Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Roberto Gil de Montes immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 13, settling in East Los Angeles shortly before the 1968 Chicano protests for educational equality. A graduate of Otis Art Institute, he became closely associated with the Chicano Movement. Gil de Montes played a pivotal…
Born in Ethiopia and based in Italy since childhood, Jem Perucchini’s work is profoundly influenced by art history. The Milan-based artist mines visual archetypes from all over the world, spanning imagery of the Early Renaissance, African traditions, and Christian iconography, combining these elements in his vibrant oil paintings. His works adeptly forge cultural bridges while…
Hailing from Addis Ababa, Ethiopian artist Elias Sime is best known for his large-scale reliefs made from recycled consumer electronics. He creates expansive mosaics comprising keyboards, circuits, and wires, among other e-waste imported into his home country. Sime’s works serve as records of the global exchange of commodities, and the conceptual transformations of matter from…
Based between Cairo and London, Egyptian artist, Zeina Aref, traverses various mediums and processes to convey the nuances of cultural and social landscapes — often referencing and reimagining the traditions of her home country. Her education in Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins helped shape her visually arresting work, which focuses on the exploration of…
Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape’s artistic practice explores manifold notions of memory, encompassing the individual and collective, the known and unknown. Working with commonplace and elemental materials like soil, bricks and timber, as well as found objects, archival imagery, video and sound, the artist creates complex and multisensory installations. Through her experimental work, she investigates remembering…
Hailing from Lagos, London-based multidisciplinary artist Ken Nwadiogbu recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting. On his canvases, stories are superimposed in manifold layers. Nwadiogbu explores weighty themes in unfettered colour, inviting us to address matters from Black representation and identity to displacement and socio-political control. Open now and…
Hailing from New York, artist Esteban Jefferson’s practice explores matters of race, identity and the legacies of colonialism. Utilising photography, drawing, painting and sound as forms of documentation, Jefferson typically depicts the focal points of his compositions in great detail, creating a stark contrast between the subject or object in focus and the surrounding environment….
While Tunisia boasts a rich cultural heritage spanning millennia, a significant shift occurred in the dynamics between art and politics in the country following the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. An era of censorship gave way to a freedom of expression, sparking questions on how to use it. Pioneering the way in the contemporary art sphere, established…