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The Deep Poetics of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Mengzhu Li’s Work

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Mengzhui Li’s Mother-Daughter is a quiet reckoning — a gentle, complex exploration of the emotional geographies of the mother-daughter relationship, particularly within the specific parameters that exist among only-child families in East Asian cultural contexts. Mutual Disconnect offers a quiet reckoning—a gentle, complex look at the emotional landscape of the mother-daughter relationship, especially within the unique dynamics of only-child families in East Asian cultural contexts.
Ephemeral Beauty: Long Exposure and Identity in Ruonan Shen’s Work

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Ruonan Shen’s “Dreamland” series is a fascinating study of a strained yet fragile relationship between the artificial constructs of humanity and the natural forces that rule our natural world. This series of long-exposure photographs, which comes from the Hequ Village farming areas of Pingshan County, Hebei Province, China, is a poetic conversation between the physical and the spiritual, stillness and movement, reality and surrealism.
Jingyun Guan: A Poetic Dialogue Between Tenderness and Severity

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Jingyun Guan (b. 2001) is a Chinese artist based in London. Since beginning their practice in 2019, they have moved fluidly across media, evolving from photography into fine art. Their 2024 series marks a significant point in their creative trajectory, offering a deeply personal yet theoretically engaged body of work. Here, Guan transforms personal trauma into artistic expression, exploring body politics, gender identity, and cultural belonging with a distinctly poetic sensibility.
Lin Ye’s Beautiful Visual Tales of Control, Identity, and Discovery

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Lin Ye is an illustrator bridging continents and emotional worlds. Originally from China and now based in London, she works at the intersection of culture, childhood, and visual storytelling. Her journey into picture books began with a science title on the coronavirus, co-authored during the early days of the pandemic. The book quickly gained widespread recognition in China for its clarity and emotional sensitivity.
Between Blade and Body: Vespera Xander’s Sculptural Armoury

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Finnish-born visual artist Vespera Xander constructs sculptural forms of armour by assembling them from fragments of razor wire—each one formerly part of a sprawling razor wire coil. These dangerous remnants, arranged piece by piece, accumulate into sharp, gleaming surfaces reminiscent of scales on a cyborgian creature. While her references reach back to medieval and renaissance body armour, Vespera’s vision points decidedly towards a speculative post-human future.
The Art of Becoming: Anyi Ji’s Embrace of Nature’s Cycles

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

In a dusty, shard-littered studio in South London, artist Anyi Ji sinks her hands into moist clay, allowing it to yield to its own gravity and weight. She doesn’t rush to impose form. Instead, she waits—for a response, a rhythm—something intuitive that emerges from within the material itself. “Ceramics embody a paradox between impermanence and permanence,” she reflects. “Once fired, clay transforms from soft earth into a solid, enduring substance. Yet it remains fragile, prone to breaking.
Kwon Woo Koh and the New Visual Rebellion

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.”-Brian Eno Eras of art are defined not by their liberties, but by their restrictions. What is dismissed today as ugly or outdated is likely to become tomorrow’s aesthetic ideal, as the acceptance of a neglected or shunned medium is, for the counterculture, a form of rebellion against conformity.
The Artist as Educator: Yanan He’s Dialogue Between Creation and Pedagogy

2 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Beyond the StudioIn the realm of contemporary art, the boundary between creation and education is increasingly porous. Artists today are not only makers but also mentors, researchers, and facilitators of experience. For Yanan He, the roles of artist and educator are not parallel identities but interconnected practices. Her work in jewellery and her approach to early art education form a feedback loop: creation informs teaching, and teaching reshapes creation.
Missed and Displaced: In Xinan Yang’s From Home

2 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

The Missed series is a rather sentimental body of work by Chinese-born and London-based artist Xinan Yang that wrestles with themes of memory, identity, belongings, and cultural displacement. Her solo exhibition From Home, on view from September 11 to October 7 at Lauderdale House, coinciding with the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrates family togetherness. Yang’s paintings hold tension in their visceral realities and undeniable vulnerabilities.
Author Spotlight: Harris Lahti, ‘Foreclosure Gothic’

2 weeks ago | ourculturemag.com | Sam Franzini

When Vic Greener, former aspiring Hollywood actor, buys a foreclosed home in the Hudson Valley with money he got from a toothpaste commercial, it sets a series of actions into his life that will, eventually, result in his death. He moves into the first one with his wife Heather, but when a 7-foot-tall garbageman moves into the duplex, encroaching on their lives as Heather pulls freakishly large produce from her garden, things get eerie.