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Lines of Trauma: Mapping Partition Through the Body and the Border

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In 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister who had never visited India before, was commissioned to delineate a line bifurcating British India. He was handed outdated maps and obsolete census data to divide the country primarily based on religious demographics. A few weeks later, on August 17th, the Radcliffe Line was announced, formalising the […]

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Art After Exile: Reading Zhanna Kadyrova’s Stone War Bread, ‘Palianytsia’

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Kadyrova Zhanna

We are currently in the midst of many wars. While the Russia-Ukrainian war that started on February 24, 2022, is ongoing, America and Israel together attacked Iran, while Israel’s attacks on Palestinians continue. The response given by writer Arundhati Roy to the question of how to look at the war is noteworthy: “Once weapons were

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Exploration of Evocative Silence in Art: In Conversation with Lorraine THIRIA

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Bodies of Time: Lorraine THIRIA on Surfaces, Memory and the Imaginary

PART 2 of Interview with Lorraine THIRIA. Read the first part Here: Bodies of Time: Lorraine THIRIA on Surfaces, Memory and the Imaginary Q: Your work is deeply sensory, but it also feels intimate. What emotional need does this practice fulfill for you? Lorraine THIRIA: My work is indeed deeply sensory and intimate. These impressions

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Bodies of Time: Lorraine THIRIA on Surfaces, Memory and the Imaginary

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Lorraine Thiria

Lorraine THIRIA is a contemporary french artist, whose practice moves fluidly between painting, photography, writing, and material research. Her Art is anchored in a singular visual world shaped by walls, matter, memory, and time. Trained in mural art and visual arts, and having arrived at photography through painting, she treats surfaces as living skins that

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Melvin Edwards: New Political Vocabulary of ‘Lynch Fragments’

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Melvin Edwards

Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), who died last week at 88, was a Houston-born sculptor and activist who was raised during segregation and portrayed Afro-American lives in abstract terms. He first studied painting at the University of Southern California before turning to welding in 1959. Building on this distinctive artistic foundation, Edwards crafted intricate, abstract assemblages from

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Maryam Saeedpoor: Witness from Within

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Woman Life Freedom

Maryam Saeedpoor is a Tehran-based Iranian photographer whose theatrically staged portrait work has made her one of the most significant visual voices documenting the lives, resistance, and interior worlds of Iranian women. Born in Tehran in 1984, she operates at the intersection of art photography, photojournalism, and quiet defiance, creating images that are simultaneously intimate

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Art of Ugur Gallenkuş: Fragments of War and Collage as Witness

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Ugur-Gallenkus

The art of Turkish collage artist Ugur Gallenkuş proves that wartime is not only about war but also about thoughts and movement against it. As attacks against Iran have begun following the Russian-Ukrainian war and Israel’s ongoing aggressions in Palestine, anti-war art creations are also gaining attention on social media. Ugur Gallenkuş’s works are a

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Malak Mattar: A Homeland Painted in Memory, Art After the Bombing

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Malak Mattar

War shapes people’s socio-political life and, thus, their artistic expressions, and it changes like any other experience. Palestinian artists Malak Mattar, whose lives and experiences with prolonged conflict have been personally affected, depict war as a mirrored experience with details. The experience of war, like other experiences, leaves its imprint, and following it, one can

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