RUYA MAPS

We explore the pressing issues of today through global, contemporary art. Our thematic approach looks to the shared human experience and to artists exploring it

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🚨Open Call for Artists🚨

We would like to hear from established and emerging artists who are based in, or are from, Lima, Peru. We will be awarding micro-commissions for the second installment of ‘Creative Cities.’ Details are in the link in our bio
#opencall #paidopportunity

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On this first anniversary of the Beirut explosions we share images taken by the artist Majd Abdel Hamid of the city today. As with many Lebanese citizens, we do not remember the events of a year ago, because we did not forget them.
#August4 #BeirutBlast #TalkaboutLebanon #Beirut

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To mark #WorldRefugeeDay we asked Bosnian artist @Lana_Cmajcanin to select some of her work that reflects on refugees.

🚢You can also watch the video work 'A Change is Gonna Come II' through the link in our bio, pw ACIGC

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To mark #WomensHistoryMonth 2021 RUYA MAPS has been sharing some of our favourite women artists from around the world, such as Zarina Bhimji, Teresa Margolles, and Pinaree Sanpitak🌏

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🧎‍♂️In the #microcommission 'Cheimadia,' Alkmini Gkousiari proposes a piece of work that can be worn just as the artist carries Athens with her from afar. The sculpture and performance were inspired by an ancient Greek perfume bottle in the form of a kneeling athlete.

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📬‘Carte Postale' by Melina Fakitsa Mosland is a collage that explores Athens' contradictory architecture against an ironically romanticised colour palette. This is a #microcommission for the Spirit issue of the Creative Cities journal.

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👁️'Moirai' familiarizes the viewer with the ancient Greek myth of the Moirai (‘the Fates’) who control the thread of life, and contrast with tyche (‘chance’).
This embroidered eye is a #microcommission by Iliodora Margellos in response to our 'Spirit' theme which explores Athens

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RUYA MAPS is pleased to share the finalists in our open call: Alkmini Gkousiari, Iliodora Margellos and Melina Fakitsa Mosland. Congratulations to the artists!

They have each been awarded micro-commissions to create new work in response to their relationship with #Athens.

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Whether an established artist or fresh out of art school, an Athens native or a recent resident, each of the artists included here has a relationship with the city that connects with the unique spirit of Athens.

See the runners up to our #opencall here: https://t.co/cy3ynTRbtT

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For our #Athens issue, RUYA MAPS Selects introduces work by some of the most interesting contemporary Greek artists. Drawing on our theme ‘Spirit,’ the series shown here take mysticism, historic residences, mourning rituals, and myth as their subjects.

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🚨PAID Micro-Commissions🚨
Are you an artist based in, or from, Athens? Submit your portfolio and a statement on your relationship with the city for a chance to be awarded a micro-commission.

#greekart #athens #contemporaryart
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#ArtRelief4Beirut is selling art on Instagram with funds going to trusted #Lebanonrelief efforts.
This recently sold work, Ahmad Beydoun’s Wheat Dissolution, uses machine learning to compile images of the grain siloes that were the only structures left standing in Beirut’s port.

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For the Love of Beirut gathers works by over 60 photographers in support of the city after the explosions on August 4th.

Sales end this evening, and include works by Myriam Boulos, Omar Sfeir, and Rena Effendi amongst others.

#talkaboutlebanon #lebanonblasts #beirutfundraiser

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#Classof2020 finalist✨
Hear about the experience of #emergingartist Sarah Larby under lockdown as she talks about her mum’s sewing machine, reading Laura White’s blog, and how working without walls in her garden-cum-studio has impacted her art.

https://t.co/tAZuAEbanS

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This is the last piece Lidia was working on before lockdown, 'The Self.' She continued this project about self-discovery, portraying emotions of uncertainty through images taken from her outside patio. #lockdownart

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#Classof2020 finalist ✨
Hear about the experience of Catalan-Peruvian photographer and #emergingartist Lidia Huerta under lockdown as she talks about Simone de Beauvoir, adjusting to socially-distanced photo shoots and the importance of light in her work.
https://t.co/CMQReoYLMX

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This is the last piece Rhea worked on before lockdown: “I started work on my Compost series where I photograph still life portraits of my weekly wet waste... I have been able to continue with it and it has brought me a lot of learning and peace in its calm creative process.”

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Class of 2020 finalist✨
Rhea Gupte is a visual artist, photographer, and writer. Generating minimal waste and living mindfully are values which inform her ideas as well as her way of life. Read about her experience as an emerging artist during lockdown: https://t.co/blibJHAiK1

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It is the last week of our artist poster sale with #BetweenBridges 🚨

Visit our store for £50 artworks by international artists such as #NjidekaAkunyiliCrosby and #ThaoNguyenPhan, all proceeds go to supporting RUYA MAPS

https://t.co/aAuPkL1M9H

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Watch the recording of our event for #RefugeeWeek, a screening of the #shortfilm 'Intathirha (Wait for her)’ followed by a conversation between the artist Majd Abdel Hamid and curator Tamara Chalabi.

#Imagine #PalestinianRefugees

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