Mukaish Badla is a form of embroidery, which at its peak flourished in the Indian city of Lucknow. At its peak, in the 18th century, the art form travelled to different parts of the world, but is now restricted to a few narrow lanes of the old city of Lucknow. ...
Tami Bahat: Dramatis Personae
Says Tami: Inspired by the Old Master Painters, I construct and photograph scenes from an alternate history, my own characters from Renaissance through Victorian times. Simply staged yet complex and haunting, these intimate studies plunge the viewer into unique moments throughout the past several hundred years. The use of live...
Paco Chuquiure: OASIS
The inhabitants of "Oasis" have built their life on an abandoned trash heap outside Lima. Ten years ago they simply took over the former dump in what is called an "invasion". This is the euphemism Peruvians use to describe the technically illegal land grab of empty space in many areas...
Asis Kumar Sanyal: A Piece of Paradise
Says Asis: As the eagle flew up on the Golden land of America, I looked down and felt like gliding in the air forever viewing the real to surreal beauty of nature. As I started traveling taking flights from Newark, New Jersey, my temporary shelter for six months , I saw...
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: Salt
Global warming seems to have more severe impact on certain countries than others because of the way it affects the world climate. An immediate effect of global warming is the increased natural disasters like storm surge and flood, while sea level rise is a slow, yet inevitable process. Bangladesh, the...
Panos Charalampidis & Mary Chairetaki: Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable
This body of work echoes a sinister omen from the future. During the last years, we watched our country’s economy plunge and poverty destroy the middle class. We witnessed countless refuges driven away from war zones, the worldwide rise of radicalism, while populism and the extreme right parties were gaining...
Gabrielle Hall-Lomax: Transformed Surfaces
Transformed Surfaces is an investigation into how we perceive and relate to our natural environment in the current geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is defined by the significant reshaping of the earth’s geology and eco-systems due to human activity. More than ever our relationship to the natural...
Socrates Baltagiannis: Chasing the Rainbow
Migration; always an act of pursuing a better tomorrow than what is given to you and most often, an evil necessity when leaving your war-torn homeland for another, so that a life in peace is possible. Choosing to live under your own beliefs or love somebody that others may not...
Moritz Küstner: The Dying Dead Sea
The Dead Sea is strictly speaking not a sea but a lake. However, a very special lake. At the lowest point on earth he runs over a length of 100 km, framed by the West Bank, Jordan and Israel. Its water is extremely salty and mineralized. But this unique ecosystem...
Aurelien Marechal: Block
Urbanization in China has grown dramatically from the 1990s and exceeded the 50% threshold for the first time in 2011. By 2050, according to the United Nations prognosis, the percentage of people living in urban areas will reach 77%. As a result, the continued development of real estate infrastructure has...