Ocula Conversation Emi Eu: ‘We have to look at Southeast Asia as one market’ Stephanie Bailey, Singapore STPI's Emi Eu reflects on S.E.A. Focus, an STPI project platforming artists and galleries from Southeast Asia, in the wake of Art Stage's decline in 2019 and ahead of the launch of Singapore's new art fair, Art SG, in October 2020.
Ocula Report New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata: Shows to See Kanika Anand, New Delhi With India Art Fair set to open amid nationwide protests, Kanika Anand introduces shows in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata that express shifting socio-political identities, modes of resistance, and explorations of place-making.
Ocula Insight Images from Abroad: Lada Nakonechna at Galerie EIGEN + ART Phoebe Blatton, Berlin Images from abroad , Lada Nakonechna's solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin, considers the barriers that exist between depictions of conflict and their viewers.
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Related Press Doron Langberg: Likeness 7 October 2019, The Brooklyn Rail The possibility of a queer visuality unfettered by ideas of representation is at the forefront of Doron Langberg's debut exhibition, Likeness, at Yossi Milo Gallery. The Israeli-born artist's large-scale canvases are occupied by sitters in demure postures as well as possibilities for a future and traces of the past, hidden in details that appear...
Related Press Beer with a Painter: Doron Langberg 17 August 2019, Hyperallergic I first encountered one of Doron Langberg's paintings at a group show at Danese Corey in 2015. The exhibition, 8 Painters , was under review for the "Review Panel" (a monthly discussion of current exhibitions) when I was a panelist. Recently I came across my notes for the talk. I had written about "the ghosts hovering" in...
Related Press what pixy liao’s photography tells us about love 13 August 2019, i-D If it wasn't for the film Blow-Up , Pixy Liao may never have become a photographer. Working as a graphic designer in Shanghai and deeply dissatisfied with the lack of creative control she had over her own work, after watching Michelangelo Antonioni's cult classic about a fashion photographer loosely based on David Bailey, she was inspired to make...
Related Press 'I was much more dominant': Pixy Liao's surreal photography disrupts relationship stereotypes 4 January 2019, CNN hen Pixy Liao landed at the University of Memphis in 2006 to study photography, she wasn't quite sure what to photograph. 'I was having culture shock, coming from China,' she said on the phone from her Brooklyn apartment. 'I didn't know who I should be.' She tried landscapes and self-portraiture, using the camera to process her new environment,...
Related Press Pixy Liao’s Experimental Relationship charts a decade of love 9 November 2018, British Journal of Photography Last year, after a decade of creating hundreds of images for a project about her relationship, Pixy Liao decided it was finally time to create a book. 'I'm not a very productive photographer, so I always felt like I didn't have enough images' she says, 'but ten years felt like the right time'.
