A First Look Inside vitruta, London’s New Art-Filled Concept Store

On 8 May, The Luster, a group exhibition featuring ten international artists, opens at vitruta King’s Cross, a newly launched concept store in London’s Coal Drops Yard. Led by Creative Director Serra Duran Paralı, the space is designed in collaboration with Paris-based architect Sofia Cherkaoui of SSStudio+212. Blurring the boundaries between retail, arts venue, and…

Shuyi Cao and the Poetics of Perpetual Transformation

In Shuyi Cao’s world, nothing remains as it was. Driftwood roots twist and metamorphose, transforming gradually – through shells, fish bones, glass – until they arrive, almost imperceptibly, at plastic. Branches spring outward, alien leaves unfurling to reveal tiny, intricate worlds within. The landscape Cao conjures is one governed entirely by transformation, by the perpetual…

Ibrahim El-Salahi: Sudan’s Master of Modernism

“A picture is no more than a mirror, a vehicle that takes one back to one’s self, to turn one’s sight inwards to find the self within,” writes artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Detailed and contemplative, his layered paintings feel at times like workings-out, arithmetic in brushstrokes. Born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, El-Salahi is a pioneer…

Ellipse and Ellipsis: A Manifesto for Spatial Listening

Ellipse and Ellipsis unfolds as a spatial manifesto, continuing a series of curatorial interventions I’ve developed in domestic or transient spaces over the past years. Focused on ephemeral media—voice, sound, performance, and site-specific installations—these practices shape the viewer–work–environment relationship through cohabitation. As the first curated exhibition at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, it felt essential to…

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