Urban Art Festival Styria in pictures: Mots, HNRX, Jacoba Niepoort and Lunar working on murals in Graz
The Urban Art Festival Styria 2020 in Graz recently launched its annual street art event that featured sprawling new murals across the city and villages from the region. Future Icons association and STUWO student’s house together with the artists, fine art students have prepared music performances, exhibitions, interactive installations, and other creative programs during the […]
Photography on the battlefront of an interspecies war – Olga Plesińska talks with Andrew Skowron
Translation: Michał Toński ‘Preserving “emphatic images” is my job. I believe that animal breeding has no right to be a hermetic part of our world. An investigative photographer’s duty is to unnerve the audience with images of the abuse that is going on there, so that no animal is forgotten in its tragedy. I do […]
Arnold, I love you – Andrzej Matuszczak
Arnold, I love you III Pracownia fotografii, 2017 A series of digital photos dedicated to Michał, who lifted weights all his life, literally and metaphorically. Andrzej Matuszczak, urodził się w Poznaniu w 1993 roku. W 2019 r. ukończył Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu, na kierunku Fotografia. Obecnie zajmuje się projektowaniem graficznym oraz fotografią dokumentalną »» […]
Works created in isolation – Catalina Aranguren
Catalina Aranguren’s work explores the relationship between perception and cognition. The artist doesn’t set out to look for subjects. The texture, shape, or relation between subjects will instantly fascinate her, and she will in turn try to document the moment. Her work focuses on the irrelevant and mundane, elevating documentation created by using light and […]
My First Pandemic – Yuvraj Khanna
With oncoming of the pandemic, my immediate concern was the shutting down of the borders of both my current resident country U.S.A and home country India. Separated from my family and living alone, I started to explore the human condition of how a pandemic and self isolation can alter the relationships & our dependency between […]
In between – Jana Gombiková
How do we choose whether someone is to be seen as male or female? How does this choice affect the way we perceive the person? Even though certain features are typically attributed to one gender or another, there is no clear-cut reality. In my portraits, I capture women with no conventional feminine characteristics visible […]
Void by Diego Jock
An important Brazilian artist used to say: “up close, nobody is normal.” But after all, what is normal in our time? We are all hyper-connected, consuming information from all sides. The brightness of the cell phone reaches our eyes hundreds of times a day. Fact is, we can no longer be alone. Silence and loneliness […]
Cows of the Rising Sun – Alan Weiss
In the beginning there was a Cow. She was born from a melting glacier and her name was Auðumla. She fed the giant Ymir, the ancestor of the Frosted Giants – the Thurs. Hence perhaps the gossip clad in a neat adage: “Drink milk, you’ll be great!” Except that Ymir was a giant before he […]
Intimacy of the streets – Anna Stachurka in Athens
I knew I was moving to the politically hottest region of Athens – Exarcheia district. Apart from the picture of the Acropolis in my head, and the general knowledge on difficult situation in Greece – my mind was free of any notions or concepts about the place. I flew there in search of images […]
Yellow – Bohdan Mucha
From early childhood my mom told me not to wear yellow. She can’t totally make an argument about it, but she always repeated that wearing yellow was weird and only crazy people did it. I didn’t understand why she thought so, but still believed in this theory, because of one strange man, who was selling […]
From the road – Jagoda Cierniak
In 2015, with a friend, for a month we traveled around the United States. We managed to drive a car almost 16 thousand kilometers and visit twenty-one states. We slept in a small golf, stopping mainly in the wastelands and gas stations. We visited, among others Slab City, a community inhabited in the desert, living […]
Radio Yerevan, or what we know about Armenia – interview with a photographer Norayr Chilingarian – Zuzanna Majer
>>Translation by Jędrzej Majer<< When I decided to write this article I asked myself: what do I know about that country? It became very apparent very quickly that the answer is: “not much”. I have some foggy memories about feelings of solidarity in times of the Soviet Union, as well as anti-Soviet jokes about […]