Political

INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila

INTERVIEW | Natalia Ludmila

Natalia Ludmila was born in Mexico City and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice shifts between painting, drawing, video, and sound. It can be defined as studio-based research that points to the political—questioning forms of representation and the construction of false or biased narratives in the context of conflict.

INTERVIEW | Marlon Tabone

INTERVIEW | Marlon Tabone

Marlon Tabone is a Maltese artist currently based in London (UK). He creates conceptual pieces using computational and mixed media. The life and work of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (“One Woman Wiki Leaks”), who was assassinated in Bidnija, Malta on October 16th 2017, is celebrated through Tabone’s 2020 piece “In Memoriam."

INTERVIEW | Otilia Iliescu

INTERVIEW | Otilia Iliescu

Otilia Iliescu is a Romanian artist from Iași, Moldova region. Her artworks revolve around political or social issues, and she usually works together with psychologists, therapists, and people from the law and politics fields to complete her projects. Otilia started as a painter and redirected herself towards performances, sound design, and installations.

INTERVIEW | Marcel Top

INTERVIEW | Marcel Top

Marcel Top is a 23 years old London-based Belgian photographer. Alongside his traditional use of photography, Top also explores the limits and boundaries of the medium through his practice. Top has always been fascinated by the power of technology, by the ambiguity of its double-faced nature. Breach of privacy, mass surveillance, and the collection of personal data is among Top’s recurring topics.

INTERVIEW | Kinnari Saraiya

INTERVIEW | Kinnari Saraiya

Kinnari Saraiya is an Indian artist based in the UK. Having grown up with the stories of the colonial empire told by her grandfather, she is fascinated by the physical evidence of this history in the landscape of India and England. It voices a counterculture of stories which depicts the dysfunctions of the world and forces a new type of meaning to be created through her work.

INTERVIEW | Fdez

INTERVIEW | Fdez

The art of Fdez explores social issues influenced by our current world and infused with a reflection of his divided Dominican/American heritage. It uses surrealism, allegory, sarcasm, satire, symbolism & impactful images to compose works that critique world cultures, religions, and social/political issues from the world we live in, with the intent to capture human emotion in response to these.

INTERVIEW | Barry Wolfryd

INTERVIEW | Barry Wolfryd

The work investigates the exploration and exploitation of “human symbology,” the many “forms” of how we relate to ourselves and others. Wolfryd aims to “awaken minds” to fleeting governing laws by virtue of playing pictorial detective through challenging social norms. He creates a tangible environment in which the viewer challenges the perspectives about the qualities of culture and history.