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Amsterdam
Amsterdam The Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, and Amsterdam in the Hortus Botanicus. Photo of the week: Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
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Models
Models Over the past few months, I have shown you a selection of contemporary artworks that caught my eye – usually in a positive way – at the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale. There were more, and still more that didn’t particularly appeal to me, but I think that’s enough for now.And what better way to conclude…
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The peephole
The peephole In 2011, Alexander Yuzef created an installation comprising several small black boxes, in which two eyes gaze at you through a rectangular peephole. On either side of the peephole is a mirror positioned at a 45° angle. If you move slightly in front of the box, you can see the reflections of what…
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Fragmented Memories
Fragmented Memories In his Fragmented Memories, Abul Kalam Azad brings together memories from different years in layered images. The memories are personal, ancestral and also political. They overlap and influence one another. This results in intriguing images in which the years intertwine and there are no clear-cut timelines.I think you could compare it to dreams;…
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Painting grass
Painting grass Painting grass is what Priti Vadakkath does with great dedication, filling canvases, each several metres long. This is what she has to say about it: “The Shola Grasslands series is a continuing body of work directly inspired by the vast landscape of Udumbanchola, Idukki, (Kerala), where I live and work on my farm.…
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Parliament of Ghosts
Parliament of Ghosts Ibrahim Mahane first developed the concept of Parliament of Ghosts in his hometown of Tamale, Ghana. He has since staged it in various locations, including Manchester (2019) and the Venice Biennale in 2023, adapting it each time to the political and economic history of the city. Partly coinciding with a version staged…
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A happy union
A happy union Kulpreet Singh creates works (films, paintings) centred on the practice of farmers burning stubble in their fields in the Punjab and the air pollution this causes across a wide area, as far as New Delhi. It is an annual phenomenon that sparks widespread social discontent.What I wish to focus on here, however,…
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A reflection
A reflection In her installation ‘Black Gold’ at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Yasmin Jahan Nupur has charted the economic significance of black pepper throughout the centuries. Along with this significance, she has also traced the trade routes by land and sea, and the colonial domination by Europe of overseas territories where this ‘black gold’ was found.…
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Out for a stroll
Out for a stroll Out for a stroll in Kochi, enjoying a welcome break from all the impressions I’d gathered during my visit to the contemporary art biennial. Incidentally, it’s an event that, to my delight, attracts a large young audience from Kerala and other parts of India. Photos of the week: Kochi, Kerala, India…
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Transformation
Transformation Medical stretchers and autopsy tables, assembled and transformed into the building blocks of an installation that evokes the atmosphere of a mortuary.It is particularly the painted stretchers, suspended vertically from a white wall, that catch my eye. With their strong forms and beautiful colours, they have been transformed into true works of art. Photos…
καιρός remembered
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