological relation to the language of industry of postwar Italy. Debuting in Turin in 1967, sculptures made by stacking mass-produced units of industrial materials, monochrome paintings that state the trademarked name of the factory color in which …

“My work arises from the interplay between memory and the present,” says Bogotá-based illustrator Alefes Silva. Themes of stillness and solitude, growth and death, and love and heartbreak recur in Silva’s drawings, which fuse fantastic plants and animals with human details. In one piece, a nude figure slumps over while trees and small shrubs grow from its back, while another …

The group exhibition “UMWELT” is curated by Marco Mancuso, in collaboration with festival filosofia 2024—this year’s theme the Psyche—and the Smart Life Festival. The exhibition project highlights how art and the artefacts of technoscience bring us closer to a deeper understanding of non-human expressions of intelligence, so that we can relate to them, make them part of a new collective …

Phillip Keefe’s furniture appears like it might scuttle away in the night. The Chicago-based designer uses traditional techniques like hand-carving and wood joinery to sculpt lively pieces evocative of spiders, crabs, and other creepy, crawly critters. The Tim Burton-esque furnishings were initially inspired by Keefe’s dog Iggy, who frequently accompanied him to the studio. “His ambitions always exceeded his ability, …

Following four days of continuous observation, Darya Kawa Mirza captured the moon and its rugged surface in exceptional detail. The self-taught Kurdish astrophotographer amassed 81,000 images, which he stitched into a 708-gigabyte composite revealing the intricacies of the lunar topography in stunningly high resolution. Each frame zooms in on both individual craters and bruise-colored spots—a combination of asteroid and comet …

A selection of work by artist Claire Cansick (previously featured here). While we previously highlighted Cansick’s collection of North Sea images, this post includes markedly different kind of landscapes. Cansick started delving into the “darker, ferocious, reactive side of nature” in 2018: “I began to collect reportage images from the news. This screenshot folder peppered with photos of my tv …

Many cities around the U.S. use a microphone-powered system known as ShotSpotter to help law enforcement detect the location of gunshots. In Chicago, for example, the controversial program was implemented a little over six years ago, then turned off on September 22 when the contract expired. A study found that the app had unintended consequences like slowing police response times …

“abetare (noisy classroom)” is Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj’s first solo exhibition with kurimanzutto at its New York gallery. Halilaj will exhibit disused desks covered in the scratches and doodles of children that he found in Kosovar schools following extensive research through the country to acquire them and then bring them to his Berlin studio. In Berlin he re-elaborated and assembled …