By Eve Wood
At thirteen, I knew I had been chosen. There were fleeting signs early on, whispered cries of sedition and always the faintest echo of a woman’s voice fanning the flames of my own wild heart. Who was she and what did she want with me? Sometimes I would catch a glimpse of the side of her face, suffused in blue light and always the scent of mandarin when the headaches came….
By Briá Purdy
An avant garde artistic movement of Mexicanidad emerged, forefronted by artists like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Although their part in the revolution was hardly recognised, the contributions made by female artists to the movement cannot be undermined. There are two major photographers who were crucial in reconstructing Mexican national identity: Graciela Iturbide and Lola Álvarez Bravo.
By Ed Schad
As people, later in life, begin to mourn the lives they were never able to live, common laments involve time and undeveloped talents, misplaced priorities, and lack of attention to what could have been the great loves of one’s life. I personally mourn a never achieved facility with languages. … I can only stare at Paul Celan’s poems through the wet glass of translation.
By Jana Zimmer
“Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget?” A Palestinian-American lawyer said this, but everyone who hears it, thinks it is about them.
by Susan Horowitz
Through an international project about Bauhaus-influenced architecture that has been rediscovered, I came to focus on Ben-Ami Shulman (b. Jaffa 1907–d. Los Angeles 1986), who was posthumously recognized …
Xavier Veilhan interviewed by Dorothée King
On a summer day in 2022 I visited the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. I was drawn into and intrigued by the diverse simplicity and the all-embracing beauty of the colorful lines of Xavier Veilhan’s A3-sized ink on paper lockdown drawings…
Daryoush Gharahzad (b. 1976) is an Iranian artist currently based in New York. His artwork has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications. Alongside this, he has be included in several books, including The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation by Glenn Harcourt, which explores the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran.
By Carrie Paterson
In 2013, my art-science research practice was nearly derailed by chronic-recurring Epstein-Barr, a post-viral weakening of the immune system that is commonly associated with chronic fatigue, and which has many similar effects on a person as COVID “long hauler” syndrome. But this experience opened a new portal into the potentially deep relationship between somatic art practices and human factors in astronautics.
BY AHMED NAJI -أحمد ناجى
The shop walls were covered with wooden planks, on those planks, drawings of people in a state of motion. They were crossing the street or leaving a building, but here they were stuck in a void.
That was the first exhibition by “Amr El Kafrawy” for me to attend. We met for a short interview. He told me about his work approach: sitting in some “internet café” overlooking Talaat Harb square in the Downtown area, getting out a small camera while watching people, and secretly taking photographs of them. Afterward, he drew on those photographs to put them back in a state of motion. He turned them into black shadows crossing the empty wooden planks covering the “Artellewa” gallery walls.
By Lauren “LP” Spencer
Barnette’s exhibition creates an immersive experience that guides the audience into her world to confront political, social, and familial issues related to state-sponsored, racialized surveillance, intimidation, and violence.
The Nomadic Journal 