Jake Elwes
JAKE ELWES The Zizi Show website instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The Zizi Show is an interactive drag cabaret that uses deepfake, an artificial intelligence technique that can generate synthetic images. The project explores the intersection between performance drag, queer identities and the ways in which artistic practices can demystify artificial intelligence. The show […]
Felix Schöppner
FELIX SCHÖPPNER Cognition websiteinstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The work of the German photographer Felix Schöppner explores the mechanisms and limits of human perception, as well as the use of technology to develop it further.Human beings have five senses to perceive what is happening around them. Although these senses evolve over time and […]
Cristobal Ascencio
CRISTOBAL ASCENCIO Las Flores Mueren Dos Veces websiteinstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The work of the Mexican artist Cristóbal Ascencio explores a parent-child relationship filled with loss, silence, death and reconciliation.Ascencio’s father died when he was 15, but he was not told that it was suicide until he was 30. It was then […]
Alice Marcelino
ALICE MARCELINO Kindumba websiteInstagram Kindumba means my hair in Kimbundo, one of the Bantu languages spoken in the north of Angola.The project highlights and celebrates the diversity and beauty of black hair. It is a conversation about the relation of people of African ancestry with their hair, as a medium of “meaning” – the […]
Puglia Tra albe e tramonti // Luigi Ghirri
LUIGI GHIRRI Puglia. Tra albe e tramonti published by: MACKtext by: Matteo Cremonesi To approach the work of Luigi Ghirri is to approach a visual design that, in order to be fully understood, demands a commitment that goes far beyond the viewing of a collection of intelligent and often beautiful images. Attempting to understand […]
Franziska Ostermann
Franziska Ostermann Selfobservation websiteInstagram What do the photographic self-portraits that wake in the networks as avatars do while we surf or sleep?Photographic splinters of views of our selfs represent our identity in a place that we ourselves cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its own representation. Photography can act as a mediator […]
Julie Scheurweghs
JULIE SCHEURWEGHS Woman as parts websiteInstagram The female gaze is somewhat of a recurring subject in Scheurweghs her work. It’s a term used to counter ‘the male gaze’ that was coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975. The male gaze in both film and photography is always looking, while the female body is always being looked […]
Makis Makris
MAKIS MAKRIS Panta Rhei websiteInstagram This is an allegorical visual narrative, inspired by the well-known phrase of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Everything flows and everything in the Universe is indeed continually on the move. Everything changes, nothing stays the same, there is no absolute truth, the only reality is perennial movement. Makis Makris is […]
Sheung Yiu
PHROOM SHEUNG YIU websiteinstagram interview by: Michela Coslovich Michela Coslovich: Your artistic research focuses on the complexity of computer-generated imagery (CGI): how do they relate to contemporary digital culture? Sheung Yiu: That is a big question and deserves a much more in-depth answer, but I will try to keep it brief. First, let […]
Wei Wei
WEI WEI Dizzy websiteInstagram This set of photos was inspired by a virtual game. Is the way we experience games also a reflection of real life?Nowadays, virtual games are becoming more and more real, and people are constantly pursuing perfect picture quality and rich sensory experience. The line between simulation and reality becomes blurred. That’s […]