Ahead of her upcoming show in Mexico City, Rio-born multimedia artist Pauline Batista discusses her previous exhibition, ‘Methylene Blue Dreams’, and how her work blends medicine, fantasy, and the human form to challenge our constant drive towards self-optimisation. Clelia Reka Frondaroli A vial of methylene blue sits suspended […]
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“Quba!”, the film that followed the Cuban rainbow
The legalisation of same-sex marriage in Cuba did not erase decades of discrimination or the contradictions of a revolution that persecuted part of the LGBTQ+ community. In “Quba!”, American filmmaker Kim Anno reconstructs the path towards legal recognition through the voices of those who sustained that struggle. Pablo Muñoz […]
Brazil: From social media to the streets for Lula
The re-election campaign of Brazil’s current leader has a new element, which is a strategy that seeks to intervene in one of the main challenges of the second term: convincing indecisive voters through digital methods, encouraging participation of those who abstain and keeping mobilised those who already know who they […]
The earthquake that sowed fear and uncertainty in Panama
In Tonosí, Macaracas, Torio and Búcaro, the earth stopped shaking, but fear sleeps in the plazas, the cracks spread across roads and drinking water is one of the main concerns of the inhabitants of the communities hit hardest by the earthquake that struck this Central American country on 9th October. […]
Migration and citizenship: learning London from scratch
She arrived from Poland in December 1999 without knowing the language and went through poorly paid jobs before finding her place in the British capital. Now a recruiter, she enjoys its theatres and pubs and has just passed a test whose historical facts, she admits, she barely remembers. Will […]
















