THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
Slovakia – Povazska Bystrica The Slovakian photographer explores the multiple possibilities of portraiture and architecture in pictures where conceptual art and surrealism impose themselves between colour and black and white. Michal Zahornacky places his work between reality and fiction. The eclecticism of his images invites us into highly imaginative visual narratives. Originally […]
INTO THE OTHER WORLDS OF ZHONG LIN
The Malaysian photographer strikes our senses with images that are both mysterious and provocative, sensual and disturbing, opening up new dimensions. Flowers protruding from faces, bodies wrapped in fabric, prickly red lips, eyelashes as long as hair, silhouettes lost in misty water… Welcome to Zhong Lin’s strange, disturbing, and fascinating worlds. Her work reflects the […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her very aesthetic, luminous and colorful choices. “The woman is meant to be celebrated; the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, no matter what look I’m going for.” Elena Iv-skaya’s strength and energy is evident […]
NADEZDA NIKOLOVA
Elemental Forms Nadezda Nikolova (b. 1978, Serbia) is a Croatian-Bulgarian-American artist based in Oakland, California. She studied 19th-century phototrophic (light energy capturing) printing processes at the University of Kentucky and the George Eastman Museum. Having learned the old photographic techniques so prized and reused today, she produces photograms on wet collodion plates (called tintypes). Imaginary […]
THOMAS DEMAND, THE ART OF TROMPE-L’OEIL
France – Paris The first major retrospective of the German photographer and sculptor is on show at the Jeu de Paume, presenting his photographs of life-size reconstructions. Since the 1990s, Thomas Cyrill Demand has been questioning the viewer’s relationship to the image and to time. His photographs reconstitute places through significant events, media episodes, or […]
THE GATES OF POSSIBILITY, Art & Science Fiction
“Science fiction is the subversive agent of doubt […] Under the guise of anticipation, it sheds light on current societal and scientific developments and trends, holds out the hope of a world re-enchanted by the power of our imagination and makes us dream of transforming utopia into reality.”1 From Sandy Skoglund’s fluorescent green Radioactive […]
GREGORY CHATONSKY, DOUBLE GLOVE
France – Paris Having made the web the breeding ground for new narratives hybridizing the real and the virtual via artificial intelligence, Gregory Chatonsky seems to have opened the Pandora’s box of our post-modern world: delegating to the “artificial imagination” the composition of his dystopian visions, the artist seems to have sold his soul to […]
Guide : create your pop-up store in Paris
The phenomenon of pop-up stores in Paris has become extremely popular with brands from all walks of life in recent years. Whether it’s start-ups wanting to test their offer, exceptional showrooms for Paris Fashion Week or creating an original sales experience in an atypical location, a pop-up store in Paris meets many needs of companies […]
What are pop-up shops?
Pop-up shops have become very popular in recent years and are short-term retail spaces set up to promote a product, brand or service. Usually set up in high-profile, high-traffic locations or with exceptional cachet, they often appear for a few weeks, or even just a few days, before disappearing again. Their purpose? To generate interest […]