Source Colossal   In the statement for Annalise Gratovich’s solo exhibition, Carrying Things From Home, the gallery poses a couple of questions: “When war, displacement, and migration sever familial and cultural ties, how do we sustain a sense of self and ancestral connection? How do we hybridize in a new homeland?” For the artist, who is…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Ekaterina Vygolova uses fibers and mixed media to create incredible contemporary sculptural work. The post Featured Artist Ekaterina Vygolova appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   “The question that has always stayed with me is the one the market rarely asks: what happened in the studio before the work arrived? The sketches abandoned, the ideas reconsidered, the moment something became itself?” That is Shlomi Rabi, founder of Bridgewell Arts and a former auction-house specialist, describing what he is now…

Source Design You Trust  Photon Tide feels like someone making art out of inner weather. The work is psychedelic, emotional, and a little cosmic, like it’s pulling images straight out of a dream and giving them shape. What hits first is the mood. There’s loneliness, motion, and a kind of beautiful unease running through the…

Source Design You Trust  Wenqing Yan, known as Yuumei, makes art that feels like it has something to say. The work is full of fantasy, environmental themes, and emotional tension, but it never loses its sense of wonder. What stays with me most is how the images feel both beautiful and pointed. There’s a real…

Source Design You Trust  Elizabeth Hurley’s teenage years were very different from her later red-carpet image. In the early 1980s, she embraced punk and goth style in Hampshire, Brighton, and London, bleaching her hair, wearing a nose ring, and even singing in a local punk band called the Vested Virgins. She later said the look…

Source Colossal   In the ever-expanding pantheon of open-world video games where combat, survival, crafting, and anarchy reign, the simple idea of taking a virtual walk while chatting with a few friends might seem pointless. A new video game from Melbourne-based developer House House begs to differ, though, turning a casual stroll across dreamy landscapes into…

Source Colossal   The Colombian artist Delcy Morelos describes her hometown of Tierralta as “a paradise full of butterflies and unpaved streets.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Morelos spent her days in her grandmother’s garden, running barefoot and gleaning what it meant to live in connection with the land. When paramilitary and guerrilla troops…