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Jan 25, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
On 30 January 2025, Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita will unveil her first solo exhibition in the UK, Into Eternal Land, at The Curve, Barbican. Bringing together diverse media—from embroidery to scent—Sasmita will transform the 90-metre-long gallery into a sprawling landscape that connects cultures, histories, and cosmologies.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
At the end of last week, news of visionary filmmaker David Lynch’s passing was announced. Months before his death, Lynch, aged 78, shared that he’d been diagnosed with emphysema after smoking for decades. One of the most important filmmakers of his era, Lynch’s oeuvre—from Eraserhead and Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive and his cult TV show, Twin Peaks—has been shaping visual culture for more than 50 years, inspiring countless contemporaries across disciplines.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre hosts the first international retrospective of the prolific Vietnamese artist, Trần Lương. An influential figure in his home country, the artist’s work is lesser known outside of South East Asia—though it seems like that’s imminently going to change.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
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Ahead of Reginald Sylvester II’s exhibition at CANADA gallery in New York, opening on 16 January 2025, Something Curated’s Keshav Anand spoke with the Hudson-based artist to learn more about his inspirations and the evolving language of his practice.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Ayurveda is a holistic healing system that originated in India over 3,000 years ago. Offering a wealth of wisdom that remains—certainly in part—relevant today, it is extensively practiced throughout India and Nepal, among other parts of the world. Derived from the Sanskrit words āyus (life) and veda (knowledge), ayurveda seeks to address the intersection of body, mind, and spirit through herbal medicine, diet, meditation, yoga, massage, and more.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Born in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture in 1981, Takuro Kuwata has earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries of ceramics, blending traditional Japanese techniques with modern experimentation for nearly two decades. Opening on 9 January 2025, New York gallery Salon 94 will present an exhibition of new works by the Japanese artist, showcasing his largest body of work in the city to date.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Working across video, photography, sculpture, and sound, Paul Pfeiffer’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates themes of spectacle, belonging, and difference. Born in Honolulu and based in New York, the artist spent much of his childhood in the Philippines—affording him a broader and transnational perspective on American identity.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Paris-based artist Ndayé Kouagou’s cross-disciplinary works evolve from self-authored texts, which serve as a launch pad to explore themes of unease, power, and vulnerability. His meandering output spans performance, film, textiles, sculpture, and installation—often probing the aphoristic language of self-help gurus and online influencers. The artist’s work has recently been shown at major institutions including Fondation Louis Vuitton, Wiels, and Centre Pompidou, among other spaces.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
Born in Seoul and raised in the UK from a young age, Sang Woo Kim probes the tensions and fragmentation of identity lived by many first-generation immigrants. Carefully navigating a space of cultural duality, Kim’s self-portraits explore his experiences as a Korean man coming of age in British society. Through close-cropped compositions and varied textures—ranging from smooth to gestural—the artist focuses on eyes as a central motif.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
somethingcurated.com | Keshav Anand
As a foundation of life and a reservoir of history, soil is a powerful and timeless cultural symbol. The word “human” actually comes from the Latin word “humus,” meaning earth or ground. Reflecting on humanity’s relationship with the Earth, artists have long embraced soil as a medium, from Palaeolithic sculptures to Renaissance frescoes using soil as pigment.
