THE HIDDEN ART

THE HIDDEN ART

by Dejan Aksentijevic
Video & Animation
The news reverberated like the sound of a bomb! A collection of over 1400 masterpieces, more than one billion euros worth, which was thought to have been destroyed in Allied bombing, was found in Cornelius...Read all

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N'Goné Fall Natasa Petresin Bachelez
Thread of a Plot: A Study of Garden Paths

Thread of a Plot: A Study of Garden Paths

by Olivia Punnett
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner. H.E. Bates...Read all

Jury

Roldan-Alzate Mélanie Mermod
Gravity

Gravity

by Caterina Silva
Painting & Drawing
What happens to the Thing when someone says it? Does it live? Does it die? How to imagine an open form able to go beyond the limits of the language in describing reality? How to pronounce something...Read all

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Daria de Beauvais Pedro  Vélez
Ecosistema 1

Ecosistema 1

by Adriano Valeri
Painting & Drawing
A nervous and acidic description of an anonymous architectural margin.

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Pedro  Vélez andrea bruciati
NAM #06

NAM #06

by
Painting & Drawing
first work belonging to the new cycle called "New AnatoMies"

Jury

Daria de Beauvais
Curtain

Curtain

by
Video & Animation
Through a continuous loop of repetitions and variations Curtain investigates the constant restaging and confirming of certain gestures we perform to maintain a notion of whom we are. A broad fabric of...Read all

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Antonia Alampi
VOID  (SUNYATA)

VOID (SUNYATA)

by
Photography & Digital Graphics
'Sunyata' is a Sanskrit term that equates to zero or nothing, usually translated as emptiness, derived from 'Sunya' which means empty or void, it is a central concept of many spiritual traditions and Cosmological...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Hands in Prayer

Hands in Prayer

by Samantha Couto
Painting & Drawing
Since suffering is a common denominator across the globe, prayer dominates in all cultures and religions, people depend on prayer to take them through their lives. Its a form of guidance or support to...Read all

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jelle bouwhuis
She Shoulda Said No

She Shoulda Said No

by
Painting & Drawing
‘She Shoulda Said No’ (the title of which is taken from a 1949 exploitation film) is a celebration of the theme of dance recurrent in my work. For me, drawing and dancing are synonymous in that they are...Read all

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jelle bouwhuis
The Black Rectangle

The Black Rectangle

by
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
The Black Rectangle installation is an object of painted paper, made using an own weaving and knotting technique. Supported by the Ministry of Human Resources, Lajos Kozma Crafts and Design Grant, Hungary,...Read all

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Roldan-Alzate
Every Stylite Is Derivative

Every Stylite Is Derivative

by
Painting & Drawing
every stylite is derivative Is an installation made using found objects and drawings to compose an environment in a space. I have been looking at history, interested in our current sociopolitical moment...Read all

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Pedro  Vélez
Larice Millenario (IT) / Alerce Milenario (CHI)

Larice Millenario (IT) / Alerce Milenario (CHI)

by
Painting & Drawing
3000 yera old Alerce, painted plain air at the patagonian rainforest of southern chile, in 1:1 scale.

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andrea bruciati
To:

To:

by
Photography & Digital Graphics
To: As part of an ongoing project on the remembrance of WWII, the grid installation containing envelopes of field post addressed to my grandmother reads like a metaphor of a passive feminine position...Read all

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Katerina  Chuchalina
Hypotrochoid of Albrecht Durer and Apion of Giordano Riccati # 03

Hypotrochoid of Albrecht Durer and Apion of Giordano Riccati # 03

by
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
130 x 40 cm, wood, ceramic, paint, 2014

Jury

Mélanie Mermod
Untitled

Untitled

by
Painting & Drawing

Jury

andrea bruciati
ANAESTHESIA

ANAESTHESIA

by
Video & Animation

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Antonia Alampi
Unicorn

Unicorn

by Anastasia Booth
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Unicorn critically explores representations of sexuality and female desire through specific divergent cultures, including fetish and S and M communities. The sculptural assemblage plays upon the term ‘Unicorn’ and...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Corn and quarries

Corn and quarries

by Sonia Payes
Video & Animation
There are few things more soothing than watching the wind comb through field of golden corn, the gently, mesmerizing swaying stalks, the notion of sustenance and abundance, security and prosperity. But...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
"Picasso"

