Paul Reid reviving mythology with art

Paul Reid, a Scottish figurative painter born in 1975, has garnered acclaim for his contemporary reinterpretations of ancient myths. A Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee graduate, Reid's work reflects the narrative depth and technical precision reminiscent of old masters like Rembrandt and Caravaggio. His paintings breathe new life into Greek mythology, presenting timeless narratives through a modern lens that resonates with today's cultural context.

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Reid's dedication to classical themes has earned him significant recognition, including inclusion in the New Statesman's "Best of Young British" artists under 35 in 2002. His collaborations with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales further underscore his prominence in art. Exhibitions such as "Mythos" (2019) and "Gods, Heroes and Beasts" (2017) at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh have showcased his ability to bridge the past and present, inviting viewers to engage with classical myths in a way that feels both evocative and thought-provoking.

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Manfredi Caracciolo - Digital Avant-Garde Architect

Manfredi Caracciolo, known as Fredi, is a standout digital artist whose work seamlessly blends bold shapes, striking lighting, and futuristic colour palettes.
His evocative creations often feature small figures set against expansive, shadowy backdrops of what may look like early avantgarde architecture, inviting a sense of introspection and narrative depth.

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Mac Baconai

When prompt engineering is a state of Art.

“I’m Mac, a traveller in architecture and a lover of enduring design. As an architect, I have worked on many projects of different sizes. I run a small architecture studio and continue to consult on various real-life projects.”

— Mac Baconai

Through a Clouded Lens: Three Ways of Seeing

Let’s imagine a gallery that exists only in the mind. Dmitrii Andrianov’s Mental Noise swirls with silver mists, Igor Khlopotov’s photographs blur like distant memories, and Polina Kulbachevskaia’s dancers move in quiet, shadowed rituals. The surfaces shimmers, not unlike that moment when you close your eyes and try to grasp at passing ideas, only to watch them dissolve.

Dmitrii Andrianov: Mental Noise and Golden Traces

Having been raised in both Russia and Israel, Andrianov bears the unique burden of a dual perspective. His background in disaster management manifests in works that attempt to organize chaos — a futile yet necessary pursuit. In "The Value of Hands," golden gloves rest on canvas like artifacts from a civilization that finally learned to honor its invisible workers. They remind us of discarded work gloves we've seen in construction sites, now transformed into something between reliquary and reminder.

Dmitrii Andrianov “The Value of Hands”

In Mental Noise (2023), abstract forms spiral in a silver haze, reflecting the chaotic fragmentation of human consciousness, constantly torn between media overload, misinformation, and the tangled, unsaid thoughts we carry.

OnlyFacts (2024) breaks apart reality, a digital collage of torn newspaper pieces scattered across the canvas — a metaphor for the shattered truths we live with. The work pushes us to reckon with the falsehoods, the gaps, the distorted realities.

Igor Khlopotov: Light Leaks and Memory Traces

Igor Khlopotov’s photography is rooted in personal history, a reflection on the passage of time and the fragile nature of memory. Through the viewfinder of his grandfather's camera, each frame emerges like a half-remembered dream. The machine itself is weathered, imperfect — a mechanical artifact carrying its own history in scratches and worn edges. Light seeps in where it shouldn't, creating aureoles of unexpected luminescence, like memories bleeding into one another.

Khlopotov's photographs exist in that liminal (the word of 2024) space between presence and absence. His lens seeks out the ordinary moments that slip between the cracks of consciousness — a hand resting on a windowsill, the particular angle of afternoon light across a wooden floor. These aren't documents but reveries, each frame an invitation to linger in that uncertain space between what was and what we think we remember.

What started with a child's fascination — "clouds, leaves, sun glare, friends" — has evolved into something more profound. The camera's mechanical heart beats with three temporal pulses: the grandfather's original touch, Khlopotov's present-day vision, and time itself, visible in the aging mechanism's peculiar signatures.

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Polina Kulbachevskaia: Midnight Rituals

In Polina Kulbachevskaya's video "Midnight," nine dancers move through light that shouldn't exist — warm like fire but artificial, cool like moonlight but manufactured. Their bodies form and reform around an absent center, performing ancient gestures with modern anxiety, like priestesses caught between old magic and new world order.

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The glow from above meets the flame-like warmth below, creating a space where time feels suspended. We watch the dancers circle their artificial fire, and somehow it feels both more and less real than genuine flame — not unlike the way Bill Viola's figures move through water in "The Crossing," suspended between elements, between states of being. The work loops endlessly, like a ritual that never quite concludes, never quite reveals its purpose.

