Projects

Environment is the smoke humanity has laid on Nature: the people who used Latin had no word for Environment – they only knew natura.

Art, for me, constitutes the language through which I discover the state of the human being and the contradictions he/she lives through in the shadow of the cultural conflicts between civilisations, and relating these to symbolic elements and concepts amongst these civilisations.

"10 Commandments for the 21st Century" is a 10-point list of simple rules of behaviour.

It is a savage world, Ahmed is aware of this.

Brood was originally conceived by the artists as an army – ornithological stand-ins for a band of warfaring men.

Claudia Losi’s work, moving between an emotional approach and a more conceptual one, shows her strong interest in historical change and the complexity of natural phenomena, with attention to scientific and literary disciplines.

In an Irregular Configuration. Rapid changes: complex, turbulent, unpredictable.

What you see and what you hear often differ a lot.

The Bargau Valley in Northeastern Transylvania provides the setting for much of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897).

They were different tribes. They did have one thing in common, I heard from his story.

In 2004, while still a student at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, Leopold Kessler installed a 1,200m long electric cable from his studio at the academy to his private apartment – for programmatic reasons and without seeking permission beforehand (Akademiekabel, 2004).

I try, always try, to create a space where I can probe my identities vis-á-vis the world around me.

An artist’s imagination, creativity, and transversely off- centre position leave behind a circumstantial trace that is linked to the artist’s own individual sphere of influence.

If you want a sense of how utterly alive Africa is today, culturally and politically, listen to its popular music.

My son and I would ride our bicycles to this mountainous area in Khor Fakkan and there we made these six different- sized circles.