Dance is my life. It has kept me alive. Performance is a natural extension of it and through it. I’ve made my most cherished human connections. (more…)
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The Guardian
Jac Leirner
Artist
Jac Leirner was born in São Paulo, where she lives and works. Among her most recent solo exhibitions, stand-out: Institutional Ghost, IMMA (Dublin, 2017); Add it up, The Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh, 2017); Borders are drawn by hand, MoCA Shanghai (Shanghai, 2016); Funciones de una variable, Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2014); Pesos y Medidas, CAAM (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2014), Hardware Silk, Yale School of Art (New Haven, 2012); Jac Leirner, Estação Pinacoteca (São Paulo, 2011). Her extensive resume also includes participations at: Sharjah Biennial (2015), Istanbul Biennial (2011), Venice Bienniale (1997 e 1990), Kassel’s Documenta (1992), São Paulo Biennial (1989 e 1983).
Her work is part of many important collections around the world, such as: Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), Guggenheim (New York), MOCA (Los Angeles), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, EUA), MAM (São Paulo), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), among others.
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Rencontres d’Arles 2022Jul 4 – Sep 25, 2022
Saying that the summer of 2022 will be one of revelations seems almost like stating the obvious. How can we be made to see what is staring us in the face, but takes so long to appear, as if the revelation could only be a forced birth? (more…)
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Ingel Vaiklaartist / filmmaker
Ingel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)
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A Matter of Black LivesARTPIL / Prescription .114
Following the murder of George Floyd by police officers, demonstrations across the U.S. and beyond ignite against racism and police brutality, at times met with less than magnanimous authority.
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Alec SothPhotographer
Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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Mire Lee / Look, I’m a fountain…May 20 – Sep 4, 2022
Tubes, chains, and wires seem to resemble organic contraptions as they loop, glide, and snake around and into each other. These appliances are stiff or pliable when tension is applied, moving slowly yet fitfully. The water, oil, and grime flowing all around emphasizes the angular rigidity of the metal (more…)
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Jet Swan / MaterialPublication
A striking new photographic voice engages with street portraiture to create dark, interior psychological spaces exploring the relationship between public and private lives. (more…)
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Close EnoughSep 30, 2022 – Jan 09, 2023
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum presents pivotal projects in the careers of 12 contemporary women photographers of Magnum Photos, the pioneering photography collective. (more…)
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van Agtmael
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
