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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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...
Selected by
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 sub...
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Unseen Platform
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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Diane Smyth,
Writer and editor
Through an extensive video archive – amassed by a global team of some 50 researchers – Anouk Kruithof’s Universal Tongue presents a visual anthropology of online dance footage from the internet age.
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Unseen Platform
With monochrome photographs suspended in time, Sybren Vanoverberghe captures the textures of the Iranian desert.
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Rebecca Leona van Enter,
Artist and Gallery Liaison, Unseen
“Carefully aligning colourful 3D blocks, Erin O’Keefe’s abstract compositions play with space and spatial perception. The resulting photographs trick the eye, and are often mistaken for paintings.“
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Trine Stephensen,
Commissioning Editor, Unseen
Combining prose with photographs from an abandoned archive, Pablo Lerma’s multilayered photobook plays with history, memory and fiction.
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Amelie Schüle,
Curator, Unseen
“The importance and complexity of Zohra Opoku’s work, both in her approach to the photographic medium and in the themes she explores, calls for more intimate engagement…“
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