Category: Archive

Death by Powerpoint Interview by Sonia Leimer, 2023 SL: You’ve chosen to use two tables in the office as a pedestal to exhibit your work. Does your work always change in response to the space, and how did the furniture and space modify this specific piece? BA: This work, and even the entire exhibition, emerged […]

The Ass in the Tiger’s skin by Elliot Lewis, 2023 the tiger’s mightthe ass’ sinthe tiger might have skinnedherselfa rug a cape a cloak a clawa hidden beasta broken law excoriated second skinhung upon the wretch’s fleshthe wretched stretchof dermis drawnabraded thinuntil the light creepssight seeps in there lies the braying fool within Exhibition text […]

MAAAAAAACH! by Katherine Waters, 2022 Brishty Alam’s artworks are invested with a magical, shape-shifting quality; her pieces are lively, stirred by the possibilities they embody. Unfolding themselves in gregarious and frequently surprising ways, they adapt to, resist and converse with their environments. big-fish, little-fish, card-board-box, a sculpture that once stood tall in a courtyard, paraded […]

If we are to hold water by Miriam Stoney, 2021 Brishty Alam works knowingly with slippages between scientific models (chemical structure, properties, composition, reactions) and what we might call social, cultural, political or economic processes. She reanimates these models in unexpected contexts, both undermining and reappraising the usefulness of a universalising gaze, such as that […]