The cyclical nature of the piece brings to mind Ana Mendieta's "Silueta" series — where the body becomes both present and absent, both performer and symbol. Kulbachevskaya's dancers, too, seem to exist between presence and absence, their movements shifting between sharp modernist angles and fluid, primordial gestures, as if their bodies are channeling both contemporary fluids and ancestral memory.

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These three artists offer us different ways of seeing what usually escapes notice: the noise in our heads, the gaps in our memories, the rituals we can't quite explain. Through their lens, we learn to practice Lynch's art of sitting still, letting the unconscious surface through the cracks of perception. And so we return to our concrete slope by the river, by the ocean, by the sea, where time pools like water, and the boundary between seeing and remembering grows delightfully thin.

Rifu hata

Looking through Rifu Hata cyber futuristic artworks, the closest insight we could get was the enormous Boris Vallejo with his epic sci-fi art of the early 80s.

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Rifu Hata's works explore the intersection of the fantastical and the existential, presenting heroic and introspective characters. The artist focuses on creating intricate details, especially in textures like armour, fabric, and biological features.

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Skillful fusion of technical mastery and narrative depth establishes Rifu hata’s work as a standout in modern cyber surrealism.

A Provocative Exploration of Dreams and Surveillance

Sofia Malemina’s video art piece Unknown Diary explores the theme of fantasies and illusions in our digital world. Drawing from Baudrillard’s concept of Simulacra and Simulation, the work explores the blurred line between online and offline, real and imagined, legal and illegal, reflecting on the contraries. The sound composition, filled with whispers, indistinct echoes, and the city noise, sharpens the feeling of unease and unknowingness, reinforced by the complex appearing and disappearing visual layer. The video’s continuous loop symbolises the endless, elusive quality of a dream, where start and finish often appear vague. Malemina, who directs and acts in the project, is looking inward, developing the amusement with oneself. She is examining surveillance through the prism of voyeurism by creating a replication and depicting the duality of this act through the lens of the camera. 

Unknown Diary was featured in the December exhibition Dreamscapes (London, UK, 2023), inviting viewers into the vast terrain of human emotion and imagination. Each artist in this exhibition offers a distinct perspective, allowing us to venture into the endless landscapes of the mind. Dreamscapes celebrates the influential role of dreams in reshaping how we perceive the world around us.

Despite launching her career only four years ago, Sofia Malemina approaches complex, provocative ideas with confidence and depth that many artists often avoid. Her themes and methods push against traditional limits, especially as she grapples with subjects like surveillance and voyeurism, using unconventional approaches—topics confronting the uneasy relationship between privacy and self-awareness in the digital age. Malemina’s work uses these topics to question the authenticity of human experience, intentions and connections in a time when digital and physical realities are deeply intertwined.

This unflinching engagement with unsettling subjects positions Unknown Diary as more than an observation. It becomes a commentary on the fragmented self in a world where technology increasingly shapes identity. By pushing these frames forward, Malemina invites viewers to confront unconscious, uncomfortable truths about how our inner and outer worlds are curated, edited, observed, and redefined in today’s hyper-connected society. This bold thematic ambition reveals her willingness to dissect and reinterpret contemporary experience, marking her as a vital voice with a unique perspective within modern video art.

OFFF 2024 Campaign

Legendary OFFF festival is planned for three days in Barcelona on April 4, 2024.

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Introducing the OFFF 2024 creative campaign teaser: LIFFFE/FFFORMS. The concept unveils an abstract family of living forms derived from the feelings and emotions we share in our everyday lives as creative people.

The vision of the OFFF 2024 campaign has been brought to life by a talented global team: the visionary minds at ManvsMachine, responsible for the concept & creative execution, and Resonate, who masterfully shaped the sound design.

Dandelight by Studio DRIFT

Dandelight embodies a graceful blend of art, nature, and innovation within our renowned 'Fragile Future' series. Each Dandelight is meticulously crafted using real dandelions handpicked during the annual DRIFT Spring Harvest, with every single seed delicately affixed to an LED.

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This year's special edition is centred around a promising future, highlighting the potential of seeds and soil as they collaborate to foster fertility. DRIFT aimed for a sense of weightlessness through natural materials like sand and jute, while the base, cast in translucent white resin, encases dandelion seeds.

For a healthy new generation, we need to get the basics right! "This double dandelion version reflects a beacon of hope embodied in the promise of new life." shares artist Lonneke Gordijn, who is expecting her first child.

Return to Eden by Chelsea Jones

"Return to Eden" by artist Chelsea Jones invites viewers on a visual journey into a world where peace emerges amidst chaos. It reflects the artist's quest for sanctuary, using vivid colours and expressive brushwork.

