Eruption
by Olia Koval

This project can be seen this year at Circulation(s), which takes place from March 21 to May 17 in Paris, France. The full program is available here. 40,000 hand-crafted red-winged bugs (also known as firebugs, gendarmes or soldier bugs) invade a living room — a metaphor for the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories. The room, once […]

Poison Data, Kill Algorithms
Marcel Top

This project can be seen this year at Circulation(s), which takes place from March 21 to May 17 in Paris, France. The full program is available here. Poison Data, Kill Algorithms examines common patterns behind advancements in surveillance technologies, exploring data poisoning as a form of resistance against automated surveillance, unethical data outsourcing, and harvesting. By […]

Sicily not Alaska
by Salvatore Di Gregorio

Sicily Not Alaska is a photographic project that questions the boundaries between reality and imagination, history and fiction, exploring how the transformation of a place can, over time, become its reality. Set in a real Sicily, the project imagines what the island would look like if, instead of Alaska, it had become the 49th state of […]

Shallow Waters, Misty Waves
by Sari Soininen

“Shallow Waters, Misty Waves is a journey into what we no longer stop to see. Everyday details—foliage, power lines, streets, animals—transform into dreamlike visions when the gaze lingers a little longer. Nothing is entirely new, yet nothing looks familiar anymore. ​ In the past, sacredness lived in nature. In pagan beliefs, forests, lakes, and stones were […]

Wild Rose
by Gabrielle Duplantier

At the heart of the book Wild Rose lies the house where Gabrielle Duplantier grew up.An old, immense, isolated house, surrounded by forest.On the day of her birth, a fire broke out in part of the house, forcing the unpleasant caretakers to leave. Her mother saw this as a good omen, which she attributed to […]

Somos Animales Poéticos
by Cristina Velásquez

“Who I am: an incomplete archive, full of gaps, reconstructions, and possibilities, continuously rewritten. My subjectivity is a weaving of what I remember, what I have forgotten, what has been imposed on me, and what I choose to be. The definition of who I am moves freely and reconfigures itself at every moment; it is […]

I am (not) your mother
by Hady Barry

“At 13, I became responsible for the care of my three younger siblings, the youngest of whom was only seven. We had fled the civil war in Côte d’Ivoire and arrived in Senegal in November 2002. Shortly after, my mother left for the U.S. to seek asylum for herself and for us. We would not […]

Becoming
by Dónal Talbot

This project can be seen this year at Circulation(s), which takes place from March 21 to May 17 in Paris, France. The full program is available here. “Becoming is the artist’s world experienced with openness and receptiveness – a world understood beyond preconditioning and oppression. Exploring themes of identity, perception, and transformation this project reflects on how […]

Radiations of War
Yana Kononova

“War does not end when the noise of explosions fades. It lingers, saturating the land, embedding itself in the silence of devastated landscapes. Radiations of War traces this persistence—not as a documentary record, but as an encounter with a terrain where disaster does not conclude with impact but continues to unfold, turning the land into […]

Frida Forever
by Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø

In 2012, Frida leaned against a railing on a bridge, which broke, causing her to fall 4.5 meters onto asphalt, breaking her back. Since then, she has been paraplegic and reliant on a wheelchair. In 2018, doctors discovered she also has a cellular abnormality that causes the formation of large, dead calcium deposits. As a […]