Le Journal

With her dramatic technique and a talent for storytelling, Adriana Molder has crafted a strong reputation as a profound, through-provoking artist. Born in Lisbon in 1975, Molder has had a penchant for drama and cinema since her youth. This initially lead her to the theatre, where she completed a ...

After decades of travel and observation, Malaysian-born but Singaporean-based photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong has built a strong rhetoric on the theme of origin, migration and diaspora. His own experience of migration came fairly early, when as a teenager he was uprooted from his home in ...

Traditional Miniature painting (title photo) traces its lineage to Mughal India, Iran and Turkey and continues to be practised there today but it has evolved into a new genre in Pakistan with its own identity and aesthetics. Known as contemporary miniature painting or neo-miniature, this ...

Our world is a vastly interconnected one. It’s almost a truism, by now, after decades of being inundated with promises of the transformative potential of globalisation and network technologies. Across the political spectrum, expressed in various art forms, interpretations and predictions ...

Two thoughts underlie the project, Messages From Another World: on one hand, the realization that space is not empty, but a universe teeming with life that is invisible to ordinary sense perception and on the other, the realization that there are universals common to all humankind. The Swiss are a ...

When Hong Kong was taken over by China in 1997, Margaret Thatcher negotiated with Deng Xiaoping in order to smooth the transition and keep some British marks and traditions that had accompanied the people in Hong Kong. “One China, Two Systems” is a constitutional principle formulated by Deng ...

When it comes to French artist Fabienne Verdier, a single brush stroke is all it takes to make a compelling work of art. A single well-mediated, perfectly executed, and precisely-positioned brushstroke which is a result of over three decades of contemplation and practise. Verdier’s grand canvases ...

Born in 1961, American artists and identical twins Doug and Mike Starn were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence.  They have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally ...

At the age of 69, Chun Kwang Young is today internationally recognized as an artist who has been seeking the essence of his home country, Korea, to infuse it onto the social and political contradictions expressed by the Abstract Expressionist statement. In his work, Chun Kwang Young creates small ...

Here’s an interesting video of sculptor Jedd Novatt discussing his two permanent sculptures installed outside of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Part of his well-known Chaos series, Novatt declines to address the specific concepts behind these dynamic, tense, and seemingly unstable geometric ...

Andy Hei About the Makings of a Successful International Art Fair. So how does one get to become the director of an art fair? Before I started this fair in 2006, I was helping different dealers with their involvement in other similar fairs, so I started from standing in the booth and helping to ...

Coming from France and then living in China, their aesthetic styles and the histories of their aesthetic traditions are very different, and yet you have managed to combine them together seamlessly. How hard was that for you to take something from both sides and be able to bring it together?Fabienne ...