by Peter Speetjens | 11/06/2020 | Brazil
Nearly six months after his detention in November 2019, João Romano still finds himself under house arrest. “Every night I have to be home at nine,” said the 27-year old. “And on the weekend, I’m not allowed to leave the house at all.” Among the founders of a local...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/06/2020 | Brazil
‘Een project geïnspireerd door de enorme kracht van de vrouwen in deze regio’, leest het op de poster die de Belo Montedam promoot bij binnenkomst in de Braziliaanse stad Altamira. Elders roemen soortgelijke slogans “families” en “cultuur” als inspiratiebron. Met...
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...