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The collection we love captures fleeting moments when the world fades away, leaving behind a self-fashioned sanctuary – a transient space where reality feels chilled and tranquillity fills the air. It intimately portrays the search for and cherishing of serene escapes within a turbulent existence. The collection’s warmth and inviting tone encourage each observer to uncover their transient paradise within.

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Spin ceramics by Robert Dawson

Robert Dawson’s ceramic art blurs the lines between tradition and innovation, motion and permanence, and challenges conventional perceptions of craftsmanship.

Dawson's creation, Spin, beautifully encapsulates the essence of motion blur, reminiscent of the technique used in animated movies. Just as motion blur aids in creating fluidity in film sequences, Dawson's manipulation of glaze and design captures a fleeting moment, freezing it in time while alluding to movement. The Blue Willow pottery design combines fixedness and the illusion of movement, showcasing the artist’s skill.

The plates symbolise clay’s history and transformation. Dawson cleverly incorporates circularity, a fundamental principle in pottery, by showcasing the spinning process as a visible final stage in decoration. This extends the traditional concept of pottery time, inviting viewers to contemplate the craft’s evolution.

His plates honour and represent ceramic heritage while pushing boundaries..

Ballpoint pen art by Adewale Mayowa

Self-taught ballpoint pen artist and conceptual self portrait photographer Adewale Mayowa shares amazing talent and skills through the NFT journey

Kitasavi

Artist and designer Kitasavi casually creates new worlds where chaos is the only order

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The Last Confirmation

Established in 2019 the last confirmation collab series featuring crypto art OGs (Official Greates) Norman Harman x Robness v2, one of the longest cryptoart collaborations in the world

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About the artists

ROBNESS V2
LA's finest is a multi-faceted crypto artist who has taken part in almost every significant event this movement has made since it's earliest inception. Took part in the RarePepe trading collective which spawned the early proof of concept for the advent of what is now known as 'NFT.' Created the Controversial '64

Norman Harman
Harman is one of Scotland's leading digital artists specialising in painting - His work has been exhibited across the UK and Europe and he is a member of art collective Ltd Ink Corporation - Harman combines analogue, generative and digital painting processes, to achieve a Baconian grotesqueness in a POST-COVID, consumer driven world

Wavism by Diango Hernandez

Cuban artist founder of the self-proclaimed Wavism, Diango Hernandez lives and works in Düsseldorf. His work is the subject of many solo and group exhibitions happening around the world since 1995

Matteo Ingrao Sculpture

Matteo is a creator of hirsute and peculiar human-like sculptures that falls out of uncanny valley. He draws inspiration from man’s wild, natural, and primitive origins, how isolation affects form, and musings on alternate human evolution and deformation (hypertrichosis syndrome, for instance, is a recurring theme in his work). His organic and realistic sculptures act to capture specific points in time, encapsulating specific glimpses of the human form and so preserving them in time and space.

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He provides new perspectives on the human body, aiming to challenge his audience, provoking discourse through the creation of contradictory feelings: his works induce an ambivalent desire to touch while simultaneously stirring discomfort and aversion.

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Bottling Sunshine

Jasmyn is a Michigan based POC artist who spends their days playing games, watching anime, and showering their pup with love.

Art of Daan Noppen

Daan Noppen is an artist that explores various media like drawing, painting, film, photography and sculpture. His work invokes the irrational and engages the viewer into experiencing numinous feelings. The context of his artwork creates an urgency for raison d’être. The artist explores elements of divinity, alchemy, mysticism and rituals.

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Art of Selva Aparicio

Selva Aparicio is an interdisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, and performance to create artwork that digs deeper into ideas of memory, death, intimacy and mourning.

“Childhood Memories” (2017), hand-carved rug into utility oak wood floor

“Velo de luto (Mourning veil)” (2020), magicicada wings, sewn with hair, 32 x 47 x 2 inches

“Hysteria” (2020), thorn branches woven with ligature and Hamilton obstetric table from 1931, 9 x 4 x 6 feet

Sweet Dreams by Les Garçons

Creative studio from Montreal shared a series of design created for the local cookie shop Le Biscuitery.

Santi Zoraidez – New Normality Reel

Santi Zoraidez shared a collection of his best 3D work done in 2020

“It has been a difficult year for all of us. A year full of complications, fears, anxiety and frustration. I feel like a landmark year, an opportunity to start over, grow and be better. Personally, I have to say that even with everything that was happening around me I have been able to do great things and I am grateful for that. Things that seemed difficult to achieve at the beginning of the year. That’s why I wanted to make this edit with a selection of the best work I have been doing during the last years. As a full stop and move to the next step from here. I’ve lost 20kg and am running almost every day on the beach in Barcelona, the city I’ve dreamed of living in for a long time. It feels great how ideas come to mind again as I do it. ”

— Santi Zoraidez

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