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SAVANT
ART MAGAZINE
WRITTEN ARTICLES
BY SOPHIE NOWAKOWSKA


What do you do when your love bleeds out through your sleeves?
Written by Sophie Nowakowska What do you do when your love bleeds out through your sleeves? Or when your teenage self looks back at you. With admiration. Interest. Hesitation. How do you forget the ones that once meant everything, and now they are gone? Living their lives somewhere else. With someone else. This is where Parks Sadler’s work is situated. He doesn’t see himself as a sculptor, or a photographer, or even a transmedia artist. He works with memory, intimacy, vulner
Jan 28


When the Body Becomes the Work
Review of Yilun Liu’s art practice by Sophie Nowakowska Can the artwork exist without the audience? I return to this question often when I think about Yilun Liu. Can a work exist without the people who enter the space and breathe inside it? And what unfolds when the performer’s body becomes the central material, moving through an environment shaped for it? What shifts when that body begins to choose for itself? Authorship becomes the question rather than the answer, and the
Dec 5, 2025


On Labels, Authorship, and the Art of Haochen Ren
Written by Sophie Nowakowska In museums, we’re told, quietly but persistently, that whatever is in its space is art . The institution...
Jul 29, 2025


Critical review with Ayodeji Kingsley
Written by Sophie Nowakowska Originally from Nigeria and now based in Derby, Ayodeji Kingsley has developed a unique artistic voice that...
Jul 20, 2025


Between Presence and Absence: The Vital Worlds of Yula Kim
Written by Sophie Nowakowska To encounter Yula’s work is to step into a dream just before waking, when forms blur, meanings flicker, and...
Jul 9, 2025
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