Sara Shamma’s UK show hits out at modern slavery with striking colours
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Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer
Modern Slavery, an exhibition of paintings by London-based Syrian artist Sara Shamma, will be shown at Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton, UK in August and September 2021. It is the result of Shamma’s 2019 research-focussed residency at King’s College London, where she was based within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), working closely with Dr Siân Oram and in partnership with the Helen Bamber Foundation. Dr Oram is Senior Lecturer in Women’s Mental Health at the IoPPN. As part of her residency, Shamma conducted interviews with women who have lived experience of modern slavery, as well as with academics and experts in the field. The resulting figurative work considers the meaning of survival, endurance and recovery from the survivors’ perspectives.
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[INTERVIEW] Media artist s own DNA breathes new life into digital landscape paintings
Posted : 2021-07-14 09:09
By Park Han-sol
What exactly did media artist Lee Lee-nam need in order to give life to a 6.8-meter-high digital waterfall roaring down a wall of the Savina Museum? A high-functioning computer, projector and two strands of his own hair.
In his piece, Waterfall Turned into a Poem, what looks like a shower of water droplets is, upon closer inspection, revealed to be a stream of the letters of the alphabet, A, T, C and G. The tiny, white letters raining down in fact represent the four chemical bases that make up human DNA molecules: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). But they are not just from any human. They derive directly from the artist s own genetic code, extracted from his strands of hair at the G+FLAS Life Sciences biotech lab at Seoul National University.
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Germany s auctions saw more and more works going over the €1 million mark and international auction houses like Sotheby s have noticed.
July 12, 2021
An employee of Grisebach auction house hangs giant photos by photographer Frank Thiel of the Allied soldiers who once patrolled Berlin that have been displayed at Checkpoint Charlie ar up for auction in Berlin on November 20, 2019. Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images.
Sebastian Neußer, a director at Ketterer Kunst, was reclining in a chair in the company’s Munich salesroom with a phone pressed to his ear. He was bidding on behalf of a client for an abstract oil on canvas by German modernist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.