Open now and running until 8 January 2023, London’s Hayward Gallery presents Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, an ambitious group exhibition exploring how contemporary artists have used the medium of clay in inventive and unexpected ways. Given the recent surge of interest in ceramics by artists around the world, as well as countless people…
On Friday 21 October 2022, Ivorian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Ramata Cissé presented her performance installation Wondane at Montreal’s Fonderie Darling. Curated by James Oscar and Fabienne Parisien, the presentation comprised a performative video installation, alongside the artist’s inaugural sculptural works, taking the form of imposing bronze utensils, accompanied by a series of photographs. Cissé, recently an…
Ethel Tawe, born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, is a multidisciplinary artist and curator exploring visual and sonic archives, memory, and identity in Africa and its diaspora. Using collage, pigments, words, installation, still and moving images, Tawe examines space and time-based technologies often from a magical realist lens. Her burgeoning curatorial practice took form in an inaugural…
London-based artist and performer bones tan jones’ practice proposes an optimistic dystopia, one that is envisioned through a queer lens. Through pop music, ritual, craft, sculpture, alter-egos, and moving image, tan jones weaves a mycelial web of diverse narratives which aim to connect, enthral and induce audiences to think more sustainably and ethically. Open now…
Baghdad-born Los Angeles-based Hayv Kahraman’s multifaceted practice explores gender and body politics, migrant consciousness, and the marginal spaces of diasporic life, drawing from her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe and then the United States. Kahraman’s canvases feature female figures that she describes as extensions of her own body; however, these women…
Photographer, designer and filmmaker Hassan Hajjaj has strong ties to both Morocco and the UK. Born in the fishing town of Larache, Morocco in 1961, Hajjaj relocated to London aged twelve. Growing up immersed in London’s club culture as it was taking shape profoundly influenced the artist’s practice and approach to creativity. Reconnecting with his…
Harley Weir has garnered an international reputation as one of the most in-demand creatives working today. An image-maker who continually subverts the expected, Weir has enormously influenced ideas of how a woman’s gaze might be engaged with, reshaped and made new in our current era. For Weir, the camera is a vehicle for gaining knowledge;…
The interdisciplinary practice of Donna Huanca traverses painting, sculpture, performance, choreography, video and sound, combining to form a unique multisensory language underpinned by collaboration. At the very heart of her output is an exploration of the human body and its relationship to space and identity. Her live sculptural pieces, or in the artist’s words, “original…