Ocula Report Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber 15 Mar 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula In Meiro Koizumi's three-channel video installation, The Angels of Testimony (2019), the central frame features an interview with Hajime Kondo about his time as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The conversation centres on war crimes perpetrated in China, including the beheading of Chinese prisoners for...
Ocula Conversation Diana Campbell Betancourt Diana Campbell Betancourt is a curator working predominantly across South and Southeast Asia. Since 2013 she has been the founding artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a transnational art event that has grown in size and scale ever since its first edition in 2012. Backed by...
Ocula Report Chinternet Ugly at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Mar 2019 : Mike Pinnington for Ocula China, home to 802 million internet users, is subject to sophisticated online censorship. This shrouded state of affairs, unsurprisingly perhaps, serves to reinforce stereotypes around conformity elsewhere. Any realm, digital or otherwise, subject to such strict scrutiny must necessarily be bland and uncritical, right? I was mulling over such...
Hiroshi SenjuWaterfall, 2014 Acrylic and fluorescent pigments on Japanese mulberry paper
Fabrizio PlessiCariatide dei Poveri, 1996 Coren steel. suitcases, electric installation, monitor
Baltazar TorresCartongesso / Nuova Vita, 2015 Wood, resin, plastic, acrylic, enamel
Carlos AiresRetablo III, 2015 wooden frame, stucco, 24 carat polished gold leaf, digital print
Carlos AiresDisaster LI (Iraq), 2013 Digital print on Hahnemühle museum paper, original banknote, cardboard, passe-partout, wooden frame with museum glass
