In september 2011 is Lynn Alleva Lilley met haar man en twee kinderen naar Amman in Jordanië verhuisd. Ver weg van haar geboorteland en van haar vader, die op dat moment ziek was, probeerde ze een thuis te maken voor haar gezin in deze onbekende stad. Ze gebruikte fotografie om dit, voor haar vreemde land, vertrouwd te maken. Gedurende drie jaar heeft ze het Jordaanse volk, Syrische en Iraakse vluchtelingen, dieren in private dierentuinen of boerderijen, de vogeltrek en landschappen gefotogr...

Part 1: All doubt as to the existence of arsenic eating is removed by the present experiments.

Part 2: On the historical encounter with arsenic-containing minerals in general and the practice of arsenic eating in Styria in particular.

April 12, 2018: Day Zero, the day that the whole city of Cape Town would run out of water. The countdown to Day Zero was supposed to be a countdown to chaos. Zindzi Zwietering (NL) spent two months in the city to document the crisis.

Bron reflects on South Africa’s water crisis and questions how urban citizens relate to a changing earth. How can we as a society really comprehend the significance of the situation as long as there is still water flowing from our taps? Bron investigates the hu...

If money cannot buy happiness, what drives people to participate in a lottery? And what effect does (almost) winning have on someone’s life, or that of the people around them? Cécile Hupin and Katherine Longly set out to compare dreams with reality by giving a voice to those who won or came close to winning a jackpot, for better or for worse. Their stories form a reflection of our society, our aspirations, our beliefs, and our fraught relationship with money. All of the personal accounts t...

In Ontwerpen is geen kunst stelt designmanager, Roel Stavorinus dat veel ontwerpers kansen laten liggen. Terwijl zij juist met hun competenties van grote toegevoegde waarde zijn voor organisaties. Stavorinus roept ontwerpers op zich beter te verdiepen in hun opdrachtgevers en hun dienstverlening in te richten als maatwerk. Uit ervaring van de auteur blijkt dat ontwerpers vooral geneigd zijn om aan het eindresultaat te denken.

Ontwerpers die een brug weten te slaan tussen management en ontwerp,...

‘Some of You Killed Luisa’ is Valeria Cherchi’s attempt to decode the complex structure of the phenomenon of widespread kidnappings that occurred in her homeland, the island of Sardinia, between the 1960s and 1990s. During that time, almost 200 people were kidnapped and held for ransom. But how does one tell a story bound by uncertainty? How do we talk about histories that are only partially concluded? Cherchi is one of the few artists to deal with this dark chapter of Sardinian history...

During her contemplative walks, Lynn Alleva Lilley (US) began to observe and photograph the many small details in the woods around Sligo Creek. The shimmering winter light, the tiny curling tendrils of a climber, the dry grasses in winter, the fresh green in spring. In her silent movement, she also met the deer, the birds, the cicada, the snake, the turtle and many more characters that inhabit this piece of land along the creek. Lilley manages to arouse what is not directly perceptible to the...

The human and the horse share a long history together. At first horses were working animals, serving as a means of transport in agriculture and in war. Nowadays, horses are domestic pets with a moral status: used for recreation, in competitions, and for medical therapy. In 1948 the grandfather of Peeters began a business in what many now consider to be taboo: horse meat. At that time, people were poor, recovering from World War II, and horse meat, being a high quality product for an affordabl...

Hades was a powerful god in classical Greek mythology. His ‘Helmet of Darkness’ enabled him and the other gods to be invisible during their sometimes-ambiguous quests. Therefore, the helmet became proverbial for those who conceal their true nature... Digital platforms such as Uber, Amazon, Tinder and Airbnb, with their invisible Hades-esque algorithms, have drastically changed social structures and human behaviour — and not always for the better. They have given a completely new mea...

Flisvos is a Greek word meaning “the soft sound of a small wave gently hitting the shore”. When visiting the Greek island of Corfu in the winter of 2015, Mergaerts (BE) noticed that, in spite of the cold, many people were swimming at various places along the shoreline. She was impressed that the bathers — all adults, some of them retired — seemed to find peace in the Ionian sea. During the following years, Mergaerts learned more and more about the lives of the winter swimmers....