It’s been a few months since I’d been to an exhibition that made me think, reflect upon and decide to write about it. When I read that Sylwia Kowalczyk’s photography exhibition launching at Summerhall was inspired by Lethe, one of 5 rivers of Hades from where people that just died […]
Fringe festival is the most welcoming art event of the world. Anyone who wants to can be part of it in any way they want; artists, audience and staff make a big celebrating community, all of them excited, overwhelmed and also tired for different reasons but in the same spirit […]
Maybe it was because that warm Saturday afternoon in May my friend Kleopatra – who is an environmental scientist – and I had just come back from a plant identification excursion, that it felt right to go and visit City Art Centre on the first day of their Robert Callender […]
When this painting was made in 1997 I was a child and very fond of mainstream cartoon characters, which I would occasionally try to draw myself, very much unsuccessfully. I do remember having a very strong bond with those figures, considering them as being my friends from a different world, […]
Exhilarated is how I feel when visiting Amsterdam; it’s the topos of my innermost nostalgia, the only place that keeps me focused on each and every present moment as I’m surrounded by people who make me feel like I’m home in a very special way that has nothing to do […]
It was the name of this exhibition that caught my attention and made me want to visit Embassy Gallery for the opening event. I have always been fascinated by Fractals, these patterns of chaos in absolute harmony, but how would that translate into an art exhibition and most importantly, what […]
There’s something special about films without any narration or dialogue; it’s like imagery and soundtrack bear a subjective meaning, guided in a very gentle, liberal and profound way that’s perceived as intuitive knowledge. That’s why I’ve always been fond of such video installations and the main reason why I chose […]
Paradigm is an electronic arts and music festival that brought together many visual and sound artists to present a vibrant, cheerful and interactive event at the Biscuit Factory in Leith, Edinburgh. Being a genuine promoter of the avant-garde, Paradigm staged the innovative works of Alan Brown, Ray Interactive, Hostel Freaks, […]
Bonkers Contemporary, founded and curated by Freddie Thomas, is an annual visual art event offering a platform for creative and radical ideas to be shared by new artists of different background and practice. This year, The Biscuit Factory seems like the perfect choice to host this unique and erratic exhibition, […]
One of the things I was very much looking forward to doing on my next visit to Amsterdam, was to explore art spaces I never had the chance to visit as a student. Timing couldn’t have been better when I found myself wandering around the city’s canal streets at the […]