The long and storied history of perfume spans thousands of years, with the earliest remnants of perfume making practices hailing from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Cyprus. The English word “perfume” is derived from the Latin “per fume,” meaning “through smoke.” It is widely believed that the ancient Egyptians were the first to introduce perfume into…
Tanzanian artist and writer Valerie Asiimwe Amani is the inaugural Roberts Institute of Art (RIA) and South London Gallery (SLG) Performance Artist in Residence. Amani, who studied at the Ruskin School of Art, works across performative video, text, textiles and installation. The artist’s five-week residency will culminate in a live performance at the SLG from…
From Sophie Calle’s The Chromatic Diet, in which the artist proposed a meal plan restricted to one colour on any given day, to Rirkrit Tiravanija’s relational dining experiences, and Bompas & Parr’s intricate jelly worlds, artists and designers have long been fascinated by our relationship with food, exploring ideas around sustenance and social behaviours, as…
Through his eponymous label MARCO, Brazilian-born, Paris-based fashion designer Marco Ribeiro reinterprets French artisanal garment making techniques through a South American sensibility, embracing bright colours, a love of movement, and an uninhibitedly playful energy. MARCO presents an outlook that celebrates diversity, union and most of all joy, with a mission to empower people to express…
Curated by New York-based Italian curator Cecilia Alemani, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes its title The Milk of Dreams from a book of drawings by the surrealist Leonora Carrington, in which the artist describes a world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination, where everyone…
Hailing from São Paulo, for over a decade, Indonesian-Brazilian artist Daniel Lie has been working with organic materials to create immersive large-scale pieces that simultaneously grow and decay. Exploring the idea of rotting as a way to complicate conventional binary oppositions between life and death, Lie understands their works as living entities possessing awareness and…
Multi-disciplinary artist Manuel Mathieu works across painting, ceramics and installation. Through his diverse practice, he investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature and spiritual legacy. Mathieu’s interests are informed in part by his upbringing in Haiti, and his experience relocating to Montreal at the age of 19. Freely operating in…
Located near the foothills of the Sivalik range of the Himalayas in northwest India, Chandigarh is regarded as one of the best experiments in urban planning and modern architecture in the 20th century, and famed French architect Le Corbusier is widely credited with planning and designing it. However, alongside Le Corbusier were other visionaries like…