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Younes Baba-Ali's sound installations demand to be heard before they remain to be seen. Having trained as a technician and musician, he naturally developed an affinity for sound and its propagation within space. In all of his work, Baba-Ali seeks to directly confront the visitor to its haunting presence, turning him into a participant of the piece and making him reconsider previously familiar objects.
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Castles used to have this strange purpose in the world where they were built by men for men, sometimes to protect, others to defend, often to impress or intimidate each other. As trapped in some kind of time capsule, they now carry an increasingly mythical self-fictionalization, reinforced by the commodification of their image.

Miranda Maher is an American artist who has recently adopted the theme of birds as a way to explore how idiosyncrasies of the human psyche often stands unexamined and uncorrected. To see more of her work registered on Saatchi Online click here.

Paolo Patrizi's photographic documentary stories explore the contradictions between traditions and modernity and cultural disconnections produced from too rapid economic growth common in the so-called developed world.

Laurence Kavanagh's work digs deep into the bygone golden era of film noir and sci-fi literature. His latest project, 'The Lonely House' (2008) is a six-room installation based on scenes borrowed from a series of post-war romantic drama classics. To see more of his work on Saatchi Online click here

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Margaret O'Brien manipulates domestic objects drawn from the everyday to create technically impressive and emotionally effective installations, which activate certain characteristics of psychological dysfunctions creating a sense of anxiety and spatial disorientation. To see more of her work on Saatchi Online click here. ... read more...