Zazzaro Otto
PHROOM ZAZZARO OTTOIn a matter of speaking, I’m dead 阴鹅麦特奥夫思笔克赢,爱莫戴德 Instagramwebsite Words by: Matteo Cremonesi In a matter of speaking, I’m dead 阴鹅麦特奥夫思笔克赢,爱莫戴德。 In the summer of 2026, I disappeared in China for a month. Anyone looking for me received no reply. In a matter of speaking, I’m dead. Then I sent a postcard, greetings […]
Nanténé Traoré
PHROOM NANTÉNÉ TRAORÉpays des merveilles 2025–2026 Words by: Victoria Aresheva Instagramwebsite The MEP’s Studio hosts pays des merveilles, the first monographic museum exhibition by French artist and writer Nanténé Traoré. The exhibition brings together a new photography project produced in Brittany in the summer of 2025, and a film shot during a residency in […]
Kata Geibl
PHROOM KATA GEIBLSomething Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue 2026 Instagramwebsite When I was 12 years old, my mother’s frustration with me for not talking that much got to the point of an argument. “Why don’t you speak like any other normal person?” she raised her voice at me. I promptly answered, “Instead […]
TJ Chen
PHROOM TJ CHENInterfaces Cursors 2022–ongoing Instagramwebsite InterfacesEphemeral digital interfaces engraved into permanent materials. I always view fast-growing digital information with nostalgia. Things that have not yet been perceived have already passed by. Digital interface is a specific kind of information with a unique format that perhaps only belongs to the time we live in. […]
Alice Jankovic
PHROOM ALICE JANKOVICGreen Paradox Instagramwebsite The Green Paradox project was born during the Swit artist residency in Gothenburg in September 2025 and developed around the figure of Scheele Green, an 18th-century pigment of extraordinary brilliance but intrinsically toxic. Discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who studied and worked at the ancient pharmacy Apoteket Enhörningen […]
Rosie Clements
PHROOM ROSIE CLEMENTS Instagramwebsite In her new body of work, Rosie turns the camera away from other people and toward objects, most of them consumable, and most of them hers: a vibrator, high heels, a Zoloft prescription with her legal name legible on the bottle, her husband’s cigarettes, a thong, her wedding ring, the […]
Michael Northrup
PHROOM MICHAEL NORTHRUP Instagramwebsite I love irony… not exclusively, but I have a special appreciation for it. And it underlies a lot of my work. I must have been especially influenced by my mother who would laugh at news stories like, “Santa loses fingers while stepping off helicopter to wave at kids”. During the […]
Yunping Li
YUNPING LI huí jiā website Instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info 回 (huí) translates as “circle,” “time,” “to go back,” “to turn around,” and/or “to respond,” and 家 (jiā) as “home” and/or “family.” Together, they mean homecoming, and this return represents an autobiographical journey through my identity-search processes. This is an ongoing project (2018-) that […]
Lisa Barnard
LISA BARNARD The Canary and the Hammer websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info Photographed across four years and four continents, The Canary and The Hammer details our reverence for gold and its role in humanity’s ruthless pursuit of progress. Through a mix of image, text and archival material, the project provides insight into the troubled […]
Yuxing Chen
YUXING CHEN The Oriental Scene websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info The Oriental Scene investigates the concept of Chinoiserie architecture in the UK in the context of de-colonialism. The project uses a replica of the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in Kew Gardens as the main object of investigation, which includes objects, drawings and documents to […]