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Shan Hua Solo Show-Loquat Tendons Severed
2025/11/1 Text by Ese Onojeruo Sarabande Foundation is currently presenting Shan Hua: Loquat Tendons Served . Shan Hua’s practice occupies the intersection of literature, digital media, and installation, positioning narrative as a site of rupture and reassembly, where fragments of text, memory, and technology converge to explore the conditions of existence. In this exhibition, A Loquat Tendon Severed , Hua investigates perspectives at the margins, including historically silen


Yoshitomo Nara: A Journey Through Rebellious Innocence at Hayward Gallery
By NOCTURA Magazine 09/07/2025 From the moment you step into the Hayward Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara’s world of vast-eyed, scowling figures...


Speculative Archaeologies -Digital in Jojo Zan’s The Digital Amber
Date: 01/07/2025 Writer: Ben Vickers London, UK Jojo Zan, a London-based digital fashion artist and designer trained at the Royal College...


Glimpses of the Guest Room
25/06/2025 Writer: Ben Vickers Exhibition Dates: June 20, 2025 – June 23, 2025 Location: Adelaide Road, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 3QE...


Boris Mikhailov: Beauty in Ruin
14/09/2024 By NOCTURA Magazine There is nothing clean in a Boris Mikhailov photograph. There are no illusions, no romantic distance, no...


Simon Barker: Through the Looking Glass of Rebellion
24/05/2024 By NOCTURA Magazine Before the era of Instagram filters and digital ephemerality, there was Simon Barker —better known as Six...


London Gallery Weekend 2025: A City in Multiples
07/06/2025 By NOCTURA Magazine London is not one art scene—it’s many. And nowhere is that more visible than during London Gallery Weekend...


Nick Waplington: Chaos, Class, and the Everyday Epic
02/03/2024 By NOCTURA Magazine Nick Waplington doesn’t romanticize the real—he confronts it, often uncomfortably, with empathy and grit....


The Body as Ornament: An Interview with YVMIN
28/05/2025 By NOCTURA Magazine In a soft-lit studio tucked in Beijing, the designers behind YVMIN—Yutong Wen and Min Li—speak about...


Liminal Glamour: Dressing in the In-Between
05/03/2025 By NOCTURA Magazine We live in the age of transition. Nothing is quite fixed: gender, geography, identity, emotion. Everything...


Grace Ling: Sculpting Seduction in the Age of Digital Fashion
12/11/2024 by NOCTURA Magazine Singapore-born, New York-based designer Grace Ling is redefining what sensuality looks like in the...


Torishéju Dumi: Reclaiming Power Through Form and Folklore
19/08/2025 by NOCTURA Magazine London’s fashion scene has a new force: Torishéju Dumi , a British-Nigerian-Brazilian designer whose work...


Outer Realms: An Interview with Kay Kwok
04/04/2024 By NOCTURA Magazine Long before Beyoncé wore his 3D-printed chrome ensemble on the Renaissance tour, Kay Kwok was already...


Fredrik Tjærandsen: Inflated Realities and the Poetics of Pressure
09/02/2024 by NOCTURA Magazine When Fredrik Tjærandsen’s graduate collection went viral in 2019—featuring models encased in giant,...


Tender Anarchy: A Conversation with Vaquera
15/11/2023 Interview by NOCTURA Magazine Since its inception, Vaquera has blurred the line between fashion, costume, and cultural...


D’heygere: The Art of Accessory as Everyday Subversion
05/06/2023 Writer:Ben Vickers In an industry often obsessed with glamour and spectacle, D’heygere offers a quieter, more subversive...


Magliano: Dressing the Outsider with Tender Defiance
21/02/2023 Writer: Ben Vickers In the heart of Bologna—not Milan, not Paris—rises a voice in menswear that is quiet, queer, and powerful....


Michelle Williams Gamaker: Recasting History in Strange Evidence
02/06/2025 In her latest exhibition, Strange Evidence , British–Sri Lankan artist Michelle Williams Gamaker continues her powerful...


Interview: Li Hanwei on Fiction, Faith, and the Fragility of Images
24/05/2025 by NOCTURA Magazine NOCTURA: Your work often resembles advertisements from an alternate future. Why do you use commercial...


Gaëlle Choisne: Sculpting the Debris of Empire, Dreaming Decolonial Futures
01/04/2025 Writer: John Tain Gaëlle Choisne is a French-Haitian visual artist whose multifaceted practice spans sculpture, installation,...
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