Tag: Humanities
How the realities of sex work, political performance, digital self-surveillance and aesthetic anxiety expose the contradictions at the heart of contemporary identity
David Rothenberg’s long-term visual study of Landing Lights Park exposes how the proximity of landing planes shapes the lived experience of East Elmhurst—where infrastructure divides bodies and communities
Through the lens of Lorenzo Venturini: Home Fetish unveils the ambiguous relationship between the self and domestic space, where comfort becomes obsession and everyday objects turn into fetishes
From trauma to care, absence to collective memory: The Max Mara Art Prize for Women as a space of production, reflection, and resistance in European contemporary art history
A provocation for Pride Month. Human activity pollutes, and bringing children into the world makes things worse: will same-sex couples be the saviours of the Anthropocene?
From Paris suburbs to Philadelphia stables, Mohamed Bourouissa interrogates the politics of representation and community in urban peripheries across twenty years of projects
The power of statues lies in their resemblance to us. Any human body could be cast in stone or bronze. Yet, as Judith Butler reminds us, for a body to be monumentalized it must first matter
Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities
As a teenager, Mathis Chevalier had trouble fitting into the school system. MMA helped him with his anger and frustration, until he decided it was time to deconstruct machismo
The archiving of softness, Spyros Rennt continues his documentary work, showing a side of queer subculture we haven’t seen from his lens before in his new self-published photobook, Intertwined