"Picasso"

by
Photography & Digital Graphics
GARDENS, 2013 This project was seen in small buildings or huts, that parcelistes, gardeners of farmers who cultivate gardens of Lower Llobregat near to Barcelona, made whit his own hands and so...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
KAIA

KAIA

by Ainhoa Akutain
Photography & Digital Graphics
Pier dimensions 406x201,5x71,5x80,5 cm Kaia is pier in Basque. It is also a feminine name variable of Kai (Hawaiian) y Kaya (Japanese, Zulu, Turkish, Hopi and Hindu) meaning sea, refuge or the desired...Read all

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Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield
Agressphere

Agressphere

by Angle 24
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
We believe that every one has aggression, which a kind of hormone in the brain, had a role in controlling aggression as they do in some other fundamental behaviors like feeding and mating. For instance,...Read all

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Elena Sorokina
Fragmented Memory

Fragmented Memory

by claRa apaRicio yoldi
Video & Animation
Memory is not just the capacity of the individual to establish, preserve and remember the past. Memory recalls unmethodically fragments of the past. It doesn’t necessarily see History as an intellectual o...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
200,000

200,000

by victoria Arney
Painting & Drawing
200,000 etching 2013 version 3 Is an intaglio etching on 2 sheets held together by a chine colle circle of stained japanese paper. Both these prints are made on zinc and etched then printed in gold/black....Read all

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Daria de Beauvais
Johnny Who?

Johnny Who?

by Crystal Ashike
Photography & Digital Graphics
A young native american traditional dancer.

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Absent Use

Absent Use

by Eleanor Leonne Bennett
Photography & Digital Graphics
The face of the changing high street. Especially that of the Northern towns I've lived in. The cost to run a shop as opposed to running a business online makes the following image a common sight. The grey,...Read all

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Katerina  Chuchalina
On Suspension

On Suspension

by Pamela Breda
Photography & Digital Graphics
Visual enquiries on the theme of displacement and lack of points of reference typical of contemporaneity. A condition I experienced more strongly while living in a foreign country. Even if I was physically...Read all

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Elena Sorokina
For Milty

For Milty

by Nathan Budoff
Painting & Drawing
a work that talks about movement, identity and memeory

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Pedro  Vélez
PLAYING LEGO WITH MY EGO

PLAYING LEGO WITH MY EGO

by Stefano Buro
Video & Animation
Every time I meet someone I take a piece of them and I give a part of me. A puzzle of faces, a golem of lives.

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N'Goné Fall
Riflessioni (dittico)

Riflessioni (dittico)

by Giovanni Canova
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
About the performance: http://www.celesteprize.com/portfolios/idu:76177/idn:6230/ Our relationship with food is only too often compulsive, a sort of emotional pillow easily piloted by suggestions and...Read all

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Roldan-Alzate
NO.93

NO.93

by Mongoose Chen
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Caution tape with the message"Danger! This square is full of Mongoose Chen". It is arranged into 10 squares inside each other.

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Andrew Hunt
Perdus - sans titre 06 -

Perdus - sans titre 06 -

by Burelli Claire
Photography & Digital Graphics
My research focuses on the concepts of memory and memories. Fascinated by technology, I am trying to reinterpret archival footage through software tools , creating links between past and present . It...Read all

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Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield
borderline

borderline

by claudio demicheli
Photography & Digital Graphics

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Elena Sorokina
Biocities China - HongKong 1

Biocities China - HongKong 1

by Carlo D'Orta
Photography & Digital Graphics
“Biocities” is a research on the contemporary landscape. It digs underneath the first layer of urban appearance. Here, structures become architectural synapses and macro-elements remind us of the cellular mic...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
(De)Composition Parigi Defence 1

(De)Composition Parigi Defence 1

by Carlo D'Orta
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Photography is the key to analysing this complexity, most of all, the key to breaking it down through a double procedure: de-structuring the feelings associated with image and de-structuring both image...Read all

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Mélanie Mermod
Regret

Regret

by Aleksandr Dal Cero
Photography & Digital Graphics
"The past of a place, the present of a man, two realities in contrast, with the uncertainty of an unlikely future. “ From my personal project "dust", is the interaction between the man with t...Read all

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Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield
Quid Feci? The paradoxical and precarious journey of my body

Quid Feci? The paradoxical and precarious journey of my body

by van Dijck Daniel
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Quid Feci? The paradoxical and precarious journey of my body This question, Quid Feci?, deals with the life-changing decisions we have to make in our lives, which often lead to an inevitable paradox....Read all

