Inside: C20
Inside this issue, photography responds to these questions with striking clarity. Steve McQueen: Atlas is at De Pont Museum, where the artist and filmmaker turns to landscapes as observers of history, exploring colonial legacies and the traces they leave on terrain and memory. Latitudes at ICP, New York, situates Côte d’Ivoire-based artist Nuits Balnéaires within a dialogue of geography, identity and cultural memory. A new monograph about architecture studio BIG, meanwhile, features standout contemporary buildings. It includes images where light and shadow articulate structure, form and the rhythms of our lived world. These projects illustrate how image-making maps the emotional and historical landscapes we navigate.
Within this wider conversation, this issue’s photographers explore perception in strikingly individual ways. Linda Westin experiments with texture and hyperreal colour palettes, inviting us to look through portals to other worlds. Harold Ross demonstrates precision, crafting luminous images of trees that reward careful attention, whilst Senay Berhe finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, revealing what often goes unseen. Jane Fulton Alt renders the natural world with intimate clarity, and Chrissy Lush crafts staged domestic scenes filled with tension. The cover photographer, Tina Simakova, makes portraits that capture the nuances of her subjects. Finally, the Last Words go to Low Kee Hong, on the Ai Weiwei show at Aviva Studios. Across this issue, art and photography remind us why creative practice is indispensable: as a witness, provocation and a vital space to encounter the world differently – perhaps even to change it.
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Aesthetica is a visual art and contemporary culture journal. Aesthetica supports innovation in the arts through various projects; the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, the Aesthetica Art Prize, and the Creative Writing Competition.
Size: 210 x 297mm
Pages: 146
