Authors

Throughout his career, which started in 1967, Giovanni Anselmo has explored key polarities such as finite and infinite, macrocosm and microcosm, general and particular. His investigations entail combinations of heterogeneous materials, systematically interweaving both the organic and the inorganic. Widely…

Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican writer based in London. She is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, set in London’s National Gallery, and Sea Monsters, which was awarded the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Chloe has written for…

Will Ashon is the author of two recent works of non-fiction, Strange Labyrinth, about Epping Forest, and Chamber Music, which focuses on the first album by New York rap group the Wu-Tang Clan (both published by Granta Books in the UK). He previously founded and…

Ruth van Beek’s work originates in her ever-growing archive. The images are her tools, source material and context. By folding, cutting or even adding pieces of painted paper she manipulates the images and intervenes in their universe. Her work has…

Elisabetta Benassi draws upon a plethora of different media to examine contemporary notions of modernity. Historical and personal archives often form the foundations of her practice and Benassi frequently employs them to investigate the representation of facts. Her work has…

Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut short-story collection, Pond (Fitzcarraldo UK, Bompiani IT), earned the author international critical acclaim. Her work has been reviewed in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Vogue, and The New York Times. Her short fiction and essays have been published in…

Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His books include Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006) and Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (2014). He has been Chair of Columbia University’s Philosophy Department and was…

The interrelation between image and text is at the core of Victor Burgin’s practice. His interest in the dominant role of photography emphasises the image as a political event rather than a passive object. Burgin’s work is in many major…

Jimmie Durham is known for combinations of natural and artificial material which often reverse technology’s dominance over nature. Working against Western rationalism, his production is often laced with a dry, highly critical, yet insightful, humour. He is a writer, activist…

Ubah Cristina Ali Farah è una scrittrice e poetessa somalo-italiana, autrice di due libri, Madre piccola (Frassinelli, 2007) e Il comandante del fiume (66thand2nd, 2014), oltre che di numerosi racconti e poesie. Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in Inglese…

Golnaz Fathi investigates ever more abstract forms of representation, using modern media to aid these explorations, while still basing her work on fundamental calligraphic practices and techniques. Golnaz Fathi’s works are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of…

Dora Garcia‘s practice often draws on interactivity, participation and performance. Her work, conceptual in nature, consists of text, photographs, and installations restricted to a specific location. Since 1999 García has created several artworks on the web. She has participated in…

Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann approach art as a social and communicative event informed by its audience. The discursive nature of their works and experimental critiques of behavioral norms often intersect with sociology, actively including the viewers as artistic agents.…

Since the early 1970’s Gary Hill has worked with a broad range of media including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance. His work has been exhibited at museums and institutions worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou, the San Francisco Museum of…

Nadira Husain draws on heterogenous sources to create layered works which link colours, forms, signs, and symbolism. Her interdisciplinary approach explores colloquial and communal metaphysics while levelling hierarchical distinctions between all components. Husain has exhibited internationally, including a solo show…

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov’s oeuvre is a unique blend of fantasy and introspection. Their universal and lyrical explorations of the human condition not only challenge the cultural tropes of the former Soviet Union but introduce new ways of understanding figuration.…

Zak Kitnick is an artist currently based in Brooklyn. Using industrial and commercial materials, he creates forms that could be seen as utilitarian and art objects at the same time. Blurring the boundaries between architecture and design, Kitnick’s work encourages…

Vincenzo Latronico è uno scrittore e traduttore italiano. È autore di Ginnastica e Rivoluzione, La cospirazione delle colombe e La mentalità dell’alveare (Bompiani, 2008, 2011 e 2013), e di Narciso nelle colonie, con Armin Linke (Quodlibet Humboldt, 2013). Ha tradotto,…

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester. Her books include Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, Aurelia: Art and Literature through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale, Black and Blue: The Bruising…

Mariko Mori is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her practice explores universal questions at the intersection of life, death, reality and technology. Mori’s works highlight her artistic and intellectual practice which combines science, technology and nature. Her work has been acquired…

Ugo La Pietra has defined himself as a researcher in communication systems and in visual arts since 1960. His work has always moved simultaneously in the worlds of art and design and crossed different currents and mediums, from Informalism and…

Social criticism is an essential component of Cesare Pietroiusti’s performances and installations, which often integrate his own drawings. Pietroiusti’s early interest in the social psychology of art relations has since evolved into an examination of the economic production, dissemination and…

Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of the American Studies Program at NYU. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, Artforum, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Creditocracy and the Case…

Kiki’s practice often explores the representation of the body, particularly those of women, in mythology and folklore. Her study of life forms also extends into the natural domains of birds and plants. Conversely, Seton adopts the medium of the photograph…

Light, colour and space are the essential elements of Ettore Spalletti’s practice. His continual pursuit of these core aspects has led him to explore and generate forms in different materials. The surface of his work (whether bi- or three-dimensional) is…

Haim Steinbach’s sculptures present objects rather than representing them. Instead of simply raising issues about consumerism, reproduction and repetition, they force viewers to reckon with the facticity of the object’s existence. Since the late 1980s, Steinbach has exhibited globally in…

Miguel Tamen is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, and currently Dean of its School of Arts and Humanities.  He was a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago, a senior fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center…

Luca Vitone’s representations of geographical locations examine the mapping of place, whether through art, cartography or military conflict. He uses many different methods to recreate specific landscapes, from the gathering of waste materials to abandoning works outside until they are…

Joanna Walsh’s books include Break.up, Vertigo, Hotel, Seed, Grow a Pair and Words from the World’s End. Her writing has been widely anthologized. She has edited fiction and creative nonfiction at 3AM Magazine, Catapult, Five Dials and Gorse Editions. From…

Since 2012 Samuel Wells has been Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London. Previously he was Dean of the Chapel at Duke University in North Carolina. He has published 35…

Zhao Yizhou is widely regarded as the finest contemporary Chinese calligrapher in the UK. His compositions are informed by philosophical, aesthetic and historical inquiry and explore both traditional and contemporary innovations to uncover the principles of Chinese Shufa. Yizhou teaches…

Tobias Zielony is best known for his photographs of juvenile life on the fringes. His images depict desire amidst structural violence and displacement. His sensitivity to the impact of mass culture on our private and personal postures and gestures allows…