Imagination According to Ajamu
Over decades, Ajamu has been reclaiming bondage and playing with power dynamics to examine Black masculinity and identity.
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Over decades, Ajamu has been reclaiming bondage and playing with power dynamics to examine Black masculinity and identity.
Sharp shadows. Vivid colour palettes. High contrast. Tight framing. These are hallmarks of French artist Marguerite Bornhauser’s still life compositions.
Brutalist architecture emerged in the late 1940s. The following list comprises sites from across the world; each one is a key example of the style to know.
With eye-catching colours and striking staging, Mous Lamrabat creates parallel worlds bursting with humour, empathy and playful irreverence.
What happens when we apply Colour Field to the contemporary world? How are emulsion techniques transformed when subject to digital rendering?
PHotoEspaña returns with 96 exhibitions and over 300 photographers who reflect on timely and relevant themes –from gender to the environment.
Musical Thinking explores the powerful resonances between video art, audio and popular culture, with 29 stimulating time-based artworks.
This August, Powerhouse Museum presents a programme that features Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s climate, science and technology-focused installation.
Here are five photographers who engage with ideas of truth and fiction – presenting heightening visions of landscapes and cities through skilful techniques.
Baltic’s most recent retrospective is one of the most comprehensive surveys of Chris Killip’s iconic documentary photography to launch to date.
Kew Gardens celebrates the power of trees by showcasing an array of spectacular outdoor installations across its 535-acre Wakehurst site.
“Less is bore.” Architect, Robert Venturi’s iconic quote summarises the essence of Postmodern architecture. Here, we present buildings to note.
The art of Jasmin Genzel focuses on the emanation of form and the interaction with imagination – the “songline” – to poetically integrate and weave images into material. Her recent series, Bundles and Planches, develop printmaking into objects that bridge and create a moment in the gathering of pieces. Genzel has participated in various exhibitions throughout Europe.
Full Burn showcases the potential of lens-based media, immersing attendees in exciting new worlds, from virtual chat rooms to the forests of Taiwan.
Margeaux Walter’s fun, humorous self-portraits bring joy whilst responding to, and reflecting on, complex ways humans interact with landscapes.
Dublin-based Sarah Doyle harnesses bright colours and experimental shapes as a way of travelling to and inventing vast new horizons.
Brazilian image-maker Gleeson Paulino brings an evocative collection of pictures: a dreamlike chronicle about, and ode to, his native country.
Colour is tied up with the architecture of power and control. Kapwani Kiwanga shows us how, in aesthetically pleasing, immersive installations.
Origami boats sail through seas of paper-cut leaves in JeeYoung Lee’s constructed studio scenes, acting as windows to an inner world.