Der rätselhafte Jüngling
Artist Danh Vo reflects on the enigmatic "Ephebe of Mozia," an ancient Greek statue housed at the Museo Giuseppe Whitaker on the island of Mozia off Sicily's west coast. Vo describes the sculpture as a work of timeless beauty, marked by fractures, mysteries, and surprising sensuality, and recounts the difficulty of reaching the remote museum location.
Silvana Trevale recounts the story behind her photograph of two Venezuelan brothers on a beach in Playa Medina, taken in 2018. The image, captured on a Mamiya camera during a goodbye trip with friends who were about to leave the country, shows the boys returning from a fishing trip with their father. Trevale, who left Venezuela in the mid-2010s to study at Huddersfield University, describes the surreal setting of a beach with Japanese forest grass and vultures, and how the photograph became the starting point for her decade-long project "Venezuelan Youth."
Artsy Editorial profiles five contemporary artists from the Maghreb region who draw inspiration from Moroccan rugs and North African weaving traditions. The article highlights how these artists transform the loom-based craft—historically dismissed as "womanly craft" by academia and the avant-garde—into a contemporary art form that honors and updates longstanding weaving practices. Each artist uses the grammar of signs, stitches, rhythm, color, and designs inherent to North African textiles to articulate narratives and philosophies.