Would the village animals love to partake in folklore festivities they've seen with their human counterparts? Mária Gloza's paintings have the answer.
#Heritage
Meet SWARM Mag’s first quarterly thematic cycle of articles for the 2020 season. HERITAGE theme will run from February until 10th May.
Corrupted natural structures are essential for the works of fashion designer Alexandru Floarea who replicates them in elaborate and dramatic masks, shoes, and garments.
How is the porn industry involved in speeding up the evolution of haptic technologies? How close are we to perfectly synthesizing our senses?
Half-forgotten dreams of apparitions and lives past – that's the world visual artist Barbora Šemberová lays out before our eyes in her vibrant illustrations of dry and oil pastel, and acrylic liner on paper.
Polish artist Iwona Ogrodzka offers a 2019 video vignette into the life of hers and her grandma's village, full of spring, gardening, gatherings and flashlight trips after dark, and uses it as a backdrop for the story of brave Maria who joined a rebellion.
Fashion designer Linda Havrlíková on how wool and its productions eats up the land even though it's no longer worn by the sheep.
Lithuanian artist Rasa Vilcinskaite creates ornate headpieces, reminiscent of an array of extraterrestrial flora taking root in your scalp, which utilize basic beading techniques to invent intricate patterns.
From grain to linen, the creators of the Ukraine-based Para Platform create handmade futuristic garments from organic materials with an unwavering belief that the respect for and the worship of Nature and her creations will, again, come into mainstream fashion.
Dalibor Knapp's typographically and conceptually unique book painstakingly catalogues the echoes of colonial power structures in contemporary digital environment.
A voluminous photographic collection by Václav Jirásek documents the workers, interiors and monumentality of decaying, perishing and abandoned Czech and Moravian metallurgic works.
Hungarian artist Gergö Bánkuti narrates disappearing folk culture and corrupted social bonds through carving religious symbols and imagery into potatoes.
A derelict seaside fortress is ruled by six sorceresses in an occult sisterhood vision of fashion designer Linda Kokkonen and filmmaker Laura Martínova.
An essay on the boundaries and etymology of domestic space written by Jonas Vansteenkiste.
Belarus meets Balenciaga in an eerie solid-line series of illustrations by Margarita Senkova.
A keen eye of Czech artist Štěpánka Sigmundová documents the ever-changing world around her through long-term, evolving photographic series.
Creating under the moniker of Alice Hualice, the artist mirrors the land, its history and scarce inhabitants in mesmerizing, intentionally under-elaborate textile objects.
Eastern Slovak traditions meet political commentary – in fire.
Science fiction, future humanity and Moravian folklore meet in an iridescent outer space cave. No, it's not the start of a joke.
An introduction to and a breakdown of SWARM Mag's first thematic cycle of articles of 2020 – HERITAGE – and what can you expect from it. HERITAGE will run until May.
