Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ By Jareh Das, New York Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements By Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight At the freshly opened Winsing Art Place in Taipei, works by Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Vo are being presented in Taiwan for the first time. In this video, the founder of Winsing Arts Foundation, Jenny Yeh, introduces Vo's exhibition.
In her paintings or drawings, Han Jin represents landscapes lucidly imprinted in the body (memory) among superimposed or messed up times. These can but only be expressed as the artist's memories, but they are also those which exist somewhere in some point of time that we also live in; thus, the artist states that her images are "representations" with distinct subjects. To express them, Han traces, explores, and depicts the subject to the limit-which is also an attempt to bodily represent a landscape inscribed in the body and to approach the certain point that the representation takes place in person. The artist eventually let goes of her brush at the moment when everything that only the artist knows becomes exposed. This enables the viewers to get access of the landscape the artist represented, and at last, perceive them inside the time of present.
