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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
