Pixy Liao is a Chinese artist delving on gender roles and women’s position in today’s society. Her series Experimental Relationship chronicles her relation with her boyfriend Moro and, in her photos she offers alternatives for heteronormativity by placing herself in the man’s position. She imagines and enacts another role where women are not dominated but…

À travers une sélection de 6 livres d’artiste, l’Institut Culturel du Mexique invite l’artiste Lorena Velázquez à partager une parcelle de son univers imager.    Livres Débordés est une rétrospective – non exhaustive – qui met en lumière trois thématiques importantes dans l’oeuvre de Velázquez, à savoir le changement climatique et l’extinction massive des espèces…

We are witnessing the emergence of something radical in the art world, a shifting that’s shaping not only contemporary art but our times. I am referring to the awakening of a social conscience. It might sound inaccurate to write such a statement as many artists have devoted their artistic practice to social causes and have…

Naples is a city of contrasts like most of big cities. But there is something particular that makes it a dramatic figure, almost the perfect personification of Sodom and Gomorre, a city where filth is so near your body that your foot can’t help but rub an empty plastic bottle – if you are lucky….

The animal kingdom as we conceive it in our liberal, cosummerist minds is a perpetual competition between one another, an unforgiven fight to stay at the top of the chain. This is how we have managed to justify our barbarous behaviour towards other species, the environment or even among ourselves.   Instead of interrogating over…

L’architecture est un récit qui va au-delà du langage et des formes d’expression dites « artistiques », elle join forces avec d’autres disciplines faisant d’elle un lieu de rencontre, une passerelle temporelle tissant des liens entre passé et présent. Le travail de l’artiste brésilienne Manoela Medeiros est de nature muable, il se transforme constamment en fonction de…

The gallery week-end has become a rite of passage for every city with a vibrant contemporary cultural scene. Every capital has its own gallery week-end enticing collectors as well as art lovers. From Beijing to Amsterdam, to Seoul and Mexico City, the gallery weekend is an opportunity to satiate your thirst for art. This past…

The 64th edition of the Salon de Montrouge has already took off. 52 artists in total are exhibiting their work in what is to some one of the most expected “rendez-vous” for emerging creators. During my visit I was happily surprised by the number of female artists (31) and the general mood of the pieces…

This is a story of kinship, womanhood, empowerment and all the adjectives describing contemporary female relationships. You might hear this words often but if we continue to use them it’s because they describe so well the unique bond between the five young women.   It all began in Paris but blossomed in Lake Como… when…

Entre le vivant et l’inanimé une fine frontière se dessine rendant difficile la tâche de définir concrètement cet espace transitoire. Un récif frangeant est de la sorte, une frontière entre le foisonnement vital des récifs coralliens et la puissance meurtrière des vagues, le récif frangeant  est là pour protéger la faune et la flore marine….