As riveting as many of the works on show were, I wasn’t the only one to notice that the fair presented itself as a bubble, completely disconnected from the reality of current Brazil.
Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva
Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva is an art writer with an international relations and strategy background who has been living in Asia for 12 years. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Pipeline (2011), an independent, thematic, contemporary art magazine based in Hong Kong. She regularly contributes to various other publications in Asia, Europe and the US.
In Puerto Rico, a Dedicated Arts Community Commits to Hurricane Relief
Since hurricane Maria hit, the arts nonprofit Beta-Local has been working with a network of artists and organizations on the island to take matters into their own hands.
“It’s All Fear Circulating”: Interpreting a Towering Artwork’s Removal in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — A nine-and-a-half-minute video created a stir here when it opened on the giant LED façade of the International Commerce Centre tower.
Instant Photographs Stripped of Their Instantaneity
HONG KONG — A Permanent Instant at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang gathers works by 10 artists raised or born in Hong Kong who have experimented with the medium of instant photography.
The Surreality of Selling Sex
MANILA — The single focus of Filipino artist Manny Montelibano’s short film “Here, distorted” (2016), on view at 1335Mabini, is the lighted floor of a strip club in Bacolod, a city on the island of Negros where the artist lives and works.
The Candid Poetry and Inclusive Politics of the Jakarta Biennale
JAKARTA — Located in a large warehouse in the south of town, the Jakarta Biennale 2015, titled Neither Forward nor Back, mixes works by Indonesian and international artists.