Interview with: @alphabet_party Text: @luccigarcia__
When I first encountered Dana Robinson’s work online, I felt a strange sense of proximity, as if her images had already reached me before we ever spoke.
Working through fragments, cut images, gestures, and surfaces, Robinson draws from the visual language of 1970s Ebonymagazine to revisit Black American optimism as something open, unresolved, and alive. As she tells me, her process is “a very conscious decision to love over and over again” — a gesture both intimate and political. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Photography: @lit_liv_1
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Interview with @hristinazhopa2
Hristina Novykova is an artist from Mariupol who works with photography and video. She lives and works in Kyiv. In her work, she often refers to the image of the human body, exploring aspects of corporeality that are inherent in humans but unacceptable in society. In Novykova’s practice, these images exist on the edge of the disgusting and the attractive, often based on personal experiences. Girlhood, mental disorders, first love, sex, family stories - all of these are depicted in Hristina’s works with tenderness and extreme acceptance. (…) Full interview in bio
Text: @palmakaveli
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Interview with @polinatammi
Text and photography @brynley.odu.davies
I first met Polina Osipova at a show opening in London and was immediately drawn to her presence and work. Later, I visited her countryside studio to photograph her and spend the day looking through her multidisciplinary practice, from stitch to performance and beyond. That evening, I told my housemate I’d photographed Polina. “No way, she’s my favourite artist,” she said. She had studied her at university. It struck me how far Polina’s work has travelled — from the Chuvash Republic to classrooms in the UK — while staying rooted in a deeply specific cultural lineage.
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Interview with @ismuisamu
Isabel Münter, co-founder of @pawnchessclub , is quietly reshaping how people meet. What began as a small chess gathering has grown into a wider cultural world, where strangers connect somewhere between strategy and silence. Alongside Homes&Studios and the upcoming platform Galla, Münter is building new ways to experience culture beyond the screen. Raised between Copenhagen and New York, she reflects on anonymity, curiosity, and why real-life connection feels more urgent than ever. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Photo: @strongblue
Text:@palmakaveli
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The dukkan was never just a store it’s a staple of everyday life across SWANA. Small, family-owned shops tucked into neighborhoods, often open long hours, stocked with everything from daily essentials to snacks, sweets, and cold drinks. Before large supermarkets became common, it was the go-to spot for quick needs and a place where everyone knew each other.
For us, it was something more. Running there with cousins, a few coins in hand, already planning what to get before even stepping inside. Shelves filled with chips, candy, gum, and juice you’d take your time, debate your options, maybe switch last second, then walk out with a mix of everything to share.
It wasn’t just about what you bought, it was the moment itself. The walk there, the laughter, the feeling of being outside together. Simple trips, but the kind that stay with you.
Interview with @tal1u1ah
Tallulah Dirnfeld is a New York-based artist known for her emotionally charged oil paintings that blend surrealism with psychological depth. A self-taught painter with a background in horror film production, Dirnfeld creates haunting, dreamlike scenes that explore themes of memory, identity, and femininity. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Photography: @genevieveandrewss
Text: @palmakaveli
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Interview with @sophiedherbecourt
Sophie Dherbecourt’s work lives in the unstable space where identity starts to slip, split and reform. Working through a contemporary surrealist lens, the artist creates hybrid figures that feel at once tender and unsettling, as if vulnerability and self-protection are constantly reshaping each other in real time.(…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Text: @palmakaveli
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Interview with @jhonny_5
Raised in Toronto and now based in Berlin, photographer and videographer Johnny Nghiem moves through portraiture and personal image-making with a deep sensitivity to memory, identity, and connection. Shaped by the immigrant experience, community, and the feeling of growing up between cultures, his work often explores both intimacy and quiet isolation. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Text: @palmakaveli
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Interview with @emily_coan
Emily Coan (b. 1991 St. Petersburg, Florida) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley, NY. In 2013, she received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Florida, and moved to New York City as a painter in 2015. Her multilayered, glazed oil paintings grapple with the often-maligned themes of femininity and feminine power, set in fairytale-esque environments. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Photo: Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra
Text: @palmakaveli
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Interview with @lulu_wangyx
Text and photography by @brynley.odu.davies
The first time I met Lulu Wang, I didn’t know what to expect. Invited to the ICA by my friend and artist Hongxi Li, I ended up photographing the performance that same night. From the start, Lulu had a warm, magnetic energy. When she stepped into Hourglass, the whole room changed. Through sand, gesture, silence, and movement, she held the space completely. We met again the next day to shoot at the ICA — no rigid structure, just instinct, rhythm, and response. What I stepped into wasn’t just a performance. It was a world already in motion. Full interview in bio
Press shoot looks are by
SELASI selasi
Issey Miyake @isseymiyakeofficial
EMILY FRANCES BARRETT @emilyfrancesbarrett shot at the @icalondon
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Interview with @annachoutova1
Anna Choutova doesn’t talk about addiction in the language of spectacle. In her world, it feels more like “a quiet hum”: something that moves through habit, repetition, camouflage, and the small rituals that make life feel manageable. That sensibility runs through Kitchen Party, her new show at @miloscgallery in London, where the kitchen becomes a space of aftermath, intimacy, boredom, concealment, and conversation. Long associated with @badartpresents , Choutova is more interested in “stagnation rather than spectacle,” and in the objects and habits that quietly take over a life. I spoke to her about Kitchen Party, quiet addiction, domestic space, and what remains once the party is over. (…) Full interview in bio 🔗
Photography: @brynley.odu.davies
Text: @palmakaveli
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