SOISONG – LOM TUM LAI KWEE

Posted on 2025-02-17

Following the ethereal soundscapes of the previous year’s qXn948s, Ivan Pavlov and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson’s SoiSong project did an almost 180 and embarked on the route of song with xAj3z. Influenced by Sleazy’s Thailand homebase, the duo alchemised elements from the Thai language and genres like luk thung into fusions of jazz, classical, trip hop, electronica, ambient, and even post rock breakdowns, creating some of the most gorgeous and arresting music to come from either artist. Crystalline MIDI keys and pulled bass curiously tiptoe between dissonance and gentle melody, mysterious with their staccato jaunts as digital voices contort, an evocative exercise in restraint away from their previously whirring industrial machinations.

www.soisong.org

  

LUIS GONZÁLEZ PALMA – MÖBIUS

Posted on 2025-02-17

Luis González Palma is among the most recognizable Latin American photographers. The early work he is canonized for address the difficult past of his birth country of Guatemala and its people. This history of engagement spans topics from the colonial plight of the Mayan people to the legacy of the civil war and “the disappeared.” González Palma employs the intimacy of portraiture, weight of the gaze, and qualities of chosen materials to drive meaning in his work. But this is only the beginning.

Opposite – Luis González Palma. Möbius, 2014

Exhibition runs through to June 21st, 2025

Obscura Gallery
225 Delgado Street
Santa Fe
NM 87501

obscuragallery.net

  

JENNA GRIBBON – RAINBOWS IN SHADOWS

Posted on 2025-02-17

Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1978. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, US.
Gribbon’s paintings explore the feelings and implications of seeing and being seen. Her paintings are intimate portraits of her friends, wife, family and fellow painters, which encourage the viewer to reflect on their role as a consumer of beauty, and intimacy and as voyeurs of the narratives of others. A focus on vision permeates every layer of Gribbon’s work, with titles such as ‘Ritualized Looking’, ‘Deck Peek’ and ‘When I looked at you, the light changed’. The scenes are painted from Gribbon’s first point perspective, making the artist’s presence felt by emphasising her particular viewpoint. The viewer directly replaces the artist, seeing Gribbon’s subject from the exact position that she occupied in the scene, not only looking at the subject but invited to view Gribbon’s own experience of looking at them.

Opposite – Hallway camouflage, 2025

Exhibition runs through to September 6th, 2025

MASSIMODECARLO
Viale Lombardia 17
20131 Milan
Italy8

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

SMALL FORBIDDEN BRAIN BY EMILIO GARCIA

Posted on 2025-02-17

For well over a decade Spanish artist Emilio Garcia has created thoughtful, inspirational and gleaming art sculptures celebrating the marvel that is the human brain. Staring with his frog-inspiredJumping Brain and continuing with the explosive Brainade and others, Garcia’s brainy pieces have defined and honed his signature aesthetic.

For 2025, Garcia returns to his popular Forbidden Brain concept, a gleaming apple shaped brain inspired by the origin story. The new Small Forbidden Brain offers the charm of the elevated original at a smaller palm-friendly size. Garcia’s exacting craftsmanship is as you’d expect in this smaller size, from the gleaming resin finish, brass stem and more. The new piece is a great introduction to Garcia’s cerebral art and well-suited to nearly any display space.

Signed and numbered editions of 100.

www.emiliogarcia.org

  

DROUGHT – MS PAINT MIRROR

Posted on 2025-02-10

Drought is once again serving up a healthy dose of nostalgia in the form of a new statement home decor piece. In the past year alone, the Jake Olshan-helmed design collective has made mirrors in the form of a bloodied knife and, most recently, its iPod Nano-shaped iMirror.

Standing as a 4-foot-tall wall mirror, the Drought MS Paint Mirror draws design inspiration from the infamous Windows 95 MS Paint interface. True to form, the mirror features a toolbar on top – with “Drought” as the last clickable option – as well as a function bar on the left side, a scroll bar on the right side, and a palette of paint colors underneath another scroll bar on the bottom.

www.cameupinthedrought.com

  

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN

Posted on 2025-02-10

Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.

In theatres February 14th, 2025

becomingledzeppelinfilm.com