Italy/ Lamberto Teotino – through pictures
Italian artist Lamberto Teotino‘s work relies upon the massive use of images and photography. Particularly, the Rome-based artist explores the modes in which photography acts as the true reporter of facts while simultaneously cutting out portions of space according to what the eye of the observer wants to focus on. The artist’s research explores the dissemination of meaning alongside the conditions of an altered visual...
India/ Aaditi Joshi – through pictures
Indian artist Aaditi Joshi works with site-specific environmental installations that tell of pollution and the historical heritage of her native city. As an inhabitant of Mumbai, one of the most populated and polluted metropolis in India, Joshi gets extremely influenced by the large amount of debris and trash she sees around herself on a daily basis. However, she looks at such ‘plastic’ landscape in a renewed way, reading...
Australia/ Nyah Isabel Cornish – through pictures
There was a time when the line of sight was horizontal, wide, consequential. There was a time when perception relied mostly upon the “tangible” senses of smell, touch and taste. In 1916 the Cubist masterwork Les demoiselles d’Avignon by Picasso marked a huge leap in the perception of the body. The attempt was to catch all the possible angles from which a body with volume and mass could be perceived. Instead of...
Lebanon-US/ Daniele Genadry – through pictures
Brooklyn-based artist Daniele Genadry works with painting that she uses to record the evolution of places over time. As she states in her website, referring to one of her Rome-made project Vedute, “I used a selection of the records of the city from the 1700s to present day, as well as my own snapshots, to create a new series of views, referencing the traditional 18th century etching practice in Rome.” Genadry uses the...
Italy-Taiwan/ Marta Roberti – through pictures
Rome- and Taipei-based Italian artist Marta Roberti’s work focuses on drawing and video animation that she presented in the form of installation. Her latest project Nature is Artifactual (2014) is a multimedia installation of hand drawing and light boxes she commenced in her residency at Taipei’s Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in 2014-2015. Roberti’s research explores the theme of subjectivity in today’s society,...
Iran/ Sepideh Salehi – through pictures
New York-based Iranian artist Sepideh Salehi’s body of work is imbued with the image of the veiled Muslim woman as well as with stories from her own country of origin. Through a variety of media spanning from printing, photography and video animation, Salehi’s research revolves around the poetics of veil, an accessory that is by nature used to cover, obscure, or protect. Whether it stimulates fantasies of penetrating beyond the...
Italy/ Giulia Marchi – through pictures
Italian artist Giulia Marchi’s photography draws inanimate landscapes, one may find in sci-fi movies. Her work relies on the alteration of polaroids allowing the artist to give the image a completely new texture and chromatic combination. On the occasion of Marchi’s participation in the London Art Fair 2016 (20-24 January) at the booth of Matèria Gallery, Where’s Art picks two of her photographic works on landscape...
Italy/ Marco Strappato – through pictures
London-based Italian artist Marco Strappato’s (1982, Porto San Giorgio) research revolves around the overlap and overexposure to the endless production of images from the media. His latest ‘multi-layered’ works take the form of a sculptural three-dimensional collage drawing material from the relationship between landscape and technology. Extrapolating color codes and the pure structure underneath objects, Strappato composes...
Kuwait/ Hamra Abbas – through pictures
Kuwaiti artist Hamra Abbas lives between Boston and Lahore. Her research expresses through a myriad of languages spanning photography, sculpture, video and installation. Her oeuvre is deeply imbued with images from the Islamic world that she sharply and ironically reworks. Made of miniature, vivid colors, and repetition of geometric patterns, Abbas turns such aesthetics into a minimalistic outcome. Her fascination with the power of...
Bangladesh/ Rana Begum – through pictures
Rana Begum is a Bangladeshi artist based in London. Her research delves into Islamic Art, from which she deduces the traditional repetition of motives. Combining geometry with brightly fluo colors, Begum gives shape to sculptures recalling both Scandinavian minimalistic looking and folded papers of origami.
Syria/ Sara Naim – through pictures
London-based Syrian artist Sara Naim‘s (1987) work spans photography, video and installations. Her research revolves around sculpture as it investigates the texture of surfaces, shapes and the relationship between bodies. The way she looks at the surrounding world moves from the outside inward as to catch the inner soul and emotions of a certain momentum. ...
