Mimik Magazine

We are very happy the Girl Got Balls series of Marcus Koppen is part of our Flesh Garden exhibition. The series portrays ladyboys in Thailand and tries to capture their intense struggle. Behind the ladyboys' dreams are fundamental human issues about identity, body, beauty, sexuality, race and the longing to be accepted. http://mimikmagazine.com/virtualgallery/marcus-koppen/the-girl-got-balls

Bartosik’s experimentation with form and figure are grounded by an instinct to dream. In her practice, she works to extend drawing elements into the realms painting, sculpture, performance, film/video and installation. With this series of new works, Bartosik offers neither fully animal nor human figures, but rather, hybrid creatures held within a tensed space of the imagined and the real.

"The Line Between Order and Chaos", an interview with Maya Kulenic by Alice Boothby for Mimik Magazine

Kin by Pieter Hugo

The Barbershop

"The human face is enthralling; it is our primary means of communication. Working with the male figure I am interested in re-constructing a painting from photographs that I capture of my subjects. Having my sitters manipulate their own faces in front of the camera I try to reference, indirectly, images of facial deformities that I have archived from medical textbooks. I seek to skew perception, to scrutinize, and to expose a vulnerability in my subjects that is awkward and beautiful" - Andrew Moncrief

"My latest collection “What men live by” was based on the story I wrote, which was inspired by ‘Theory of Life’ by Tolstoy and ‘Seize the day’ by Saul Bello. It is a symbolical, metaphorical statement of an imaginary character’s life who lives in capitalism. Each outfit shown here is meant to symbolize a certain stage of one’s life in capitalism. Born, Adapted (Hole of Greed), Addicted, Reborn and Sacrifice. It was my own interpretation about life, and to pose a very fundamental question ‘why do we live?" - Minky Ha

"The goal of my painting -if I can express it this way- is to find this lost instinct and to confront the modern world with it. Using oil paint as my only medium, I can concentrate on experimenting and developing new techniques. I mostly use the classic brushes, complementing with the use of a knife or my fingers" - Nicolas Tcherno-Ivanenko