Joy Labinjo’s intimate family portraits are based on her archive of photographs, as well as Instagram and Flickr, straddling online and offline worlds and forging links between past and present.
Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.
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Technological Invention Is Not Necessarily the Answer to a Sustainable Future
An exhibition at the Royal Academy suggests that technology is our main hope for a better future, generally ignoring the current discourse around natural climate solutions.
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Creating Soundscapes From the Whispering, Bubbling, and Roaring Earth
Now on view at Art Basel Miami Beach, sound artist Jana Winderen’s The Art of Listening: Under Water draws listeners’ attention to the rich sonic landscapes of nature — and highlights how human activity might affect them.
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Maren Hassinger Reminds Us That Equality Is For Everyone
The power of her work comes from its suggestion that specificity and universality, when it comes to identity and experience, are not mutually exclusive concepts, but often exist side by side.
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Designing a Sculptural Synthetic Skin
Holly Hendry’s works offer an innovative view on the repurposing of materials in art, exploring how things usually considered to be trash can be recycled.
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Antony Gormley Explores the Body as a Space Within a Space
This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.
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The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson
The curators of Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life have highlighted the the open-endedness of his practice by allowing the exhibition to spill out over the boundaries of the ticketed space into corridors, the terrace outside, and other places.
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Rising Tides and Climate Change Color the Venice Biennale This Year
Artistic allusions to rising waters can be found across the Venice Biennale this year, and they strike home with a particular power given the ongoing destruction of the natural world.
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Plastic Capitalism Traces the Phenomenon of “Waste Art”
Plastics have drastically altered our society and environment. A new book by Amanda Boetzkes looks at the material as an artistic medium and eco-cultural signifier.
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An Exhibition Comparing Hockney and van Gogh Searches for Common Ground
A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum brings together depictions of the natural world by Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney.
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Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic
Artist Nancy Campbell’s book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.
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“Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act”: An Interview With Senga Nengudi
In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.