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Daniele Balit
Radici

Radici

by Gioia Danielis
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Going back to our roots to know ourselves. We can't go wrong. Back to the roots means completing our nature. The more rooted we are, the higher we can go, just like a tree rooted in the earth, stretches...Read all

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Elena Sorokina
Lat 27,8053

Lat 27,8053

by giorgio donders
Photography & Digital Graphics
“I miei punti di vista” ("My points of view") are photographs thesis to capture a precise particular, a fragment of reality that the human eye tends to usually do not look carefully, due to its ability to ...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
SWING

SWING

by Kaisa Eiche
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
SWING Authors: Kaisa Eiche, Urmo Mets Description of the installation: 1. The swing can be disassembled and reassembled. The installation consists of the following structural elements: upper and...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Untitled

Untitled

by Iori Endo
Painting & Drawing

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Elena Sorokina
Life Copy

Life Copy

by Jason File
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Life Copy is a video installation consisting of a real book about terrorism that I co-authored, alongside video footage of an internationally televised appearance on CNN performing as a “terrorism expert.” Her...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Shavings

Shavings

by Nicolas Fleming
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
In Shavings, paint particles of sawdust are dropped and spread on glass. They are then set in a puddle of acrylic medium. At first part of an installation regrouping three other elements and an angled...Read all

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Mélanie Mermod
SharkBanana

SharkBanana

by Graziano Folata
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Can an image fall out from visual space provided by a photograph? Slide out of the perimeter of the format and access the materiality of reality? Something very similar happened with "SHARKBANANA"....Read all

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Andrew Hunt
L'anniversaire

L'anniversaire

by Emilie Franceschin
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
This video performance involves this festive event anniversary as a sad moment of solitude. Finally this act of blowing out candles becomes an act of tension where the viewer is caught in this game étiendre ...Read all

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Daniele Balit
FRAMMENT-AZIONE

FRAMMENT-AZIONE

by Enrico Frusciante
Photography & Digital Graphics

Jury

Katerina  Chuchalina
Fiat Lux

Fiat Lux

by Gabriela Gonzalez Larsson
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
The installation aims to engage the viewer in an informal investigation of the unearthed object in relation to print, and in print. It consists of a set of six wood engravings, each with a corresponding...Read all

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Roldan-Alzate
In the bush

In the bush

by Alexander Graf von Schlieffen
Painting & Drawing
Two young girls looking for their hamster in the bush

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jelle bouwhuis
of delicacy and horror #6

of delicacy and horror #6

by Vivian Ho
Painting & Drawing
"Of delicacy and horror #6" is part of a large-scaled oil paintings series of dead fishes. Vivian challenges the traditional view on beauty and conventional style of still-life and landscape paintings....Read all

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jelle bouwhuis
Suspended Monologue

Suspended Monologue

by Matthew Humphreys
Video & Animation
A signed monologue becomes a dance of hands in a silent space. This piece is to be played on loop on a 4:3 monitor. Suspended Monologue 2012 1m37s Video Loop on 4:3 Monitor Silent

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Natasa Petresin Bachelez
Goodbye

Goodbye

by Matthew Humphreys
Video & Animation
From 2010-2013 I recorded every departure from my parents home on an iPhone. I present the video alongside 47 pages of script that contain all of the dialogue that occurred. I form relationships with...Read all

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Antonia Alampi
Primordial incantation

Primordial incantation

by Juss&Evelin
Video & Animation
Every nation has it´s origin, it´s story and history. Some get written down, some get told mouth to mouth by one generation to the next, some may have been forgotten about, but they always live on in u...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
Visit Autostadt

Visit Autostadt

by Helga Kalversberg
Photography & Digital Graphics
I like to combine Foto with new modern media

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Elena Sorokina
Nr. 100

Nr. 100

by Brigitte Kempers
Photography & Digital Graphics
This photograph brings about what the photographer intended: the viewer to pay for his thoughts for his free associative space. To ensure the ambiguity, we will refrain from titling photos and assigned...Read all

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Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield
'Origin'       (read the description important!)

