Occupying the intersection of art, fashion and academia, Dario Calmese is an artist, urbanist, director and brand consultant based in New York. Classically trained in the performing arts, he uses his knowledge of movement, gesture, and psychology to create complex characters and narratives that explore history, race, class, and what it means to be human….
South African artist Sthenjwa Luthuli’s first solo show with Unit London centres on ideas of patience, growth and self-belief. Entitled Imfumbatho, a Zulu term meaning “birth secret,” this new body of work explores the notion of hidden talent and potential, proposing that, from the moment we are born, each of us has a specific purpose…
Prompting heated discussions with her powerful and inevitably divisive works, Moroccan photographer Fatima Zohra Serri’s most controversial image to date is perhaps a self-portrait in which her eyes are masked by a blood stained sanitary towel. The image’s Instagram caption reads: “Make art to speak for women who suffer.” Serri’s practice questions expectations of femininity…
Accra-based photographer Nana Yaw Oduro’s emotionally charged images explore personal narratives staged within seemingly infinite landscapes. In Oduro’s world, figures exist in liminal spaces, positioned between endless beaches and desert plains. His compelling photographs reflect an image of himself and his sensitivity, through the models he captures. The photographer explores themes that echo key subjects…
Honduran-born, New York-based botanic artist Lutfi Janania Zablah was raised among the verdant forests and mountains of San Pedro Sula, gaining an early appreciation for the natural world. Arriving in NYC with just two suitcases, Janania Zablah initially had plans to pursue a career in fashion, with ambitions of working as a stylist. But after…
Brooklyn-based artist and designer Piera Bochner’s mesmeric candles were birthed from a love of wax and a desire to investigate how wicks and flames will travel down new and unconventional paths. The shapes of Bochner’s covetable candles, now stocked at Browns and Farfetch among other retailers, come from pre-existing forms, like Romanesco broccolis and bitter…
London gallery Pilar Corrias presents Sedrick Chisom’s first solo exhibition in the UK, showing paintings and drawings portraying a post-apocalyptic America. Sitting within the Afrofuturist tradition, Chisom’s imagined future is a mystical, speculative narrative which considers the histories of racism and otherness. In Chisom’s world all people of colour have elected to leave earth, while…
The translation of Alewya’s name from Arabic to English means “most high” or “the highest,” so it’s only fitting that her music centres around the idea of transcendence. The west London singer-songwriter, producer and visual artist was born in Saudi Arabia to an Egyptian father raised in Sudan and an Ethiopian mother. Her family relocated…