Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá
Wanõrĩ só Akwẽ Ktabi! This is how the ancients conceived their identity and place in the world: “We are people, real people.” Edgar Corrêa Kanaykõ, I belong to the Xakriabá indigenous people in the State of Minas Gerais. I work freely in the area of audiovisual and Ethnophotography: “a means of recording aspects of culture—the […]
Paolo Pellegrin
In his series, Sevla, Paolo Pellegrin depicts the lives of an extended family of Bosnian Roma who, since the 1980s, have been settled on the outskirts of his native Rome. While many documentary projects about the Roma focus on poverty, insecurity and oppression, Pellegrin dwells on the closeness of this large family, headed by the […]
DISNOVATION.ORG
The map ONLINE CULTURE WARS is an overlay of hundreds of politicized memes, along with influential political figures and symbols. It is designed as a discussion starter, intended to visualize and contextualize the ongoing online culture wars, and some of the main political references, actors, and influencers. From Twitter to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Gab, or […]
Kimberly dela Cruz
The war on drugs in the Philippines is a campaign against drugs only in concept. On the ground, it is mass slaughter, systematically targeting poor communities through the police operation known as Oplan Tokhang. Police reports revolve around the same scripts: street peddlers who tried shooting at cops during a drug bust were killed in […]
Christian Lutz
I live in a country, Switzerland, in which the right-wing populists are now the foremost political force in the government. I remember how angry I was the night I spent hours and hours removing nauseating flyers they’d left on the windshields of cars all over my neighborhood. That was back in 2013. It was spine-chilling […]
Sinna Nasseri
In 2020, Sinna Nasseri, an Iranian-American photographer with a degree in political science, set off on a year-long road trip to make images under what he described as the ‘dark shadow’ of the forthcoming presidential election. The idea was not just to cover the campaigns but their wider echoes in the culture, even amongst those […]
Joan Fontcuberta / Pilar Rosado
Mainstream and populist political leaders, especially if they are male, frequently share a reputation for sexual profligacy: part of the wages of power, one might say. Mainstream leaders often try to keep their activities in this area quiet, while some populist leaders boast of them as a part of a macho image that aligns bodily […]
Vangelis Vlahos
During the Eurogroup emergency meeting in Brussels on July 7, 2015, newly appointed Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos posed for photographs, with his notes visible to the cameras. In these photos Tsakalotos is depicted shaking hands with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, wearing a crumpled light grey cotton suit, without a tie, and holding his notes […]
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
In 1952, Herbert Read, well-known art critic, and anarchist soon to become a Knight of the Realm, coined the striking phrase ‘the geometry of fear’. It described a new tendency in post-war British sculpture, informed by Existentialism, and characterised by tortured metal forms. By contrast, Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ video, which takes Read’s phrase as its title, […]
Carey Young
Carey Young’s work across video, photography, text, performance and installation explores relations between the body, language, rhetoric and systems of power. Early in her practice her work focused on business and economics, using the tools, language and rituals appropriated from multinational corporations as starting points for her installations, performances, text works and videos. Since 2002 […]
Bani Abidi
The Reassuring Hand Gestures of Big Men, Small Men, All Men (2021), presents an archive of physical posturing and gesture that evokes charisma, camaraderie, and patriotism, which we often associate with a particular vein of masculine leadership. Using news media as her source, Abidi identified specific body language from prominent leaders and heads of state […]
Craig Ames
At first sight, Craig Ames’ collages may seem to be simple political interventions—in the two series on show here about the official presentation of heads of state and about Brexit—but each of their components are rich in meaning and precisely calibrated in their juxtaposition. In Official Portraits for a Post-Truth Era, standard depictions of presidents […]
