The social forum era is swallowing lives and spewing endless montages of homogenous highlights, emotional scenes and climax. Everything lying in the empty spaces between a selfie and another becomes nothing. As in a network where only connections and intersections count, the space outside these nodal points is forgotten and...
Ece Gökalp: A Mountain As Many
A Mountain As Many is a research project on Mount Ağrı and its spectators. It focuses on the ways in which the mountain has been constructed through stories, myths and things that have happened around or on the mountain itself over the centuries, the combination of which has lead to...
Daniel George: Trigger Trash
Says Daniel: The term "Trigger Trash" is used by the United States Bureau of Land Management to describe firearm related waste found on federally owned, public land. In Eastern Idaho, recreational shooting is legal in these rural places, but it is unlawful to discard any targets, shrapnel, or debris. As...
Natasha Podunova: Came From The Sea
During three years the artists Natasha Podunova and Nastya Rostova are working on the project called "Came From The Sea", creation of which was inspired by the fact of existence of the ancient sea in the Urals in the Paleozoic era. The idea is in combining together two periods –...
Svetlana Zhukova: Bodily Research – Mimicry
Says Svetlana: This is longterm project because the moment of awareness a course of life and feeling a location is spontaneous and important here and now. It’s a reasoning about body, form, muscles and their interrelationships. This unexpected moment of experience in each situation: be a naked and tactile feel...
Benjamin Le Brun: The Center of Spare-time Activities
The project “The Center of Spare-time Activities” stages models playing the role of tourists in a chosen scenery: commercial areas in suburban zones. It illustrates the current mutation of malls, especially in France, through absurd and derision. These places aim at attracting more customers by providing spare-time activities. From the...
Ryan Parker: Coping With The Landscape
Says Ryan: Coping with the landscape refers to my fear of the state of the contemporary landscape - Fear generated by the loss of humanity in the land that supports the movement of capital first, and the needs of the locality second. To cope, this series of photographs follows the...
Andrea Foligni: Fakescapes
The European Landscape Convention (Florence, Italy, October 2000) defines the landscape «an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors». The concept of this work is the perception of landscapes. The conception and the representation of landscapes have...
Valerio Figuccio: The Dystopian Nature of Things
The Dystopian Nature of Things emerges from a long journey of 8 months between Australia and Asia during 2017/2018. In this work I'm particularly interested in recreate an unreal perception of reality through the connection of different elements. With particular attention to details and contrast between lights and shadows, the...
Alice Oliver: 5p
When was the last time you saw a plastic bag on the side of the road and thought 'Art'? Actually when was the last time you saw a plastic bag on the side of the road and thought anything? Are we blind to this form of pollution? 5 trillion plastic...