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General Idea | Serious Humor

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“In Canada we were seen as not being really serious. Also, people would tell us that you can’t be a group and be an artist, artists don’t work in groups.…

Ching Ho Cheng | The Subtlety of Expression

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“I want to capture something of the miraculous. Light is the most awesome symbol of the Order of the Universe. Nothing can beat the speed of light. When I paint…

Christopher K. Ho l Thinking about institutions building institutions as tools as instruments for change through institutions

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“It has this idea of a work also being half. Half out, half on the margins, but halfway in. And, actually, that kind of mediating position of curating is one…

Duane Michals | Telling the nature of the person in his “prose portraits”

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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic…

Mickalene Thomas | Her paintings reinterpret canonized images of beauty, diversifying the representations of black female bodies in art and history

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“I’m hoping someone standing in front of my work might get the same feeling I got when I stood in front of the work of Carrie Mae Weems, having a…

Kang Seung Lee | Retelling marginalized narrative of queer figures and LGBTQ communities in art history by graphite drawings

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“They may seem to have disappeared from history, but their lives, in fact, have influenced ours enormously and remain important today.”— Kang Seung Lee Kang Seung Lee| Image courtesy of…

WangShui | Giving identity a transformative power

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“Once you start immersing yourself in the feedback loop, you become a very accountable agent in that process and to me, that’s the direction our species has to go in…

Ly Tran Quynh Giang | Her expressionist wood cut panels depicts the existential conditions shared by human and natural world

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“For me, art is as natural as body, which means it includes both each emotion and movement that mix and inseparable. It is like the air and food we have…

Khairullah Rahim | Weaving fact, narratives and fictions together with his cheerful, effervescent style of painting and sculpture

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“We need to move past ideas that white symbolises purity, red symbolises romance, and black symbolises evil… Of course colours have had symbolic meanings over the years, but we need…

Chitra Ganesh | Filling the gaps in official history, rising the untold stories to the surface by mythological comic

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“I’m incorporating certain gestures, certain kinds of bodies, citations from queer politics and art, figures from the past and present, and bringing that into a shared frame, a roadmap for…