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Deborah Paauwe: Behind the Myth of Innocence

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AUSTRALIA: subtly disquieting images that evoke the artist’s youthful memories, unravelling the myth of childhood innocence.

18 March 2023 Oceania

Hyongryol Bak: Views Beyond Utility

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Land art seeking a fresh perspective on Nature freed from notions of territory and property.

6 January 2023 Asia

Manit Sriwanichpoom: The Colours of Dissent

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THAILAND: Scathing satirical tableaux critiquing the country’s turbulent socio-political scene, created by one of Southeast Asia’s leading artists.

23 July 2022 Asia

Shen Wei: Navigating the Multivalent Body

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CHINA / USA: Delicately ambiguous self-portraits exploring the tension between freedom and boundaries, self-reflection and self-discovery.

25 June 2022 Americas, Asia

Diego Moreno: The Rebel and His Monsters

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MEXICO: Named one of the top twenty talents worldwide by FOAM magazine, Diego Moreno’s monsters have much to show us about familial love and about domestic abuse.

11 June 2022 Americas

Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales from Elsewhere

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AUSTRALIA: Fables that are at once personal and universal, familial and public, recounting childhood perspicacity and adult frailty far the here and now.

14 May 2022 Oceania

Roman Mart: The Quest for Ways of Being

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RUSSIA / USA: One man’s quest for a more nuanced way of being, teasing apart notions of morality from those of dogma, of identity from those of normality.

7 May 2022 Europe

Suk Kuhn Oh: By the Book

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Satirical imagery that critiques the impact of colonialism in Korea and its enduring legacy of historical trauma.

9 April 2022 Asia

Ayman Kaake: Beyond Words

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LEBANON / AUSTRALIA: Dreamlike psychodramas that envision the émigré’s feelings of separation, longing and isolation.

26 March 2022 Asia, Oceania

Andy Wiener: The Story Behind the Mask

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UNITED KINGDOM: Conjuring the familial past and a satirical future through the evocative power of photographic masks.

12 March 2022 Europe

Michael Grab: The Harmony of the Stones

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CANADA / USA: Temporary sculptures created by balancing stones with nothing more than gravity to hold them together.

26 February 2022 Americas

William Yang: Stories from the Margin

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AUSTRALIA: A contemporary story-teller who combines photography and words to synthesis rich and complex narratives of family, community and sexuality.

16 October 2021 Oceania

Diana Blok: The Beautiful Imperfect

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NETHERLANDS: Portraits that speak to the entanglement of individual, interpersonal and collective identity, the mutability of the body, and the fluidity of being.

18 September 2021 Europe

Fernando Montiel Klint: Seeking the Eternal

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MEXICO: Obscure rituals that blend the contemporary with the timeless, the personal with the collective, to suggest imaginary states and real-world paradoxes.

11 September 2021 Americas

Deborah Luster: Evidence of Life

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USA: Timeless portraits made in collaboration with the inmates of three penitentiaries in the northeast of Louisiana, the US state with the largest per capita prison population.

4 September 2021 Americas

Cecilia Paredes: Artist of Nature & Artifice

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PERU: Art and Nature entangle the body in images that speak of the camouflage adopted by an outsider.

31 July 2021 Americas

Denis Darzacq: The Body Liberated

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FRANCE: For Denis Darzacq, the body is an instrument of social critique with which to explore the constraints and barriers suffered by people marginalised by materialist society.

22 May 2021 Europe

Gerard & Marc: Storytelling on a Grand Scale

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AUSTRALIA: Raucous, irreverently grandiose images that bring to mind the diverse traditions of William Hogarth’s 18th-century satirical etchings, 19th-century history painting and 20th-century cinema.

1 May 2021 Oceania

Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Constructing from the catalogue of British oil painting ironic self-portraits that situate the alienated Asian man in the midst of Britain’s aristocratic past.

17 April 2021 Asia

Nana Frimpong Oduro: Frames of Mind

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GHANA: With few resources and no connections into the wider art-world, Nana Frimpong Oduro has developed a distinctive photo-art practice gaining recognition internationally.

6 March 2021 Africa

Erwin Olaf: A Hesitant Beauty

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NETHERLANDS: Knighted by the Dutch Government, Erwin Olaf has earned a world-wide reputation for his immaculately choreographed tableaux that subtly suggest the ultimate uncertainty of being.

12 December 2020 Europe

The Jackson Twins: Seeing Double

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UNITED KINGDOM: A collaboration between identical twins drawing on the traditions of European folklore, Gothic Romance and Hollywood cinema, blending British whimsy with a darker psychological ambiguity that lends depth and complexity.

3 October 2020 Europe

Dulce Pinzón: Practical Magic

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MEXICO: Dulce Pinzón creates latter-day visual fables that address real social issues: racial prejudice, low-paid workers, environmental damage.

22 August 2020 Americas

Peter Solness: The Worlds of a Light Painter

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AUSTRALIA: An artist painting with light to create richly coloured and emotionally intensified images of the natural and human worlds.

13 June 2020 Oceania

John Paul Evans: At Home with Otherness

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UNITED KINGDOM: Quintessentially British in their rigorous formality, these allegorical tableaux grow from the personal experience of an intergenerational life partnership condemned to the margins of ‘otherness’.

9 May 2020 Europe

Pushpamala N: India’s Entertaining Iconoclast

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INDIA: Described as “the most entertaining artist-iconoclast of contemporary Indian art”, Pushpamala N’s pioneering and influential feminist–conceptual photographic performance works seek to subvert the dominant cultural and intellectual discourse in India.

2 May 2020 Asia

Peter Wiklund: Worlds Through a Pinhole

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SWEDEN: A simple pinhole camera used to create images that evoke the primordial and the post-apocalyptic; a tension between humankind and the rest of nature.

25 April 2020 Europe

Hillerbrand + Magsamen: The Stuff of Dreams

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USA: Repurposing their household possession to create a mandala or build a spaceship, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen use photography, video, performance and installation to explore the paradoxes of the American Dream.

11 April 2020 Americas
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