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Fabrizio Mifsud Soler sits down with Ritty Tacsum, whose latest exhibition, Disclosure, marks her first solo show in five years. Known for blending elements of faith, vulnerability, and raw human experience, Tacsum delves into the layers of her creative process, the influence of her Roman Catholic upbringing, and the intriguing confessions that have shaped her newest body of work.
Duality of Ecstasy
The Duality of Ecstasy captures the complexity of human emotion through mime and rhyme. The new short film from Maltese director Keith Albert Tedesco explores the extremes that elevate us and estrange us into ecstasy through a series of vignettes interwoven with French narrative.
The veiled world of curios collecting
I used to collect everything. If I found myself with two objects of the same nature, I would find myself wanting more of them. Ten or so years back I started cutting out the general collecting and focused more so on curiosities. I’ve always loved the layers of curios shelves, skulls, bottles, objects of nature naturally formed into beautiful objects. It’s also nice to have objects that have a story behind them.
Janus Head
We asked four people that each have a history with drug abuse to share their experience while in a rehab journey. We took the best and worst bits from these altered real-life experiences and put them through an AI image generator. A pair of images are generated for each subject depicting the ecstasy and aftermath from their recollections. How accurately does AI capture the sentiment that words are trying to convey?
The Ecstasy Issue
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Ritty Tacsum,
beauty in the unconventional
Tatiana Wolska: Leisure As Resistance
In her latest solo exhibition, Wolska has turned these potentially polluting materials into a series of captivating artworks. Taking place at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, Wolska’s first UK solo exhibition, Leisure As Resistance, showcases sculptures, drawings, an enormous mural and a makeshift hut.
ECSTASY IN THE EYE OF THE ARTIST
As opposed to the oppressive obligation of being, “ex-stasis” is being outside oneself and the world. An emotion, a feeling, that, like all things relegated to the irrational universe, cannot be explained to those who do not experience it. Yet there is perhaps a hope for an insight, for an identification, a moment of common resonance, which is to stand before a work of art and be overwhelmed by emotional sharing.
Charmed by Clay: An Artist’s Take On Ceramic Brussels
Artist Rebeka Rácz visited the first edition of the Ceramic Brussels contemporary ceramics fair and took some honest notes.
Open Call for Photo Submission – Becoming Poison
Impeached is thrilled to announce an open call for artists working in the photographic medium to contribute to an upcoming photo book titled “Becoming Poison: A Lens On The Toxic World of Plastic. This project is dedicated to exploring and exposing the profound effects of plastic in its various forms.
Huma Bhabha: Ambiguous Otherness
With her first monographic exhibition in a French institution, Huma Bhabha seamlessly weaves together diverse eras, materials, and iconic forms to create thought-provoking works that explore anthropomorphic and hybrid presences.
Small Amnesias – Kunsthalle Neuwerk
Explore ‘Small Amnesias’ at Kunsthalle Neuwerk, an evocative exhibition by Maltese artist Vince Briffa. Immerse in a unique blend of video art and soundscapes that echo Malta’s rich heritage, expertly curated by Nina Maier. A sensory journey of memory, identity, and place
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Reviving Vernacular Heritage: A Contemporary Take On Traditional Dwellings
Challenging traditional design norms, RAPA Architects have designed a unique architectural project located in Tihany, Hungary. The concept revolves around the design of a contemporary vacation home with a thatched roof and a traditional longhouse contour.
House & Garden
Charleston Lewes is currently hosting Through the Joy of the Senses an exhibition by contemporary artist Jonathan Baldock. The solo show explores Baldock’s fascination with sculptural form, craft traditions, and folklore. The selection resonates with Lewes’s historical and cultural context, weaving a narrative inspired by the town’s rich folklore, myths, and legends.
Reevaluating Western Perspectivism
Dev Dhunsi, a Norwegian-Indian multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in Stockholm is currently presenting his inaugural solo exhibition at MELK, Oslo. “Encircling Stories” features images captured during Dhunsi’s seven-year exploration, spanning from Punjab to Goa, traversing diverse regions of India by train. The exhibition reveals evolving relationships with land, highlighting the complexities of a region undergoing agricultural challenges, monoculture threats, and dispossession.
Visions of Futurology
The fourteenth edition of the festival of contemporary photography OFF Bratislava, is titled “The House of Plausible, Probable, Possible and Preferable Futures”. It explores visions of the third millennium and explores the idea that art has held the power to foretell the future since time immemorial.
Fabrizio Ajello and Nikhil Chopra – A dialogue
Time does not exist. Space does not exist. It’s as if it’s all in our minds. Nothing more than a projection to believe in for reassurance of certain points. The stakes of the giant, delicate tent of our existence. A precarious shelter to adorn with care, so that we can narrate our passage in this life. Traces in the landscape, signs of the landscape within us. The signs, perhaps, not only represent, but they also have the function as nails capable of fixing an unstable perception, a skirmish of vision. The fervent search for lost time confirms the fragility of our steps, our exclusive alignment with an hypothetical identity.
In April 2019, the stars aligned as Saci and Alex’s paths converged in El Paredón. Saci was exploring uncharted territories, while Alex, with a history tied to the local NGO La Choza Chula, was immersed in the community. As fate would have it, their story encountered a twist with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Marooned in rural Hungary’s Zalaszántó, Saci’s hometown, the Casa Zala concept was conceived.
The Art of Surviving
Benoît Piéron’s life is a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation. Born with meningitis and treated for leukaemia as a child, he was one of 4,689 in France infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood during the 1970s and 1980s. Although he didn’t become seropositive, his life became a political statement.
