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Sara is a Spanish-Italian journalist and a history of art graduate from the Courtauld in London. In 2021, she was awarded the Michael O’Pray Prize for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image and has, since then, written for publications including i-D, Artsy, and RADII. She has lived in Tokyo, Rome, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and London, and is currently in Madrid doing a master's in journalism at El País.
In a photograph taken ten years ago, a child lies face down on the shore of a beach, his head turned towards the waves, his hands facing upwards. If it wasn't for the damp red t-shirt and blue shorts that he wears, one could think that he was asleep.
RADII saw firsthand how contemporary Chinese photographers are taking the medium beyond its traditional conventions. Here's our roundup of innovative photographers who are reshaping the landscape.
The fair brings together artists from all over China who are experimenting with different kinds of mediums and materials, while proposing an alternative to the traditional art fair.
Through his ongoing series 'Resident Aliens', photographer Xu Guanyu collaborates with immigrants to transform their homes into spatial collages using photographs from their personal archives. We tap into the artist to learn more about his intention, process, and residency in Shanghai.
I was still in high school the first time I went to Hong Kong for Art Basel. I remember taking it all rather seriously: I annotated the map of the fair to make sure I didn’t miss a single booth, collected business cards from gallery reps, thinking I would reach out for advice on working in the art world (I never did), and quickly filled my phone storage with hundreds of photographs of artworks I liked and their labels (I still do)...
Hong Kong’s art industry and the habits of those involved in it have been experiencing a shift since the COVID-19 pandemic. With travel restrictions not ending entirely in Hong Kong until early 2023, residents were unable to travel abroad and had to spend more time engaging with what was happening within the city...
Two millennial Chinese men stare the viewer straight in the eye in Chen Fei’s life-size portrait entitled Friendship (2023). Based on the artist and his friend, both men have almost identical buzzcuts and wear the same attire, with a red tie and the word “comrade” engraved on each of their tie slides...
Traditional Italian restaurants have a distinctive style: the wooden tables wrapped by chequered tablecloths, the house wine served in carafes, and the walls decorated with black-and-white stills from old Italian films. As we picture ourselves sitting at one of those tables reading through the menu, debating which antipasti we should order to share and if we’re feeling like getting a primo, a secondo, or why not both, we might take a moment to look up at those pictures on the walls...
The Artist Room presents Tired City, Leonardo Devito's second solo exhibition with the gallery. In this exhibition, Devito imagines a new world where past and present, antiquity and modernity, personal experiences and collective memories collide. Drawing the title of his exhibition from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972), Devito blends the real with the fantastical, proposing an alternate world where growing up may not necessarily mean living in a more cynical environment.
I'm not the biggest fan of thrillers. With the ominous soundtracks and the constantly underlying discomforting atmosphere, there's something unpleasant about feeling as if something's about to go wrong. We're made to feel uncomfortable and uneasy with the lingering suspense. When one looks at Portuguese-Canadian artist Emanuel de Carvalho's monumental paintings, we experience a similar bodily reaction...
German artist Matthias Groebel has been transferring the electronic signals of televisions, encrypted channels and real-life footage onto the canvas since the 1980s.
On certain Saturday nights out in the historie queer bars o f London's Soho, as you groove to Cher's Believe or Ava Max's Sweet but Psycho with a G&T in one hand and your friend's hand in the other, you may be approached by a friendly face holding a pink bucket. They'll introduce themselves a s members o f Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants (LGSMigrants) and tell you about what they're doing: bucket shaking - a fundraising tactic inspired by Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM)...
The performer and creator of beings tells us about an alternative world through her failed experiments and hybrid creatures
The museum first became a safe haven for my mental wellbeing when I was a kid. I remember having to follow my grandad’s slow pace as I held his hand, patiently walking along, looking at artwork after artwork. I learned how to concentrate on one single piece at a time; to be present and block out everything else around me. Since then, it has become my go-to place to relax, a familiar space of tranquillity where I can be inspired and find comfort from the often overwhelming world that we live...
In her new photo book Centrefold, artist Carly Ries repurposes hardcore and softcore magazine shoots from the 70s and 80s to examine objectivity and subjectivity in nude portraiture.
We often stop ourselves from doing things because we don't have anyone to go with. From eating at a restaurant to going to the cinema, there seems to be an unspoken rule stating that doing things alone is strange and abnormal...
Toronto-based photographer Saem captures his online community offline in 'Age, Sex, Location'
His new book 'Come Out, 1985-1995' captures the pride demonstrations from his community under.
Thomas Boivin reminisces on the decade he lived in the northeast of Paris through his nostalgic new photobook 'Ménilmontant'.
Para celebrar los 50 años del trébol, adidas Originals presenta las historias de los iconos culturales del momento.
The photographer Paolo di Paolo and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled along the country's coast, capturing the idyllic summer of 1959.
Outside the South Quay Shed on Whitstable Harbour, one can read in large white text printed on the floor, 'An eleven-year-old boy from Aleppo / whose eyes hold only things no longer there.' These are the first verses of Mimi Khalvati's poem 'Afterwardness', the title given to this year's Whitstable Biennale...
Lonnie Holley’s songs and artworks are raw and ephemeral markers – songs that cannot be adjusted or fixed as they are only ever played once, and artworks that use abandoned and discarded objects, no longer needed by their past owners.
Sara Quattrocchi Febles explores how a film can no longer be fixed in time and place when screened outdoors.
Per mezzo delle parole definiamo ciò che la realtà riporta davanti ai nostri occhi sia nella sua essenza tangibile che astratta. Tuttavia, nel momento in cui cerchiamo di descrivere sensazioni intangibili conferendo loro un’immagine univoca comprensibile a tutti, i diversi linguaggi presentano delle limitazioni. Non a caso, stesse parole possono avere concezioni diverse nell’immaginario collettivo a seconda del tipo di linguaggio che viene utilizzato...
When I arrived to London as a just-turned-eighteen, fresh-out-of-school fresher, I imagined the cosmopolitan city as one that was rendered unique through its blend and assortment of different people; one that provided equal opportunities to all who stepped in it, just if they worked hard enough...
Art Residency
Danish artist and designer Victor Miklos Andersen began experimenting with materials and objects long before moving to Venice, the city famous for its Murano glassware, in 2023. His journey with objects began in a small forest on the outskirts of Kalundborg, Denmark, where he grew up.
Kunming-born artist Guo Qikai still vividly remembers waiting in a sterile emergency room on a stormy night in 1997, when he was just three years old...
Since March, three Italian artists have been drawing, painting, sculpting and building artworks from the outskirts of Shanghai at the Rabor Nova Art Park in Songjiang District. It was the first time that all three – Andrea Polichetti, Riccardo ‘Simafra’ Prosperi, and Alessandro Giannì – had traveled to, let alone lived in, China...
Roman-born artist Andrea Polichetti couldn’t have imagined that a traditional calligraphy shop on Fuzhou Road in Shanghai would alter the course of his three-month-long art residency...
With pots of paint on the floor, desks moved to the side, and large canvases leaning against every wall, Turin-born artist Emanuele Tozzoli’s current studio at the Rabornova Art Park in Shanghai’s Songjiang District feels like a playground...
Nowadays, to see an artwork displayed in a museum on the other side of the world, the only thing we need to do is look it up on our phones. “When we look at an artwork through a digital screen, we’re only looking at the image of it,” says Italian artist Alessandro Giannì...
