What art can do …

Good art activates both heart & mind. Its a dualisme not always well reflected in contemporary conceptual art. We often see art drowning in its own philosophical – or; as is more & more the case today – political slogans. I do definitively understand the need for political revolt; but for the artist the uttering…

entering

As already mentioned, I’m writing a piece on art and motherhood, it’s planned to go into a series of essays, together with a (maybe several) texts on all kinds of aspects connected to the concept of home. Motherhood and home are very connected concepts in my experience of life (maybe they are the same?). (ok,…

life is a passageway

– a follow up on Do Ho Suh I am very interested in how Do Ho Suh works with space, how he investigate cultural displacement and the sense of home. Several of his projects, like the one shown in this video, are about carrying memories of intimate places from his childhood over into new places, new contexts…