Nicola Lo Calzo (b. 1979, Italy) lives and works between Paris, West Africa and the Caribbean. Taking into account the issues of colonialism, intersectionality and identity politics, his work focuses on the struggles of minority groups, both historically and in the present. For the past ten years, the artist has been working on Cham. This long-term project spans fifteen countries, and focuses on the persisting legacies of colonialism and slavery. Photo credit Valerie Baeriswyl
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Jeanne Mercier,
Critic and curator
“To date, traces of the Underground Railroad legacy in New York State are rare and selected. Bundles of Wood wishes to address this double standard in the way of preserving the local heritage and at th...“
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Celso Filho,
Journalist and writer
“Aline Motta’s research on her heritage not only provides us with insightful work on memory and archival research, it also offers powerful counter-narratives to Brazil's history and its knotty relation...“
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Delphine Bedel,
Artist, editor and publisher
“How to live in times of global warming? Experimenting with new and out-of-date colour negatives and photographic paper, Małgorzata’s landscapes are flamboyant, mesmerising, haunting. Each page of Las...
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Salvatore Vitale,
Visual artist, editor and educator
“Alexandra Baumgartner's work is an invitation to consider our position within nature. She takes a closer look at the consequences of our relationship with ecosystems and the way we define, influence ...
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Paulius Petraitis,
Artist, curator and theorist
“Reinis Lismanis's photographic work focuses on the minutiae of daily life, while experimenting playfully with technical processes. His latest venture, Trial and Error, opens up the possibilities cont...
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Marisa Bellani,
Founder & Director, Roman Road
“I’ve always been captivated by Alix Marie’s works; they have this unsettling effect on my sense of perception in the way she fluidly moves from sculpture to photography and back again.” - Marisa Bell...
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Nicole Acheampong,
Editorial Assistant, Aperture Magazine
“The images in Gao Shan’s The Eighth Day cradle an unsettled intimacy. With unblinking yet tender portraits, Shan hoists viewers into urgent proximity to his adoptive mother’s domestic rituals, body, ...
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Daria Tuminas,
Head of Unseen Book Market
Winner of the Unseen Dummy Award 2019, Moritz Jekat’s photobook Non ya is a portrayal of his newly formed multinational family in Berlin. By stripping away the associations of origin and heritage, eac...
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Jeanne Mercier,
Critic and curator
“To date, traces of the Underground Railroad legacy in New York State are rare and selected. Bundles of Wood wishes to address this double standard in the way of preserving the local heritage and at th...“
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Maria Pia Bernardoni,
Curator
“To me, Joana Choumali’s canvases are like visual poems, suggesting images more than showing them, making you feel and not only see. Alba’hian is a project that speaks directly to the observer’s subcon...“
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Unseen Dummy Award, Ross Sawyer’s project The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be depicts self-made constructions seen through the eyes of the camera. Although deliberately refusi...
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