Con amplia formación práctica en talleres, seminarios y clínicas de perfeccionamiento en el campo de las artes visuales, fotografía y diseño de indumentaria, la obra de Samantha Ferro opera en torno a la problemática del cuerpo como territorio donde se definen las construcciones de identidades específicas a partir del uso, mal uso y abuso del cuerpo.
Michael Rakowitz
GATESHEAD, U.K. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Tended largely by community members who have experienced forced displacement and are seeking refuge in the area, this is a garden among the ruins. Like all of Rakowitz’s works, it bears witness, serving as a metaphor for the overlapping histories of war, oppression, migration, trauma, and adaptation that affect cultural objects and plant life, as well as people.
Katie Cuddon
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, U.K. Hatton Gallery “A is for Alma” reveals Cuddon’s progressive experience of rediscovering her individuality as the infant grows into newfound independence and reliance on communication through the body gives way to the acquisition of language.
Part Of It: A Conversation with Ranjani Shettar
Every aspect of Ranjani Shettar’s artistic practice is rooted in the natural world. Her studio, where she often works out of doors, is located in rural Karnataka in India. That local context is important since she draws on established craft traditions to find the tools and techniques that might be adapted to contemporary sculpture.
Making Contact: A Conversation with Andrés Aizicovich
Artist and inventor Andrés Aizicovich uses his objects and installations as a means to reimagine the dynamics of communication. Suspicious of the hyper-connectivity of modern life and concerned by the deterioration of the social fabric, he aims to restore the power of perception while encouraging collaborative encounters through alternative forms of contact and interaction.
Manual Dexterity Equals Freedom: A Conversation with Edith Karlson
Edith Karlson, who will represent Estonia at this year’s Venice Biennale, belongs to a generation of Estonian sculptors who, throughout the past two decades, have broken from the monumental austerity that enmeshed the medium for much of the previous century, when it was inevitably employed to propagate the ideology of the Soviet state apparatus.
Margery Amdur
CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University-Camden Presented as a living work, the exhibition has been continually unfolding and morphing throughout its three-month run, merging old works with new and much in between.
Gillian Lowndes
BATH, U.K. The Holburne Museum Lowndes, who died in 2010, trained in ceramics, attending the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1955 to 1958, at a time when experimentation was at a peak. Both teachers and students were at the heart of that movement for change, and the Central School was a crucible for the new, the inventive, and the downright strange.
Geometría infinita: Una Conversación con Valeria Seoane
Con el norte puesto en la exploración de la geometría mediante materialidades diversas, la artista visual y diseñadora gráfica Valeria Seoane, se vale de las técnicas mixtas, el collage, la pintura y el dibujo para transitar su búsqueda.
From the Outside: A Conversation with Shiro Masuyama
The practice of Shiro Masuyama, a Japanese artist currently living in Northern Ireland, is eclectic, ranging from installation, film, sculpture, and photography to performance. He uses these tools to create socially engaged art that often veers into the directly political.
