British Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962, UK) has been a well-known figure in the British art scene for four decades, but her new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery aims to tell the lesser-known story of her artistic journey. An Awkward Relation affords Boyce a rare opportunity to pause and look backwards at a key turning…
The first ‘merch’, as we know it today, is thought to have been made for fans of Elvis Presley. Colonel Parker, Elvis’s talent manager, signed a deal in July 1956 for a company to produce everything from T-shirts to sneakers and belts, all emblazoned with the rockn’roller. By December of the same year, the range…
Indonesian artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi’s work explores the relationship between science, fiction, and technology. Opened earlier this month and on view at Gasworks in London until 22 December 2024, Mirage is the artist’s first UK solo exhibition. Comprising the first and second chapter of an ambitious, ongoing, ten-year project, the exhibition centres on a…
Transformation, reincarnation, augmentation, rejuvenation … Are we simply entering Halloween season, or is something more sinister lurking in the shadows? Something we’ve long tried to keep at bay? This month’s feature is a Halloween special double bill, spotlighting two movies which hold up to us a concave mirror by exploring our hyperfixation with the body,…
The masonn project, a transmedia and transnational artistic initiative, brings together diverse perspectives on vernacular architecture, mystical realism, and Afro-diasporic memory. How do populations, shaped by colonisation and displacement, use architecture and space-making as forms of survival and creativity? How do these communities, both distinct and connected, resist oppression through the transformation of their environments…
London-based multidisciplinary artist Imran Perretta works across moving-image, sound, performance and poetry, probing topics from biopower and marginality to the construction and deconstruction of cultural histories through his practice. The artist’s latest commission, A Riot in Three Acts — on view now and running until 10 November 2024 at Somerset House Studios — reflects on…
Fonts, like most aesthetic things, go through trend cycles. But in recent years it has seemed that serifs – the twiddly bits on the edges of letters – had become a thing of the past. The only fonts we paid any attention to were twiddly bit-free, straight-edged, or sans-serif. See the striking Futura originally taken…
New York-based artist Justin Chance’s practice centres around an ongoing series of quilts the artist primarily fabricates from felted wool encased in silk organza. Recognising the political histories and personal potentialities of quilting, Chance views these works as both pictorial surfaces and objects in their own right, ones in which memories, suggestions of narrative, and…