Nini Barbakadze

AboutShopAdvertisingContact Language AboutShopAdvertisingContact Language Samson Bakare - Let This Be a SignWords by Nini Barbakadz Share00 Interview tak­en from METAL Magazine issue 48. Adapted for the online version. Order your copy here. One look at Bakare’s work that remixes the visual signifiers from Pop Art, Impressionism, Dadaism, comics and manga, Coptic art and NOK art, it is easy to rest assured that, yes, he can tell time and things about the kind of time we live in also.

RIKA KIM “The fashion industry is like a strong flash. It’s splendid, but the shadow is dark. I feel like it chases fantasy but avoids talking about real life,” says Rika Kim. The Royal College of Art graduate grew up in a conservative family in South Korea, which is often called the world’s cosmetic surgery capital.

The Drawer by Vince Aletti (SPBH Editions, £45) Vince Aletti, who worked as the art editor of The Village Voice for nearly a decade...