Ilaria Sponda

1 month ago | 1854.photography | Ilaria Sponda

All images © Chelsea Pineda The emerging Filipino-American artist’s project Barako exhibited at Photo Fringe 2024Every man must, at some point, confront the ways in which patriarchal culture shapes and limits his understanding of himself. Systems of patriarchy have long denied men access to full emotional well-being, discouraging tenderness, vulnerability, and deep self-reflection.

2 months ago | c41magazine.com | Ilaria Sponda

Erris Huigens’ work represents a contemporary practice of public art-making and space rethinking practices. Rooted in an ethos guided by the frictions between minimalism and graffiti art, his work resides at the intersection of street art and in-studio work. In this dialogue, Huigens—also known as Deconstructie—reflects on the industrial sites he privileges for his paintings and his polyvalent relationship to them.

Jan 17, 2025 | 1854.photography | Ilaria Sponda

All images © Bachir Tayachi The Tunis-born fashion artist uses photography to express the complications of queer love and personal historyAn apparently empty warehouse – B7L9, a new art centre in the Tunis La Marsa district – hosts three rooms that encapsulate different phases of the artist’s emotional journey after a breakup, from the aftermath of loss to the possibility of rebirth.

Jan 13, 2025 | 1854.photography | Ilaria Sponda

Informed by his own experiences with migration and photography, Mohamed Keita set up spaces for self-determinationBorn in Ivory Coast in 1993 and a refugee in Italy at 17 years old, Mohamed Keita picked up photography by chance when he was offered the opportunity to learn the basics at a migrant reception centre in Rome’s San Lorenzo neighbourhood. “Every Wednesday, two photographers from Salerno, southern Italy, gave us photography classes as volunteers,” he explains.

Jun 12, 2024 | c41magazine.com | Ilaria Sponda

Daniel de Paula is an artist and researcher born in Boston, and currently based between São Paulo and Amsterdam. His work focuses on how space reflects power dynamics, bringing attention to the political, social, economic, historical, and bureaucratic structures that influence contemporary environments and relationships. Beyond visual arts, de Paula’s practice and production intersect with geography, geology, architecture, and urbanism.