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Zipora Fried, Chère Maman, 2008. Wood table and bottles.

Zipora Fried is best known for her large-scale graphite drawings in which she immerses herself in a creative process that may last months, drawing over a large scroll of paper that can reach up to 28ft long. But she also creates intellectual sculptures and installations from everyday objects such as tables and chairs.[...]

The Red Situation B , felt and sewing materials, 300 x 80 x 15 cm., 2007. Image via La Nube Loca.

Johanna Unzueta’s uses felt as a sculptural material to build structures and objects that bring attention to the history of labor. For her series of “industrial sculptures”, Unzueta was inspired by the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher, constructing factories, mills, water towers and houses.[...]

Christopher Cozier‘s work focuses mostly on Caribbean narratives or small quotidien gestures that can also present political and social questionings. His installation at the 2009 San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial Available at All Leading Stores is not your typical Caribbean inspired work. Instead, it displays a sentiment that carries the weight of politics and globalization. The installation is comprised of assembled cardboard boxes labeled with the word ‘fear’ and placed on a pallet seemingly ready for immediate transportation.[...]

For her most recent solo exhibition titled I Don’t Love You Anymore Susan Collis was inspired by a an old café under renovations just a couple of streets off Galerie Frank Elbaz. The artist was fascinated by the bits of wood, shattered glass and gutted shelving that she found laying around the space.[...]

If beauty can be found in any slight shift in the rhythms of the world, in temporal or functional disruptions, Ariel Schlesinger will be there to capture it – he might even have provoked it himself.[...]

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Marcos Castro utilizes connections to alchemic procedures in order to describe metamorphoses that happen to the foundational myth of the eagle and the snake. The emblematic animals in which ancient Mexico City was founded visit this young artist’s individual mythology.[...]

Realized over the course of a year, Korean artist U-Ram Choe work is rooted in a journey to the American Southwest, where the artist encountered complete darkness for the first time. In this environment Choe observed the Milky Way, unpolluted by the atmospheric haze of artificial light.[...]

Isidro Blasco uses digital photography and humble building materials to assemble three-dimensional images that reconstruct interior spaces, private or domestic and outdoor environments.[...]

Johann König, Berlin presents “Buchtipp 2” – the third solo exhibition of artist Manuel Graf.[...]

Aaron Salabarrías is a multidisciplinary artist that employs photography and painting as a recurring medium in his installations to present viewers with a dissimilar view of the tired ‘island paradise’ cliché. By decontextualizing objects, he transforms them into sublime readymades that create a dialogue between the object and the spectator.[...]