Pig Nasty Cuino  was a performance by Fina Ferrara during the era of the pandemic. ‘Cuino’ is a colloquial Spanish term which refers to someone as being dirty. Specifically, in Mexican Spanish, ‘cuino’ implies a person as being a slob or having indecent character. Pig Nasty Cuino  is a performance about the excesses of oligarchy and greed. As a result, the series of performances are more relevant today because of the overreaching advancement of Big Tech during the era of arti

Photographers and photography enthusiasts often have a mythological narrative about analogue format photography, but what are the alluring attributes of digital photography? Do not misinterpret this essay, because we are not discussing digitally-enhanced photography, but rather work which was captured with a digital camera. Although analogue format photography has stunning granial texture and rich contrast, digital photography offers a pleasant saturation, potential for remar

Written by Joas Nebe. Diambe, from São Paulo, Brazil, presents at Kunsthalle Basel. Diambe explores the dynamics of collectives (like a swarm of bees), the resistances which arises from human interventions, and their controllability. All three aspects come together in his video work Cera perdida (Lost wax) , 2025, presented in Basel. A swarm of bees is exposed to a wax cast made from various tropical and non-tropical fruits and their remnants over several hours. The work Cera

Minyu Zhu is a textile and installation artist who has exhibited in major cities including London, Sydney, and Milan. Recent and notable exhibitions include Coalition Across Differences by Sijie and Meichen as well as Point One the Textiles Festival in London, Salon of the Rose + Cross in Sydney, Del Dente in Milan, RCA WIP Show and Safehouse in London. She is also a graduate from the Royal College of Art, widely considered to be the finest art school in the world.  The texti

Theo Luna is an installation, video, light-based, and performance-based artist who has won major awards at festivals hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Berlin Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include a solo feature at Western Pole Gallery in Chicago as well as collective shows at School of Art Institute, Vagabond Arts, and Site Gallery in Chicago and Universität der Künste Berlin. Using light-based projections, shaped neon lights, texts, a

artwork by Joseph Farbrook The most experimental, alternative, and avant-garde art out there is mainly being financed and supported by specialized institutions and platforms (such as Point Pleasant Publishing). We all know about the cuts which have been made to public funding of the arts, which leaves visual art more reliant on private investment. However, even without these cuts, many of these publicly funded venues and platforms are not willing to reach out beyond their imm

Elisabeth Hogeman is a collage artist who also works with photography and video and has exhibited across the United States as well as in Canada, and Italy. Recent and notable exhibitions and screenings include Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Logan Center Gallery at University of Chicago, Deluge Contemporary in Victoria BC, Canada, ROMAN SUSAN in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Spectacle Theater in New York, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.  Vanities

Viet Van Tran is a conceptual photographer and filmmaker who has received more than 130 international photography awards, including Px3 (France), IPA, Master Cup (USA), TIFA (Japan), ND Awards, Travel Photographer of the Year, Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year, and the Pollux Awards (UK). He is the author of nine books, notably Dharma and Life (EU-sponsored), and his work has appeared in international publications such as Photo (France), Silvershotz (Australia), Dodho (