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Material Explorations: Waste Streams Programme at Makerversity
My first project as Programme Producer at Makerversity was the delivery of the Waste Streams Exhibition alongside its events and workshops, showcasing works by Makerversity members which aim to incorporate and re-use waste as part of their making and design process. You can read the full blog here! Extract: “Making sustainable change possible can feel…
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Intimate displacements: The UK corridor of Art Rooms Fair London 2018
‘Intimate displacements’ was originally published within the catalogue of Art Rooms London 2018, January 2018. You wake up and for a moment suspended in thought you do not know where you are in the world. The components are there – bed, sheets, sunlight streaming through, but their meaning is softly blurred like a smudged scrawl…
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Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain
You could almost miss it – a small house-like structure, whitish-grey under a pale January sun, like a shy guest in Tate Britain’s front yard. Rachel Whiteread’s Chicken Shed (2017) is one of the many outdoor structures which the British sculptor has chosen to cast from the inside out – recording its absence rather than its…
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WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, at Palais de Tokyo
The refugee crisis seen through the lens of contemporary art has been a recurring source of debate in the past year. What can the art world could do to raise awareness around refugees’ travelling and living conditions? How can artistic engagement change our society’s relationship with migration? Where do we draw the line between awareness and…
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Golem at Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme in Paris
If (as the Greek affirmed in the Cratylus) the name is archetype of the thing in the letters of “rose” is the rose and all the Nile in the word “Nile”. And, made of consonants and vowels, there’ll be a terrible Name, which guards in precise letters and syllables the ciphered essence of God and…
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The Japanese House at Barbican Centre
A chaotic queue of people leaving their luggage at the cloakroom and half blocking the doors to the exhibition entrance created a strange contrast with the calm and minimalistic atmosphere I found there when I made it past the doors. As a display text unfurled on the right, a white staircase awaited ahead, underneath which…
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BLU’s street art animation
Street art mocks permanence and stillness. Even though there may be a documented trace of a graffiti on a wall, nothing can predict the length of time it shall stay up, whether it will stand its ground for years or barely a night. It could stand the test of time or end up covered in…
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Jake Fried
Defining where animation ends and where it begins starts with the trickiness in defining what is “animated” and what is not. Is the “illusion” of movement all it takes? Or are there more subtle rules at play? Or is there simply a way to make everything animate itself depending on how you see it? Time-lapses…
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Eli Lotar (1905-1969) at the Jeu de Paume
The first photographers of modern life did not only have an entire realm of subjects and spaces at their fingertips waiting to be captured on film for the first time . In more ways than one their angles of vision created an entire new language in order to grasp, understand and reflect the world in…
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Claire Mead 