EPRIS Journal

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Where Wisdom Takes Form: Inside the New CCA Tashkent: In a transformed 1912 power station, HIKMAH asks whether clay, brick, thread and collective use can give Central Asia’s newest art instituti
Who Needs a Museum? The Urban Design of Invitation: A museum does not find its public at the ticket desk. It finds–or loses–it through transport, pavements, thresholds and the civic life of th
Sandra Kantanen: Beyond the Lens of Traditional Photography: Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen approaches photography as a gateway to the imagined, rather than a tool for capturing objective reality. Her
Emily Kraus: Rhythm of the Moment: Inside the Canvas Cube, Emily Kraus Paints the Rhythm of the Present Moment
Against the Right Angle: Five buildings that talked their way out of the grid – and the software, the metal, the money and the sheer nerve it took to build them.
Polish Design: Woven From Memory: How does the sensitivity of Polish designers towards cultural heritage shape the design scene
Tadao Ando: Architecture beneath the tangible
Art that makes you smile: I believe that when you introduce playful objects into an environment, it expands the boundaries of the mind. It gives you non-verbal permis
Five Rooms, One Signature: A dalmatian dot, a slab of burl, three portraits of the same painted dog, and one small cone that keeps reappearing where you least expect i
The Sacred Spring: A Portrait of the Vienna Secession: In 1897 a handful of Viennese artists walked out on the establishment, raised a white temple crowned with a dome of gilded leaves, and decla
The Heart of EPRIS: Maria Is Now a Bachelor of Architecture: On July 7th, Mariia Ivanova, EPRIS's editor-in-chief, officially became a Bachelor of Architecture. To mark the day – a heart built from the
The Threshold of Time: Door restoration is an act of archaeological tenderness. From the carved portals of Tbilisi to Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise – a journey thro
Home Away From Home: A pied-à-terre always catches the irreplaceable light in your eyes, but it can also spark them.
Rooms That Watch You Back: Glass once promised freedom, honesty and light. Then the walls learned to collect data. An essay on transparent architecture, controlled vis
In Conversation with Chora Practice: Founders of a Lisbon-based decor studio on the art of listening to your inner self, importance of resilience and favorite places in the city
Where We Meet Ourselves - interview with Keisuke Azuma: Artist Keisuke Azuma on washing paint back off the canvas, the Japanese aesthetics of shadow and emptiness behind his work, and why art has
Museo Nivola: A Museum, a Village and the Memory They Share: Costantino Nivola left a Sardinian village of masons for New York, worked with Le Corbusier, Sert and Saarinen, and never stopped coming bac
Souv: The Souvenir That Doesn't Forget: Matej Petrić and Antonio Šeparović on turning an ordinary fridge magnet into the entrance to a traveler's own photos, why nobody actually wa
Nick Dahlen - A Contemporary Take on Modernism: An artist who transforms the beauty of everyday life into striking illustrations within his own visual world.
Soft Modernism: Bryn and Ellefsen's Physics Building at Blindern: They won the competition with a Roman temple, went to look at what Europe was building, and came home to strip their own drawing bare. What
Where the Warmth Lives: How Two Traditions Measured the Turn from Summer to Autumn: Autumn does not make the light warmer. Measured region by region, two canvases of the same field show the sky staying where it was while the
The Picture Is Finished Before the Shutter - interview with Roland M Schwerdtfeger: Architectural photographer Roland M Schwerdtfeger on planning a picture until it is finished before the camera comes up, the single coloured
Neobarocco: Five Buildings That Confess What They Want You to Believe: No seventeenth-century architect ever had to build a case for absolute power. The power was already absolute, and the architecture only had
Built to a Score: Three Buildings Where Music Wrote the Architecture: Most buildings host music: a stage, walls, a program, good acoustics. A handful of buildings do something stranger, and let a piece of music
The Seam That Isn't There: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate has no front, no seam and, its maker insists, no fixed subject beyond the skyline and the crowd currently caught i
Abbie Downey: Collected, Not Coordinated: The founder of Feather&Fossil on visual rhythm, the difference between layered and chaotic, and why a home should read as continued rather t
Eighteen Inches of Sky: The Interiors of the World Trade Center: Twenty five years on, the towers are remembered as a silhouette. Inside they were three buildings stacked on each other, a lobby seventy fou
Where the Souls Become Cranes: Nataliia Maloh, painter and curator, on her anniversary exhibition at ArtLab, the space she built from nothing on the shore of Lake Maggiore
Architecture That Listens: How multi-layered context shapes identity across three projects by US Architecture Studio, from a steppe town, through rolling hills, to a s
Nothing Fallow About It: The Harvest Behind France's Novels and Italy's Golden Lion: A Roman mosaic already knew what September was for. Two thousand years later France still times its book industry to it, and Italy still tim
Diana Aleshchenko: Safety Comes From Openness: A new architecture graduate on a rehabilitation centre without right angles, a student campus built for wartime, and a courtyard that keeps
