The Brazilian Artist Forcing Us to Look Into Each Other’s Eyes

A pioneer of “objetos relacionais” – “relational objects” in English – Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s interactive sculptures blur the lines between art and body, recasting the viewer as participant. Born in 1920 in Belo Horizonte, a city surrounded by mountains in southeastern Brazil, Clark, formally trained in painting, became closely associated with the Brazilian Constructivist…

How Penique Productions Transformed a Tribeca Basement into a Pink Wonderland

Barcelona-based art collective Penique Productions unveils its latest immersive installation Basement today as part of Inflation, the inaugural exhibition at The Locker Room’s new Tribeca gallery in New York. Known for their site-specific inflatable environments that reimagine architectural spaces – including Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Lage Visual Art School, Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2024 runway at…

Ibrahim El-Salahi: Sudan’s Master of Modernism

“A picture is no more than a mirror, a vehicle that takes one back to one’s self, to turn one’s sight inwards to find the self within,” writes artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Detailed and contemplative, his layered paintings feel at times like workings-out, arithmetic in brushstrokes. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, El-Salahi is a pioneer…

Mythmaking in the Information Age: In Conversation with Eunjo Lee

Bringing together a body of work that blends 3D animation, mythology and ecological speculation, South Korean artist and filmmaker Eunjo Lee returns to her alma mater—where she graduated just last year—for a solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA. The presentation, titled Before the Shadow Taught the Sun, is part of the gallery’s Episodes series, a programme…

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