'Origin' (read the description important!)

by Dries Ketels
Painting & Drawing
The painting shown here is an interpretation of a cartographic image of our world 65 million years ago (cretaceous). The artist asked himself the following question "which entity is most responsible for...Read all

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jelle bouwhuis
Cartamodello di piccola casa 2 (Norma Standard's home)

Cartamodello di piccola casa 2 (Norma Standard's home)

by Alessio Larocchi
Painting & Drawing
Alessio Larocchi was born in Milan, where he attended Modern Humanities with a specialization in Fine Art at the State University of Milan and also obtained a diploma at the Brera Art Academy. He lives...Read all

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Daria de Beauvais
With a Grain of Sand

With a Grain of Sand

by Leah Laws
Photography & Digital Graphics
Thirteen grains of sand collected from Coogee beach in eastern Australia are displyed. Each grain of sand appears twice. Once as a light microscope image, displaying the true colour of the sand. Once as...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
C'era

C'era

by zanbagh lotfi
Installation, Sculpture & Performance

Jury

Roldan-Alzate
Mike the headless chicken

Mike the headless chicken

by Luca De Angelis
Painting & Drawing
The work "Mike the headless chicken" was born from a documentary photo archive found on the web which decribes the long survival of a hen that was beheaded. Although there are some documents reporting...Read all

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andrea bruciati
Pinball Communion

Pinball Communion

by Tyler Mallison
Painting & Drawing
Pinball communion explores the notions of institutional structures and their relationship to our contemporary position. Through image, visual and social codes, it prompts engagement in the ‘game’ and con...Read all

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Pedro  Vélez
Curami

Curami

by Marika Marchese
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
The first step is always the same: finding the title of the work. For many artists an incipit is a necessary, a philosophical and literary event that leads to the creative moment, a voluntary choice to...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Umore Nero - Casi di solitudine

Umore Nero - Casi di solitudine

by alan marcheselli
Photography & Digital Graphics
Black mood … that condition of summons extraneity that circumvents our relation with the word. Where auto-commiseration is the cerement we dress and the food we feed our souls. Image realized w...Read all

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Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield
Ritual for Hamlet

Ritual for Hamlet

by MATARO DA VERGATO
Video & Animation
"Ritual for Hamlet" Work in progress 2001 / 2013 One-act play in three scenes for Performer and Video Installation Performance/study about Hamlet of W. Shakespeare edited by Mataro da Vergato Notes This...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
Perso in un pesce d'acqua

Perso in un pesce d'acqua

by Mauro Falsini
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Audio-visual installation, glass, milk. The work simulates water leaking from the roof of a room. Water doesn't fall all the way to the ground, but is collected inside a glass on the floor, which contains...Read all

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Daniele Balit
Tapestry

Tapestry

by Nicole Moserle
Photography & Digital Graphics
Tapestry The time that passes, the roads taken and made Grudgingly abated, the memories of olden days Cast before us now the worn tapestry of time A diagram of choices, of weeks and years gone by. (P.M....Read all

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Katerina  Chuchalina
#Inches (100 Kilotons)(#Layers)=YIELD

#Inches (100 Kilotons)(#Layers)=YIELD

by Emerson David Myers
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
YIELD! Two powers speak to each other in a language of intimidation, testing an idling engine of destruction. 08/06/45 FATMAN .21” (100 kilotons)(1 Layer) = 21 kt Yield 08/09/45 LITTLEBOY .16” (10...Read all

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Roldan-Alzate
The Vines: Amongst the birds/they writhe/breathing with the clouds/but on the ground they lie-/forgotten

The Vines: Amongst the birds/they writhe/breathing with the clouds/but on the ground they lie-/forgotten

by Clara Nguyen
Painting & Drawing
Egg tempera, 23 karat gold leaf, fish glue, Indian ink on papyrus

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jelle bouwhuis
ENDURING LIGHT

ENDURING LIGHT

by Yaz Norris
Photography & Digital Graphics
[This is a tryptic made up of three printed black and white photographs framed size A1] “Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O, mighty process! What t...Read all

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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
ESG The Praying Machine

ESG The Praying Machine

by Txema Novelo
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Inspired by Canadian artist Brion Gysin’s "Dream Machine" as well as the "Rock my Religion" video work by American Artist Dan Graham, this latest project resonates with my seven-year trajectory that r...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Flower walk

Flower walk

by sabrina osborne
Photography & Digital Graphics
This photograph was clicked in Maduria, the temple city’s flower market. I found myself absorbed in this riot of colorful flowers- burning marigolds, shy lotuses being sold by kilograms and worked in t...Read all

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Elena Sorokina
'METAMORPHOSIS CHAT'

'METAMORPHOSIS CHAT'

by Ferhat Özgür
Video & Animation
The video work Metamorphosis Chat (2010) cites the narrative frame of Turkish soap operas. The actors in Özgür’s films are often acquaintances and relatives. Together they seek images and gestures to ...Read all
* Inspite of the 1 preference which this work received, it cannot be included in the finalist shortlist as it does not comply Article.3 of the Terms & Conditions, which states"..works for the final exhibition. Works submitted to the prize must have