Oksana Dzhuman: A Self-Portrait in 5,500 Sticks: The Valencia-based artist on turning used tobacco sticks into mosaic portraits, painting each one by hand, and showing the work to the publi
A Cow Made of Broken Tile: A family workshop on turning mosaic, a material invented never to move, into furniture that ships across oceans, and why a table with a cow
PARK3020: A Sculpture Park Dated a Thousand Years Ahead: Outside Lviv, in open fields near the village of Strilky, Ukraine's first public park of contemporary sculpture gives young artists a place
The River Valencia Turned Into a Park: In 1957 the Turia drowned Valencia. The city moved the river out, planned motorways for the empty bed, and was talked out of them by its own
Inside the Victoria Museum: Ukraine's first museum of costume, founded in a restored Kyiv mansion in 2017: over 1,500 objects across seven rooms, corseted silk gowns, a
Two Ways of Looking at the Same Building - interview with Manuel Heywinkel: Architect and photographer Manuel Heywinkel on photographing a building he spent years supervising into existence, why colour and black-and-
The Red Thread: Veronika Chernienko on Painting What Words Can't Reach: Ukrainian painter Veronika Chernienko, trained at the Kyiv academy and based on Cyprus since 2014, on why she calls herself a colourist befo
Eight Years to a Home: Olha Wood on Building Across Distance, Pandemic and War: Interior architect Olha Wood works between Kyiv, Denmark and the UK, often without standing in the rooms she shapes. She talks about the Kyi
The Doors Are Opening: EPRIS Museum and Architectura, This October: Every civilisation has announced itself through a door. This October EPRIS Journal opens two: EPRIS Museum, a museum without walls that neve
In Praise of Shadow: Colour and Light in Clair-obscur at the Bourse de Commerce: For six months the most luminous building in Paris agreed to go dark. A work-by-work reading of Clair-obscur at the Bourse de Commerce, and
The Forms That Refuse a Name: Richard Pearson on Painting Other Worlds: Somerset painter Richard Pearson on returning to art after Covid, learning to question what a painting is for, building oil over acrylic, an
The World Is Not What It Says: Magritte’s Afterlife at Gagosian London: At Gagosian London, René Magritte is placed beside more than forty artists to test not who copied his motifs, but who inherited his deeper p
Where Darkness Begins to Listen: Roy DeCarava in Los Angeles: At David Zwirner Los Angeles, more than 130 photographs from Roy DeCarava’s the sound i saw turn jazz, labor and street life into a score ma
The Ocean Is Not Blue: Torkwase Dyson and the Politics of Abstraction: In Seeing in Blue, Torkwase Dyson asks whether painting can hold the ocean as physics, memory, extraction and freedom at once–and whether ab
The Ordinary Life Is Not a Small Subject: Louis Fratino and the Painting of Intimacy: In Prose, Louis Fratino paints lovers, relatives, baths, gardens and subway cars–and asks why an ordinary queer life, given the scale of his
The Painting Is Still Wet: Emma McIntyre and Art That Refuses to Finish: Emma McIntyre paints with rust, oxidised copper, bone black, gravity and time–making works that continue to change after the artist has stop
The Building Wears Its Forces: Inside the Radical Structure of Powerhouse Parramatta: Powerhouse Parramatta puts a three-layer steel lattice outside the museum so that its vast rooms can remain almost impossibly free–a buildin
Who Owns the Hours? Audemars Piguet and the Art of Manufacturing Time: A watch measures seconds, but a luxury brand manufactures something larger: authorship, scarcity and cultural time. Inside Audemars Piguet’s
Cathy de Monchaux: The Poise of Wounds: At the Palais de Tokyo, Cathy de Monchaux turned metal, velvet, dust and fragile armatures into a sculptural language of desire, danger and
How to Stand in an Unstable World: Mona Hatoum at Fondazione Prada: Three rooms, more than thirty thousand glass spheres and a metal tower that repeatedly loses its balance: Mona Hatoum turns sculpture into a
A Little More Room for Life: On World Architecture Day, a small love letter to the people and places that make us feel at home. With warmth, from the EPRIS editorial tea
The Second Exposure: What Photography Does to Architecture, Sculpture and Painting: From the measured neutrality of architectural typologies to Medardo Rosso’s dissolving sculpture and Ann Hamilton’s tactile scans, the camer
The Luxury of What Is Not There: Winnie Tam of 28 a.m.: The founder of 28 a.m. on touch and temperature, the intelligence of shadow, and why a calm room begins with restraint rather than appearanc
What a Room Remembers: Interiors After the Image: From a reused museum apartment in Helsinki to a red-lit SoHo bar and a timber office beneath the Dutch heath, six projects reveal why the se
Gayane Arushanian: Home Is Something You Carry: A Ukrainian artist of Armenian descent, now between Miami and Kyiv, on balance that is earned rather than given, a series that began as a pa
Nothing but Everything: Yaroslav Seleznev on Abstraction Without a Name: Painter Yaroslav Seleznev on moving from academic realism to abstraction, why a title can get in the way, where minimalism turns into emptin
Nicolas Delarre: The Structure Was Already There: Self-taught Lille photographer Nicolas Delarre on “photographisme”, why the golden ratio matters to him as poetry more than as science, refu

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