In the endless Zoom calls, especially during the pandemic, one had to navigate the time zones. Setting your meeting to CET—Central European Time—you see many cities listed, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Rome, but almost never Tirana, Kyiv or Warsaw, which are part of the former Eastern bloc…
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In her photographs, Yevgenia Belorusets focuses on the most vulnerable social groups, such as the Romani and the Sinti in the Donbas region.
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Her work is a museum or cabinet of curiosities of herself. References include Warburg’s Bilderatlas, mood walls in teenage bedrooms, Pinterest boards or the detective boards studied by art historian W…
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Where does the heart of Europe lie? Determining the geographical centre of Europe is ambiguous due to factors such as the inclusion of certain islands and the determination of Europe’s borders…
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Fascinated by the 15th-century Persian text “The Ball and the Polo Stick or the Book of Ecstasy”, Furqat Palvan-Zade embarks on a journey across Central Asia. His journey takes him to the nomadic nations, the original inventors of polo, a sport we now primarily associate with the privileged English class…
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When invited to participate in the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Meiro Koizumi drew inspiration from the fate of the Koryo-Saram, Koreans living in the territory of the Soviet Union, from where they were deported by Stalin and thus deprived of their cultural identity…
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In the film Spider’s Envy, Genti Korini explores the relationship between aesthetics and social imagination, examining how these elements manifest themselves in the juxtaposition of modernity with the cultural and historical framework of his native country, Albania…
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The installation Bruises on my Knees (2023) is a work involving hand embroidery, objects, text, and photography. The work is about the experiences of a young queer man searching for his own place in society, coming face to face with his own trauma, mental health, and familial and intimate relationships, and through this reflection stimulating a space for self-healing and rediscovering one’s own self-worth…
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