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Natasa Petresin Bachelez
Silver Moon, Blue Planet, Blue Note

Silver Moon, Blue Planet, Blue Note

by Pawel Janicki
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Silver Moon, Blue Planet, Blue Note is a music-space-performance - the performance is based on live video and data feeds from International Space Station (ISS) and other satellite sources. Captured data...Read all

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Mélanie Mermod
ENACTION

ENACTION

by Carlotta Piccinini
Video & Animation
VIDEO BY CARLOTTA PICCININI / MUSIC BY LUIGI MASTANDREA Enaction is an audiovisual narration, the staging of an organic form that produces its own world through the perception and movements of his own...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
9991/24 (DYNAMIC BIOGRAPHY)

9991/24 (DYNAMIC BIOGRAPHY)

by Richter/Meyer/Marx (Berlin)
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
"Who Am I – And If So, How Many?" (Richard David Precht , german philosopher) "For what is a man, what has he got? / If not himself, then he has naught / To say the things he truly feels and not the w...Read all

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Andrew Hunt
Blind and Burt.

Blind and Burt.

by graeme robertson
Photography & Digital Graphics
Blind child who was poisoned by his parents at because of his disability.

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Elena Sorokina
There Is Nothing Complicated About A Bed

There Is Nothing Complicated About A Bed

by Emma Roche
Painting & Drawing
Acrylic on stretcher wood, 33cm (h) x 38cm (w) x 30cm (d)

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jelle bouwhuis
Eyeliner

Eyeliner

by Hanna Saarikoski
Video & Animation
In the video Eyeliner, a woman draws – or, more accurately, traces – the outlines of her face with a black pen eyeliner. When a line finds the borders of the face, the woman turns her head and begins the...Read all

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Natasa Petresin Bachelez
Corte Marcial

Corte Marcial

by Rocío Sáenz
Painting & Drawing
My current work it´s about the power, the struggle, the authority and the relation between them. Contain a sublte of social critique, lampooning characters and situations. It´s really enjoyable to show s...Read all

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Daria de Beauvais
He Said He’d Live 1000 Years

He Said He’d Live 1000 Years

by Tully Satre
Painting & Drawing
Each painting I make begins with a surface area (or ‘sheet’) at least four times the size of the finished product. This area may be a large un-stretched canvas on which I have painted fields of color or ...Read all

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Pedro  Vélez
Voliera / Birdcage

Voliera / Birdcage

by Giulia Martina Serafini
Painting & Drawing
Piece taken from a pencil drawing series portraying people's passage through cities.

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andrea bruciati
Story of a Curse #1

Story of a Curse #1

by Negin Sharifzadeh
Video & Animation
Story of a Curse, is inspired by my mother's story of moving through loss and despair.
She was two weeks away from her due date that she realized there was something wrong with the baby in her womb. t...Read all

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Antonia Alampi
Samsara

Samsara

by Shivalux
Photography & Digital Graphics
The image shows pilgrims and devotees of the Maha Kumbh Mela - the largest spiritual gathering on the planet, held every 12 years. Though every religion is welcomed, mainly Hindus crossing the rivers...Read all

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Katerina  Chuchalina
Froid's garage

Froid's garage

by Simone Nocetti
Photography & Digital Graphics

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Elena Sorokina
Body of Work

Body of Work

by mita solanky
Installation, Sculpture & Performance
Wall Installation : 'Landscape Walk' (w)360cmx(h)48cm & 'Portrait Walk' (h)240cmx(w)72cm. Materials : Canvas Strips, industrial DS tape. Media: Acrylic paint and pigment 'Body of Work’ uses the c...Read all

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Mélanie Mermod
Sound of Ikebana: Four Season (Spring)

Sound of Ikebana: Four Season (Spring)

by Naooko Tosa
Video & Animation
In her new artwork called “Sound of Ikebana” she gives vibrations to mixed paints and various particles by sound and catches a short time hopping-up movement of these materials by using a high-speed cam...Read all

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N'Goné Fall
Mille mutandine verdi

Mille mutandine verdi

by sulltane tusha
Painting & Drawing

Jury

andrea bruciati
Delicate

Delicate

by Giorgio Vadalà
Photography & Digital Graphics

Jury

Jonathan Lahey  Dronsfield