Join our founder in Geneva for ✨From Soil to Spirits : Small Rituals of Coming Together✨
Dreams and speculative visions are acts of reclamation, we reassert our agency and refuse the limitations imposed upon us. In a world where oppressive systems act to control identities, land, and bodies, imagining otherwise is itself resistance.
Where extractive economies benefits from burnout, anxiety, imposter syndrome and isolation, small rituals of coming together,
friendships,
communal acts,
shared meals,
moments of rest,
collective imagination,
become acts of defiance and healing.
We reclaim space for diverse ways of being, loving, and relating: not just as an act of survival, but as a way to create worlds beyond the structures that seek to contain us.
With special thanks to our hosts
@sheelasha_rajbhandari@hitmaangurung@embassy.of.foreign.artists
We are happy to participate in Art 4 Tibet’s 10 Year Anniversary Auction taking place at NowHere Gallery on November 3rd in New York City!
Art for Tibet will showcase more than 50 artworks from a diverse international pool of established and emerging artists including: Ai Weiwei, Shepard Fairey, Pema Rinzin, & more!
Read our latest newsletter to hear more about exciting upcoming projects and opportunities! 💥 Link in bio.
Read our latest newsletter to hear about exciting upcoming projects and opportunities! 💥 Link in bio.
As ever, we are focused on expanding Art Represent's vision and mission to include new approaches to supporting and empowering our artists.
As we continue to grow our Creative Impact Programme (CIP), our goal is to develop initiatives and collaborations which connect our artists to education, the sciences & technology sectors. In the midst of global turbulence and uncertainty, it’s more important than ever for us to work collaboratively towards common goals & values that can shape more compassionate and resilient global communities.
Poignant and powerful coverage of our artist Maira Kulikovska in The New York Times.
The Naked Sentry...
One other work remains in the Fine Arts Museum, Maria Kulikovska’s “Venus,” a naked woman modeled on the artist’s own body and cast in 2019 from ballistic soap with infused flowers. It was too delicate to move.
Ballistic soap is used by the arms industry to test the damage projectiles will inflict on a body, how big the hole is at the entry point and what direction sundering will take. “It has a similar consistency to the human body,” Ms. Kulikovska told me.
The extraordinary statue stands alone now in the museum’s central baroque room, under a chandelier, beneath the decorative cherubs. It seems intensely human and vulnerable, everything Catherine the Great in her portrait is not.
/2022/08/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-putin-russia.html
Watch our latest Artist Interview Series with @noor.bahjat . Link in Bio.
Bahjat is a surrealist self-portrait artist working in a painterly expressionistic style with a primarily figurative subject matter. Creating deeply atmospheric canvases with her reoccurring female protagonist, Bahjat is able to address the intricacies of life. Upon visiting the Philippines in 2016 Bahjat’s palette and visual narrative drastically changed, moving (away from dark and static compositions) toward illuminated backgrounds incorporating elements of nature and water within her portraits. Allowing her subconscious to take control Bahjat depicts densely filled imaginative narratives in still-life settings that yearn for a more simple life.
#noorbahjat #syrianart
Watch our latest Artist Interview Series with @noor.bahjat . Link in Bio.
Born in Damascus, Syria in 1991, Noor Bahjat now lives and works in the United Arab Emirates. Bahjat studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Damascus from which she graduated with honours. Although struggling with perspective throughout her entire degree, Bahjat was able to transform this weakness into her iconic still-life style. Her work is housed in public and private collections throughout the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
#noorbahjat #syrianartist
Watch our latest Artist Interview Series with @noor.bahjat . Link in Bio.
Skillfully transitioning between warm and cool palettes Noor Bahjat creates deeply atmospheric canvases infused with reoccurring, symbolic objects exploring the human form with attention to mundane moments in life. The Portrayed figures are expressionless variations of herself, her thoughts, and observation of others.
#noorbahjat #syrianart
ARTIST INTERVIEW SERIES - Alejandro & Hugo Viana
Full Interview with Hugo Viana and Alejandro Viana
👇🏼🤌🏽
/blog/alejandro-amp-hugo-viana
#colombianartist#columbiaart#plasticart#visualart#probetheboundaries#artistinterview#serie#artrepresent#deservetobefound
ARTIST INTERVIEW SERIES - Alejandro & Hugo Viana
Full Interview with Hugo Viana and Alejandro Viana
👇🏼🤌🏽
/blog/alejandro-amp-hugo-viana
#colombianartist#columbiaart#plasticart#visualart#probetheboundaries#artistinterview#serie#artrepresent#deservetobefound
