Six Pillars Broadcast – Artist Shubha Taparia at Mayfair Art Weekend

As part of the Mayfair Art Weekend (28 June – 30 June 2019) artist Shubha Taparia presents a collection of photographs Spirit in the Inanimate looking at ephemerality. The series explores new details and elements from Taparia’s new large-scale installation made with construction materials Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape in her London studio. At Prahlad … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Veeranganakumari (Vee) Solanki

Veeranganakumari (Vee) Solanki is an independent curator and researcher from India, whose work involves curating young contemporary South-Asian artists. Visiting London as a resident at the Delfina Foundation and the Brooks Curatorial Research Fellow at the Tate Modern, she begins a 6 month cataloguing project mapping and researching UK based South-Asian artists who work with … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Photo London I

This week Somerset House is a live with world class photography as galleries from all over the globe display their best works at Photo London. We talk specifically to South African artist Kyle Weeks, showing at Officine Del Immagine in Milan, about the manifold stories behind his singular shots, in which Namibian youth take their … Continue reading →

Remembering A Self Taught Afghani Photographer – Shah Marai

  Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer Shah Marai, aged 41, was murdered in a  suicide attack, orchestrated by the radical Islamist group the Taliban. this week in Kabul. Marai was one of nine journalists and 25 people, killed in dual bomb blasts in the capital of Afghanistan, his home country. “This year’s bloody Taliban spring offensive … Continue reading →

What Photos Don’t Say: Iran

Where normally foreign travel photo pieces about Iran present photos that seek to reinforce our ideas of what Iran ‘should’ look like, this set taken and, clearly heavily edited, for Vice Germany seem to dodge that, and instead present a much fuller, and welcome banal side of life in Iran in pictures. The images selected … Continue reading →

New Six Pillars Podcast – The Culturist

On this week’s Six Pillars an interview with Emirati Hind Mezaina, an established artist and blogger in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, plus field recordings taken from a visa run to the nearby Sultanate of Oman, from Dubai, a round trip made in 4 hours. Hind, who is of part-Egyptian descent has been writing under … Continue reading →

This Week’s Six Pillars – The Culturist, Dubai

On this week’s Six Pillars an audio collage of field recordings taken from a visa run to the very nearby Sultanate of Oman from Dubai, a round trip made in 4 hours. Our main feature is an interview with Emirati Hind Mezaina, an established artist and blogger in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates of … Continue reading →