Approaching art making with a scientific curiosity, Carsten Höller investigates human behaviour through play — producing works often associated with relational aesthetics. Among the artist’s much-referenced interactive works is Psycho Tank, a sensory-deprivation chamber in which participants float weightlessly in a pool. In 2000, he famously installed a slide in the Milan office of designer…
New York-based artist Hannah Levy’s metal, glass, and silicone sculptures are evocative of commonplace items, from domestic fixtures and furniture, to garments and medical equipment, even appearing at times akin to human flesh or food. Her lustrous works reveal an underlying unease as functionality is stripped away from form. Reimagining the familiar as uncanny, Levy…
One of the most influential artists to have emerged from Japan in the last half century, Mariko Mori’s work is grounded in the interconnectedness of all things, delving into universal questions that sit at the junctures of life, death, spirituality, and technology. In her early career, Mori drew inspiration from manga and cyber culture, famously…
In the 1960s, Fluxus emerged as a global, interdisciplinary art movement that sought to merge diverse artistic mediums and blur the lines between art and everyday life. Associated practitioners — spanning visual artists, composers, designers, and poets — adopted a playful and open-minded approach to art making, often using commonplace objects and actions to challenge…
Referencing figures from ancient Greek and Egyptian histories, Japanese animation, and pornography, Sofia Mitsola creates her own mythological characters, staging them in grand and theatrical compositions. Opening on 5 June 2024, Pilar Corrias presents Villa Venus: The Garden, an exhibition of new works by the London-based artist. The show marks the latest chapter in her…
For close to four decades, Studio Ghibli has managed to capture the hearts of audiences world over — with brilliant storytelling, enchanting animation, and well-developed characters whose experiences resonate across cultures and generations. Co-founded by legendary directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, along with master producer Suzuki Toshio, the studio creates films that blend fantastical…
Hailing from Natal, on Brazil’s northeastern tip, multidisciplinary artist Jota Mombaça describes herself as a nonbinary travesti of colour, reclaiming the Latin American slang. Working between Lisbon and Amsterdam, the artist is featured in the Disobedience Archive at the Arsenale of the 60th Venice Biennale, and recently showcased video installations, a series of ceramics, and,…
Exploring the fantasmas — ghosts, memories and echoes — that exist imperceptibly in the spaces we inhabit, Sofía Salazar Rosales’ practice draws from the languages of sculpture, installation and architecture, asking the question, “What if walls could talk?” Traversing various mediums, her works eschew categorisation, extending and unravelling unseen and unsung details of the world…