kasini

Lucky Beads

Street people and artists are two archetypes that society imbues with magic, probably because, like The Bead Lady, street people and artists use mystique as a defense against “petty meanness”….Both are living outside of societal norms. Both struggle to eke out a...

Their Charm Awaken

Writing

Sara Willadsen invited me to write the forward to the catalog that accompanies her exhibition, “Boundaries:New Work by Sara Willadsen” at Frank Juarez Gallery, September 8 – October 20, 2018. The catalog can be purchased HERE. Their Charm Awaken...

Not Ideas About the Thing, But the Thing Itself and Pictures of It

Art

Not Ideas About the Thing, But the Thing Itself and Pictures of It. Conceptual installation by Ric Kasini Kadour STATEMENT Not Ideas About… trades on the Wallace Stevens’ poem of a similar title and plays with ideas about art, objects, and images. I...

Kolaj Magazine

Cultural Work, Ongoing Projects

Print Magazine and Community Organizing Project 2011 to present | www.kolajmagazine.com Kolaj Magazine is an internationally-oriented, printed, quarterly magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how...

What Will Be of Us

Art, Photography, Zine

“What Will Be of Us” is a continuation of the series, “I Keep Myself Together”, in which Kadour pairs photographs with texts to evoke a response in the viewer. “I am interested in the isolation of contemporary life and the sometimes...