Makis Makris

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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

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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

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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 […]

Diego Moreno

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DIEGO MORENO Melancholy   websiteInstagram Melancholy is a graphic intervention project on my personal archive, through acrylic paint, oil, or graphite, reflecting on the nostalgia of love breakups. Through archival images of couples that I have collected over the years, including my family’s, I revisit the complexity of relationships, where drama, pain, desire, and the […]

Lorena Florio

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LORENA FLORIO Lacerazioni   Instagram In an attempt to create representations of reality without spatial-temporal constraints, my visual research often begins with simple elements that are subjected to various processes, both physical and digital. Through these levels of transformation of the photographed subject, I try to dig deep while considering what is really hiding behind […]

I Made Them Run Away // Martina Zanin

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MARTINA ZANIN I made them run away   website published by: SKINNERBOOXtext by: Matteo Cremonesi With I Made Them Run Away, Martina Zanin creates a composition whose narrative development involves the crossing of different levels. A combination of voices in which each language takes on a particular meaning and value within the narrative structure.The photographs, […]

Laura Chen

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LAURA CHEN Words From Dad   websiteInstagram ‘Words From Dad’ is an ongoing series that explores my Dutch-Chinese heritage and identity. With the use of archival images from my own family albums, I trace back my mixed roots through my grandfather’s life stories as told by my dad. I am originally from The Netherlands. I […]

A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture // Jeffrey Ladd and David Campany

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JEFFREY LADD A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture   websiteinstagram published by: MACKtext by: Giacomo Infantino Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, published by Mack, is a meticulous survey by photographer Jeffrey Ladd and curator and critic David Campany. It consists of 224 black and white photographs taken between the late 1960s and 2008. […]

Guillaume Tomasi

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GUILLAUME TOMASI A bloom in the eye of the storm website Instagram How do we grow up in a society that constantly reminds us that our way of life is leading us inexorably to our loss? Through the gaze of a father towards his children, A bloom in the eye of the storm focuses on […]

Cristiano Volk

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Cristiano Volk Laissez-Faire   websiteInstagram Imagine a life lived under the glow of artificial daylight, where reality is not experienced directly, but mediated through screens. Imagine a world so densely networked that all of the distinctions by which we have learned to make sense of time and place – interior and exterior, private and public, […]

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