Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
Ocula Conversation Mandy El-Sayegh: Productive Ambiguity Moving across installation, painting, drawing, and writing, Malaysia-born and London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh explores the political, social, and economic complexities of humanity, using a mosaic of information—from advertising slogans and pornographic imagery to newspaper articles—that she subjects to processes of layering,...
Ocula Report Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House 5 Jul 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House in London (12 June–15 September 2019) surveys more than half a century of black creativity in Britain and beyond across the fields of art, film, photography, music, design, fashion, and literature.Curated by Zak Ové, works by approximately 100 intergenerational black...
Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai (27 July–13 October 2019) is the artist's largest solo exhibition to date in China. In this video for Ocula, Bradford and Diana Nawi, curator of the show, walk through selected works that convey the artist's concerns with global unity and social justice.
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Mandy El-Sayegh talks about the body, fragmentation, and the mutability of language in her work in this discussion with Para Site Deputy Director Claire Shea, which took place ahead of the artist's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Dispersal (11 July–23 August 2019).
Read More By CLAIRE SHEAMandy El-Sayegh. Photo: Abtin Eshraghi.
Currently exhibiting photographs from 'Experimental Relationship' (2007–ongoing) and 'For Your Eyes Only' (2012–ongoing) at Les Rencontres d'Arles (1 July–22 September 2019), Pixy Liao discusses the influence of Memphis on her practice, and upending conservative notions of gender in her photography.
Read More By EMMA-KATE WILSONPixy Liao. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Nathalie Guio.
Ocula Conversation Pixy Liao: Learning to Live Together In 2007, while still at university studying for her MFA in photography, Pixy Liao met her Japanese boyfriend, Moro. As Moro was five years her junior, they fell naturally into male submission/female domination roles, and their relationship sparked the ongoing series, 'Experimental Relationship' (2007–ongoing), which challenges gender roles. In...
Ocula Conversation Patty Chang: From Xinjiang to the Atlantic Ocean Since the 1990s, Patty Chang, an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, has drawn on the parallels between her body's internal workings and the environmental landscape through writing, sculpture, video, installations, and performance art. In Chang's early performances, her body takes central position as both object and subject—a...
Ocula Conversation Ima-Abasi Okon: ‘I’m not interested in cohesiveness at all’ Ima-Abasi Okon's current solo exhibition at East London's Chisenhale Gallery is epically titled Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Hand Claps of M's Hard'Loved'Flesh [I'M irreducibly-undone because]—Quantum Leanage-Complex-Dub (28 June–1 September 2019). In the show, the anaemic and characterless...
Ocula Report ‘An Opera for Animals’ at Rockbund Art Museum 19 Jul 2019 : Penny Liu for Ocula An Opera for Animals was first staged at Para Site in Hong Kong between 23 March and 2 June 2019, with works by over 48 artists and collectives that use opera as a metaphor for modes of contemporary, cross-disciplinary art-making. The exhibition's second iteration takes up a large portion of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai (22 June–25...
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