Sofia Taipa
Portuguese visual artist Sofia Taipa, based in London, creates computational sculptures and installations that blend algorithmic systems with physical media. Her 2023 work Evanescence captures visitors’ facial profiles and carves them into a rotating clay cylinder, while the 2024 installation Being Within animates a silicone membrane to reshape the viewer’s relationship to space. In Sui generis, she fine‑tunes a language model to generate a “personalized” dictionary, exposing bias and the illusion of neutral AI. Taipa’s practice interrogates identity, embodiment, and the mutable boundaries between human and machine.
Margaux Valengin: A World of Part-Object Phantasies
Margaux Valengin’s latest show, "A World of Part-Object Phantasies," opens at Galerie PACT and foregrounds fragmented human figures paired with sentinel animals. The work draws on Melanie Klein’s "part‑object" theory, rendering bodies as split, fetishized fragments while animals retain full...
A Conversation with Olga Shishko
Digital art, rooted in decades of experimentation from AARON to AI‑generated imagery, has finally entered mainstream visibility as tools become ubiquitous and audiences screen‑native. Curator Olga Shishko explains how CIFRA moves beyond a simple hosting platform by creating contextual curatorial...
Qi Liu
Qi Liu, a Los Angeles‑based multidisciplinary artist, blends photography, installation, and art direction to interrogate gender, labor and cultural memory. Her 2021 series *The Women in the Fish Market* foregrounds female vendors in Hainan, while *Blind Spot* (2022) uses a...