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Private Vision. Notes on Jonas Mekas and Other Things Concerning our Particular ConditionVincenzo Estremo | Sep 23, 2019
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am …
Second Time Around. Interview with Dora GarcíaAnnalisa Pellino | Jul 18, 2019
Dora García (Valladolid, 1965) is a Spanish artist whose research-based practice draws on a range of different media — performance, film, sound, literary and scientific texts — using the display as a tool to investigate …
Venice Biennale 2019 | HighlightsMatilde Soligno | May 17, 2019
A Walk Through The Art – Best of: Venice Biennale 2019 A Walk Through The Art is a format that provides our readers with photo galleries presenting a selection of highlights from …
Ravi Agarwal. Ecologies of LossVincenzo Estremo | Apr 8, 2019
Indian artist Ravi Agarwal on show at PAV Turin Nowadays, photography is a kind of visual note. It has become – within the last decades of digital and “social” (r)evolution – a written track composed …
Interview with Cally SpoonerMarco Antelmi | Mar 28, 2019
Cally Spooner is one of the most interesting figures in performance art today. Winner of the illy Present Future Prize at Artissima, Turin in 2017, she challenges object performativity while overcoming the binary definition of …
Maya Watanabe: LiminalDroste Effect | Mar 20, 2019
On show Maya Watanabe’s new video installation by Lorenza Pignatti Liminal is an intense journey that analyses the threshold of the recognizable and the representable, the visible and the abstraction. The video installation presents …
Not a Shoe. Sophie Nys at GuimarãesDroste Effect | Feb 8, 2019
A few months ago we asked art writer Josseline Black to visit Sophie Nys’ exhibition “Not a Shoe,” hosted by Guimarães art space in Vienna. The following is the text she wrote on that occasion. …
Jon Rafman: Il viaggiatore mentale, Galleria Civica di ModenaLisa Andreani | Jan 28, 2019
Jon Rafman’s solo show The Mind Traveler in Modena, Italy It does not seem so difficult to make the figure of Jon Rafman coincide with that of a cursed poet. His videos are like a chasm …
Interview with Pedro Neves MarquesMarco Antelmi | Jan 17, 2019
Pedro Neves Marques (1984) is a Portuguese artist based in New York whose practice ranges from video to the written word. Pedro Neves Marques’s works have much in common with science-fiction, but above all they …
Coast Contemporary: Rugged, weathered, above the seaDroste Effect | Jan 7, 2019
A reportage on the second edition of Coast Contemporary in Norway, written by Lorenza Pignatti Coast Contemporary, a program held on board of the MS Trollfjord, constitutes an unusual and unique way to promote …
Artissima Live – Interview with Susan PhilipszMarco Antelmi | Jan 2, 2019
Following the experience at #ArtissimaLive, Droste Effect is publishing the interviews collected during Artissima 2018 in Turin; find all articles at #ArtissimaLive. Fourth conversation: artist Susan Philipsz Susan Philipsz (Glasgow, 1965) is not a sound artist; …
From There We Came Out and Saw the Stars. Hera Büyüktaşçıyan for Underneath the ArchesEleonora Castagna | Dec 18, 2018
“The name of the work is From There We Came Out and Saw the Stars. It is the last quote from the Inferno by Dante Alighieri. We decided to translate it into English because we thought …