Israel/ Keren Benbenisty – through pictures
Where’s Art presents a selection of projects by New York-based Israeli artist Keren Benbenisty. Working with video installation, drawing and sculpture, the artist investigates the notion of “in-betweeness” alongside the relationship between Western and Eastern...
France/ Margaux Roy – through pictures
French Margaux Roy‘s photography draws on simple moments of her everyday life and stories from her childhood. Each shot becomes the occasion for the artist to express her feelings through images – precisely through textures, shapes, contrasts, pattern juxtaposition. Roy’s work is minimalistic, and one can clearly see how thoughtful is the selection of landscapes, situations and glimpses that stick to the...
Tunisia/ Nicène Kossentini – through pictures
The Cabinet presents a selection of photographs from Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini‘s series The City in the Sky (2013) and I Saw the Sky (2009), in which the artist portrays fragments of the landscapes of her childhood. A coast, the seaside, a construction site appear in the image altered, blurred, almost unreal as if they were scenes from dream. The artist displaces her dear reality in the sky, where the horizon is wide and...
Spain/ Marta Corada – through pictures
London-based Spanish artist Marta Martínez Corada’s Post Memories photographic project speculates on the causality of time while suggesting a reflection on the relationship between the individual and space. Multiple shooting and a careful selection of moments plus plenty of edition work are her tools to compose these images on the boundary between fiction and...
Canada/ Hajra Waheed – through pictures
Canadian artist Hajra Waheed’s work seeks to address personal, national and cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad impact of colonial power globally. Her mixed media practice consists of ongoing bodies of work that continue to amass a growing personal archive – one in response to all those seemingly lost amongst rapid regional development and/or political strife. Hajra...
Iraq/ Hayv Kahraman – through pictures
Los Angeles-based Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman investigates the notion of female body alongside the themes of violence and woman’s condition in today’s society through painting. In her works, mostly based on wooden panel, while women postures recall Western Renaissance, the somatic traits, motifs, fabric textures and colors neatly reference an Islamic art from the Middle Eastern part of...
Morocco/ Badr El Hammami – through pictures
The work of France-based Moroccan artist Badr El Hammami is a poetical experiment on the notion of border translated in a number of installations, texts, photographs, videos and performances that question the arbitrary concept of ‘being stranger’. Its social status as foreigner in France allows him a paradoxical reading of maps and territories. When looking at a map, Badr El Hammami does not see “juxtaposed...
Greece/ Yorgos Stamkopoulos – through pictures
Berlin-based Greek artist Yorgos Stamkopoulos creates paintings which are portraits of the moment, landscapes of an inner vision, meditative depictions referring to existence, psycho-grams as he calls them characterized by temporality, melancholy, anticipation and energy. The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings is portrayed by focusing on the sense of loss and disorder. The premediatative chaos, the harmony of...
Belgium/ Sébastien Bonin – through pictures
Numerous are the pictorial references in the work of Belgian artist Sébastien Bonin. From Suprematist Kazimir Malevic, to Yves Klein’s use of blue and Mark Rothko’s Color Field Painting, Bonin experiments with color filters and light to create non-figurative canvases and photographic projects, yet recalling an illusory artificial...
Italy/ Gabriella Ciancimino – through pictures
Italian artist Gabriella Ciancimino’s research focuses on the concept of relationship, transforming artworks in moments of meeting and confrontation among individuals. As a catalyst for social change, the ideal testing ground becomes the public space. In her recent works, she analyzes the relationship between man and nature through the creation of a landscape that becomes a ‘place’ of reflection and at the same time safeguards the...
Greece/ Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos – through pictures
Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos (b. Athens, 1989) is a Greek visual artist and member of the Athens-based Arbit City Group, alongside of the experimental rock band Pockets Full of Sand. Most of Daskalakis-Lemos’ work relies upon the massive use of symbols. The selection presented in The Cabinet comes from his very first exhibition “Feral Remnants/Oinousses” held at CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery in 2013. As the press...