Brazilian photographer Lucas Affonso and Stylist Julliana Araujo present their latest collaboration and creation: BERCHA. Shot in a studio in Rio de Janeiro, where both Lucas and Julliana reside and it gives off nothing but soulful and nostalgic vibes. Set against a silk purple backdrop, what could be your grandmother’s duvet cover, and wooden floor….
Technocratic buzzwords like urban renewal and gentrification provide a bland gloss for a much more sinister and violent reality. In cities throughout the world, poor and working-class people are finding themselves pushed out of their homes to make way for wealthier new residents. This is often achieved through eviction and police violence. Gentrification also intensifies…
“We are three independent curators with a combined local and international experience of more than 20 years in the contemporary art world,” reads the press release for the inaugural UNDERLINE show. Having taken place from the 12th – 15th of September 2019, at the Museum of African Design (MOAD), UNDERLINE is a new annual curatorial…
Curating is caring for the culture, above all by enabling its artistic or creative transformers to pursue their work. This facilitation is done, preferably, with empathy and insight, effectively, and with some style. – Terry Smith, 2015 Struts of steel intersect descending light-beams. Geometric in design, corrugated iron and crosshatched cubes reveal a cerulean sky….
Sao Paulo based photographer Felipe Avila came into the world of photography through a boyfriend who introduced him to the medium three years ago with the allure of a Pentax Spotmatic. From this initial brush with the medium he was inspired to begin shooting on his mother’s old Olympus Trip 35. I had an interview…
Looking in a mirror (an object or a person) means recognizing yourself in an image that goes beyond your body, but that is your body at the same time. It’s an image that speaks and listens, that seems to move away to then come back, that seeks and finds its own space in a continuous…
Based in Spain photographer Mijal Perez Saggio began constructing images four years ago after finishing school and attending the Institut of Photography in Buenos Aires. Attending briefly, she left for Brazil where she stayed for three months photographing natural phenomena and people. After returning home she elaborates that it was difficult for her to create…
“…design is a verb and a noun, being a design artist, allows me to shape shift. Essentially it is the intentional creation of a plan.” Storytelling is all encompassing within the expression of design artist Lunga Ntila. Intersectionality, sexuality and femininity are her building blocks. “I can’t be a singular expression of myself. There’s too…
In the Yoruba language, Dúdús, means “negro, black or dark”—black as the complete absence or complete absorption of light—transcendental and ineffable. It is also the name from which the digital platform Projeto Dúdús takes its title. A creation of visual artist and activist Gabriel Hilair, Projeto Dúdús (now a collective with members Guilherme Teixeira, Mayara…
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together – Publius Ovid Fabric threads form waves of turquoise, periwinkle and…
Boda Boda Lounge project is a cross-continental video art festival that will take place at over 15 spaces across the African continent from 16 – 18 November 2018. Started by two arts organisations, VANSA in Johannesburg and Centre d’art Waza in Lubumbashi, the festival has collaboration and exchange across space and context as its foundation….
pictorial nerve is an ongoing poster series conceived and published by offsetculture.art. The series connects contemporary art, design, illustration and other visual manifestations of culture. I had a chat with offsetculture.art co-founder Lara Koseff to find out more about the recently launched first iteration of this series. Please share more about offsetculture.art? offsetculture.art is a website…
