"The urgency to be seen is all the more great that tomorrow everything will be gone". This sentence, like a mantra uttered by Christo, seems to resonate more than anything today as his works are showed in two French museums. Made famous for their wrapped[...]
With Ad Infinitum, photographer Kris Vervaeke creates a serie of images by exploring the cemeteries of Hong Kong. The mortuary portraits of women and men, left in the outdoor, become, for the photographer, still alive representations of the deceased. Why and how did you get[...]
Like ghost files replacing a volume taken from the shelves of a library, Sophie Calle revives the borrowed pieces of museums leaving empty spaces behind. Invited in 1989 to the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, the artist discovered the void that the work Nu[...]
Articles’ illustrations, novel covers or personal experimentations, the illustrator Owen Gent, based in Bristol in the United Kingdom, creates images with dense storytelling. For his editorial projects commissioned by magazines, such as The New York Times, he illustrates the reality of sudden death experiences. For[...]
All it takes for Alexander Gehring's images to topple over into the occult world is a dark room, its red light, and extensive historical research. The German photographer who lives and works in Berlin, revalorizes analog photography. But above all, it renews the history of[...]
Visually, Rainer Kohlberger's films and installations can be understood as pure light generated by algorithms. Fascinated by noise from a very young age, it is not surprising that the Australian digital artist and designer is now creating work that mixes the influence of drone music,[...]
On the pages of a notebook, Amélie Vidgrain expresses, through blue monotypes, her relationship to life with which the supernatural sometimes mixes. Trained at the Oliver de Serres school (ENSAAM Paris) and the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pieknych), this artist develops a[...]
Recently graduated in art from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, Ludovic Hadjeras has been part of the No Name group since 2017, a workshop within the HEAR that develops thematic and collective exhibitions in art centers of the Grand Est region. During the[...]
Ann Veronica Janssens was born in 1956 in Folkestone (England), she lives and works in Brussels (Belgium). Exploring elements such as light, sound or fog that she artificially reproduces, the artist Ann Veronica Janssens tries in her installations and devices to exacerbete the sensations and perceptions of[...]
There are many ways to talk about the disappearance of a loved one and the journey that took place following this. If the deceased still lives in the livings, sometimes he even haunts them, those who remain fail to fully accept the passage into the[...]
The editorial object of art and design, Rott Magazine, inaugurates its first issue by examining the theme of death. Throughout these pages, designed by Trash Studio, Rott Magazine illustrates in images and in paintings, the theories of the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In 2019, you launched[...]
Ukrainian photographer Elena Subach illustrates, in her series Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven, the notion of “grandmothering”. Through this anthropological concept which reveals the importance of matriarchs in the evolution of the human species (whose menopause would be physiological proof of their gargantuan achievements),[...]
Settled in Northen France for more than 20 years, Bruno Duplant, artist, musician and composer, captures disused industrial areas, « ghost factories », through his camera. The images he takes echo preliminary sound works about the same theme. These compositions, which have evolved over time,[...]