Maya Ramsay works with historically and politically important sites, employing a variety of processes to capture visual histories that would otherwise be lost or unseen.
My work concerns the corporeal and all the contrasting and conflicting aspects inherent; how bodies are sensual, beautiful, ugly, damaged, idealised, sexual, abject, gendered, delicate.
Vanya Balogh is an independent artist/curator who was Born in Zagreb, Croatia. He studied at Central St Martins and currently lives and works in London and Germany, with studios in Hackney Wick and Berlin.
I work with visual motifs originally associated with Romanticism and Modernism which now appear in forms of commercial display, packaging and spatial design.
“Their physicality is the first and most immediately apparent of their qualities, the paint rich and dense and closely worked, the surfaces subtle and allusive in the variety of their effects, as though weathered and marked by time, bearing a secret history like old stone or wood. ”
With a background of unknown forces and the mysterious chaos of the universe, the world in which we exist has rules imposed to define our society. We ourselves then impose our own boundaries, rules, moralities, guidelines by which we live: to make us safe.