“I think about what will change human sensibility in the future.” Kyoto-based artist, Kohei Nawa believes in creating an experience rather than making sculptures; to realize his vision, Nawa’s ‘Foam’ exhibition consists of a breathtaking, large-scale installation of immersive cloud-like foam using a mixture of detergent, glycerin and water. At once dreamlike, ephemeral, and ever-changing, the exhibition is not […]

It’s hard to ignore the childlike quality that Paris-based self-taught designer, Simon Porte Jacquemus, brings to the Parisian fashion scene. His eponymous label, Jacquemus, has a strong social media presence, particularly on Instagram, where the designer shares his whimsical musings in a triptych format. His playful approach of shapes and sizes — one-legged pants, tuxedo shirts that form […]

Tangible Media Group of MIT Media Lab has built a system with ‘pin-based shape displays’ to successfully animate inanimate objects — blocks, to start with. The blocks can be rotated, stacked and catapulted in order to construct or deconstruct structures. They experimented with a variety of blocks, ranging from the average, normal block, to magnetic […]

What is art? Can it be translated and distilled down into mere numbers and a perfect combination of elements, as the Golden Ratio tries to explain? Artist Joanie Lemercier takes the notion of art as math and science one step further by creating 1,000 landscapes out of thousands of uniformly-sized black dots using complex video game […]

Not many sports can boast an equal playing field between men or women, but table tennis comes close. One of Singapore’s most feted sports, it requires a minimum of two players, constituting a form of dialogue between the players on opposite sides. In this work by Singapore-based artist Lee Wen, the structure and rules of table […]

Using vintage postcards, Italian artist Caterina Rossato creates 3-D collages with X-Acto knifes by cutting up layers of cards and reassembling them. It’s interesting that she chooses to use postcards, which often enable us to live vicariously through our friends and family who are traveling abroad. The postcard is fast becoming a dying method of […]