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Nazneen Ayyub-Wood: BurKars

There is a key moment in The Rebel where the misunderstood artist is stuck on a millionaire’s yacht in Monte Carlo where he has been bullied into making a sculpture of this important art collector’s trophy wife. 

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The Black Humor of O Zhang’s Little Red Book

It was only a matter of time before a Chinese artist modelled a catalogue on Mao’s Little Red Book. To her credit, the artist O Zhang’s version, The World is Yours (But Also Ours), feels less like a gimmick than a quotation, an allusion that chimes resonantly with her subject matter.

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Torsten Warmuth: The Great Flaneur

The artist Torsten Warmuth lives in Berlin, but he has been making photographic forays into other metropolises such as New York, Paris, Buenos Aires or Cairo since the mid-nineties. Warmuth’s images seek to capture the fleeting qualities of life; they are energised by rippling mists, a deliberate lack of clarity that conceals the emotions and impetus behind entire societies. 

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Farida Batool: The Lady Vanishes

A girl standing in a mustard field looks straight into the camera; she is wearing a summer dress over which is put a suicide-bomber’s vest. As we pass by the photograph, the girl slowly dissolves and we are left watching a collage of black and white and bright yellow flowers surrounded by a garden wall.

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Gregg Lefevre: Defacing Corporate Cool

Since the mid-1980s, Gregg LeFevre has been documenting the dialogue in cities around the world and in particular, in New York. His photographs illustrate the accidental, premeditated, random, and fleeting ways that a city’s inhabitants – from protestors to pigeons – often respond to commercial messaging.

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Luis Salaberria

Negro, noche, oscuridad... vivimos tiempos sombríos? Vienen días más oscuros, o lo peor pasó ya, y nunca nada será todo tan negro como lo fue... antes? Eclipse de sol, miedo al futuro... lo que está por venir, será también negro?

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Jompet Kuswidananto

Agustinus Kuswidananto aka Jompet created a series titled Java’s Machine since mid of 2008. This new media work consists of video and sound installation, sculptural figure and site-specific performance projects that have developed into some series of work exhibited internationally in some biennales and many other international exhibitions. 

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