by Peter Speetjens | 18/10/2019 | Art & Culture, Middle East
Youssef Nabil left Egypt in 2003, yet really never left. With his hand-painted photographs and videos he created his own personal iconography of the Egypt he loved, the Egypt that once was and he wishes to preserve. Inspired by cinema, it is an imaginary Egypt, yet...
by Peter Speetjens | 17/10/2019 | Art & Culture
Winner of the 2016 Hasselblad Masters Awards, 24-year-old Slovakian Evelyn Bencicova divides her time between Vienna and Berlin and found a fine balance between aesthetic and conceptual. The secret? It is all about “fiction based on truth”. Evelyn, you were born in...
by Peter Speetjens | 18/07/2019 | Art & Culture
All is not what it seems in the work of Petros Chrisostomou. The British artist meticulously sculpts strangely familiar miniature worlds, only to blow them out of proportion again with the click of a camera. Petros, you are quite the global citizen: born in London, of...
by Peter Speetjens | 06/06/2019 | Brazil
Edilberto Sena was maar één keer echt bang in zijn leven. Dat was toen hij in 2006 bedreigd werd. Twee jongemannen verkondigden op een sociaal netwerk dat het voor de vrede en voorspoed van de stad Santarém en de deelstaat Pará beter was wanneer hij en een collega...
by Peter Speetjens | 18/04/2019 | Art & Culture
Arnout van Albada’s studio is his kitchen. The Dutch artist loves his food and loves to paint anything from raw vegetables and Spanish hams to sardines and cream cakes. Altough food is regarded a “vanity of vanities” Van Albada mainly aims to convey the monumental...