Trudy explores,
birth of a plant mum
during the pandemic
Dix is Present
For the first time, Otto Dix’s oeuvre from the Nazi era is being examined in the context of a comprehensive exhibition. Deichtorhallen Hamburg reveals the shifting cultural and social parameters in the reception of Dix’s oeuvre, while at the same time showing how his work continues to hold great fascination with contemporary artists.
Exploring Alternative Creative Publishing Houses
In the vast and ever-evolving world of publishing, where mammoth corporate giants often take center stage, there’s a quiet revolution taking place. Super-small, independent publishing houses are challenging the norms of the industry and breathing fresh air into the literary and creative spheres. These niche publishers are unafraid to take risks, focusing on the unconventional, the daring, and the truly unique. Here, we delve into the world of alternative creative publishing houses that are making a big impact, despite their size.
Shifts In Time
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 is an exhibition that focuses on the vibrant and complex world of South Korean art since the late 1980s. During this period, South Korea underwent significant political and societal changes, transitioning from a military dictatorship to a legitimate democracy and opening itself to international engagement.
Killain Van de Water
& his illustrations
Untrue Unreal: Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Strozzi
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is currently exhibiting a selection of Anish Kapoor’s early, mid-career, and recent works presenting a comprehensive view of his artistic evolution and exploring the interaction of his contemporary sculpture with the Renaissance architecture of the historic venue.
No se me quita lo naco: Gabriel Chaile at Meridiano
Reaching through and beyond a rectangular atrium forever open to the sun and stars, a single monumental work activates both inner and outer structures – No se me quita lo naco, is a new site-specific installation at Puerto Escondido’s Meridiano that develops on Gabriel Chaile’s recent sculptural presentations at the Venice Biennale, the New Museum Triennial, and Studio Voltaire.
Without The Shadow Of A Doubt: Thao Nguyen Phan at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Until January 14th, 2024 Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan is hosting Reincarnations of Shadows – an art exhibition featuring the work of Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan. This exhibition marks Phan’s first solo show in Italy and showcases her unique artistic practice exploring amongst others the theme and concept of reincarnation.
In The Arms of St Agnes: Zsófia Keresztes at König Galerie
For In Ethylene Arms, Zsófia Keresztes transforms the former nave of the church of St. Agnes in Berlin into a garden of earthly delights and suffering. Somehow here, it is both spring and autumn – apples bloom and rot, pain and joy are one and the same.
In her place
Munich’s Haus der Kunst is currently presenting a landmark exhibition as part of its ongoing re-examination of overlooked histories. Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976 reconstructs legendary works including Judy Chicago’s Feather Room and Aleksandra Kasuba’s Spectral Passage.
In April 2019, the stars aligned as Saci and Alex’s paths converged in El Paredón. Saci was exploring uncharted territories, while Alex, with a history tied to the local NGO La Choza Chula, was immersed in the community. As fate would have it, their story encountered a twist with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Marooned in rural Hungary’s Zalaszántó, Saci’s hometown, the Casa Zala concept was conceived.
Epiphany: Jason Craighead
Jason Craighead is an artist from Raleigh, North Carolina. He uses his soul as a tool to create deeply expressive abstract paintings, building a strong relationship with the observer. We met in his studio in Brooklyn to talk about his practice and creative techniques, which the artist employs in order to reveal his profound nature.
From the our last issue
The Birth of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Inevitably, the highly developed persona was not her true authentic self, but rather her idea of perfection, which did not match what she felt on the inside. This created great incongruence inside of her; she was projecting one thing to the outside world, but feeling completely different on the inside.
The Birth of internet fatigue
First things first; let’s not be total grumpy cats and appreciate that this is pretty much fucking magic. I can be anywhere and whizz a photo of the cupcake I’m about to devour to anyone I please for 0.2 seconds of my time, all while making plans for tomorrow with 20 people in one chat. In real time. With GIFs. Fucking magic!
Fake news
Our brain is an association machine, constantly looking for patterns and meaning to make sense of the world. And one of the mental strategies we rely on when passing judgement is to look at our existing library of knowledge. When this knowledge is not there, our brain might consider the source’s credibility to decide whether or not the story should be believed.
Thoughts after Pastis
Upon touching my lips, I knew something special was happening. I wasn’t recovering from this. This was no crush. No puppy love. This was a full-blown, long-term commitment. Lustful and loving all at the same time.
Peaches And Punanis: Why It Was Never Just About Bananas and Babies
But sexual pleasure doesn’t just happen with a partner. Fondling and vibrators shouldn’t be a novelty for not just single women, but to all women in whatever relationship. How can we expect pleasure from other partners if we are unaware as to what stimulates our bodies? Well, pull that sleeve up, and sing the song to that 50s poster – Yes You Can know your body better with every passing day.
The birth of cleaner air travel
Flying to discover, promote and raise money for sustainable aviation initiatives around the globe. This is the journey that Swiss pilots, environmentalists and best friends Robin Wenger and Matthias Niederhäuser embarked on together when they setup the non-profit initiative Diamondo Earthrounding.
Impeached faves
Structure, but not too much
Our brain has two modes, a very structured mode, and a very chaotic mode. A lot of people think that chaos makes them creative but this is not actually true. The sweet spot is somewhere between the structured and the chaotic, which he calls “structured chaos.”
Meeting my Colleagues Face to Face for the First Time
Meeting my colleagues in person for the first time ever It’s 12.17am. I just got home from the airport after my late night flight back to Malta from Sardinia. The week-long sun abuse, the flight back and the Mcdonalds I ate before leaving have me pretty beat,...
Zodiac – BS or Science?
According to the American Federation of Astrologers, 70 million Americans read their horoscope daily and the numbers are growing
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