Through light leaks, natural dyes and ancestral Andean knowledge, the artist’s Alquimia Textil becomes a meditation on chance, craft and the quiet resistance embedded in traditional textile practices
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GIRLS: On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between gathers decades of images, memories, from Jim Britt’s iconic Sisters to contemporary reflections on the rituals of growing up
Iraqi Female Photographers is a collective addressing systemic sexism, a lack of women’s stories and institutional support in the country
The Saudi Arabian artist displays performance work alongside Iranian Shirin Neshat in Cartographies of Presence in London
Cutting up the canon of photographic images gave Justine Kurland an interest in collage that has blossomed into The Rose, a celebrated exhibition on show and in print this summer
‘Om (Mother) opens for exhibition at FOMU, alongside a book by The Eriksay Connection – Barbara Debeuckelaere tells BJP about the body of work
Making Way: Lesbians Out Front is reissued by Anthology Editions to honour the fight for lesbian rights through 108 photographs of history
Tamara Abdul Hadi visited the marshes of southern Iraq to reimagine a European photo book about the region made years prior
Vivek Vadoliya collaborates with Speaker’s Corner, bringing new work championing the cultural collective
Discovered objects and images play a vital role in the work of Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based artist Sara Cwynar. Her practice blends collage, still life and portraits in photographic and filmic forms, incorporating material sourced on eBay, or at flea markets and the like. So when the opportunity arose to hold an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art last autumn, followed by a show at Milwaukee Art Museum this spring, it seemed a serendipitous moment to unearth works incorporating items from an archive close by.
“Some of the pictures that I’ve used as source material over the years came from an eBay seller who bought the archive of an old photo studio in Milwaukee,” she explains. “I think it was operational from the 1950s to the 1970s or so, and it closed down a long time ago. I like that they tie in to the location; I have repurposed some of the negatives from that for this show.”