In the Studio Cecilia Vicuña, New York

Cecilia Vicuña’s practice moves fluidly between poetry, sculpture, textile, and performance, always returning to what she calls arte precario: an art built from debris, unspun wool, feathers, and stone that she has been making since 1966. Rooted in Indigenous Andean knowledge systems, and above all in the khipu—the knotted cord long dismissed as a mere accounting device—her work reframes precariousness and fragility as forms of consciousness rather than loss.

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In the Studio Robin Kid, Rambouillet, France

Robin Kid works with images that feel less made than encountered. Cowboys, cops, fragments of cartoon Americana: images that existed long before he picked them up, suspended somewhere between memory and mass culture. Raised in the south of the Netherlands by his grandparents, in a former mining neighbourhood bordering an American army base, he grew up with the idea of the U.S. glowing faintly from the other side of the fence.

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In the Studio Megan Plunkett, Los Angeles, CA

American artist Megan Plunkett turns away from depicting people, instead focusing on everyday objects. Drawn from consumer culture, and the film industry, her carefully constructed photographic series cultivate a sense of estrangement within things that might otherwise feel familiar.

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Collector Stories Lukas Jakob, Gundelfingen, Germany

Lukas Jakob started his private collection of Contemporary Art in 2016 by buying a tie by Katharina Grosse. His last acquisitions, however, are incomparably larger: he now concentrates on expansive installations. His residence in the tri-border area between Germany, Switzerland and France gives him a regional and international outlook on art.

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Tove Storch, Copenhagen
A clash between the delicate and the brutal, the vulnerable and the unrestrainable. Danish artist Tove Storch employs unconventional materials, such as body soap, to test the boundaries of sculpture while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes.
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