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The 17-year-old US artist Panteha Abareshi struggles with sickle cell disease, a chronic pain condition that prevents her from exerting herself physically, and frequently involves severe anxiety and depression. Her emotionally raw and graphically vibrant art confronts the role of pain and vulnerability in her life, depicting unflinching and unapologetic ‘physical manifestations’ of her inner struggles that she ‘can’t quite verbalise’. Through her work, she aims to both increase the visibility of women of colour dealing with mental illness, and to fight against the notion that pain is something that can simply be thought away.
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Design and fashion
The mundane becomes mesmerising in this deep dive into segmented displays
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Physics
A song of ice, fire and jelly – exploring the physics and history of the trumpet
9 minutes
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Architecture
Tour the European architecture that dreamed of a wondrous, fictitious China
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Spirituality
Trek alongside spiritual pilgrims on a treacherous journey across Pakistan
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Animals and humans
An artist and ants collaborate on an exhibit of ‘tiny Abstract Expressionist paintings’
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Meaning and the good life
The world turns vivid, strange and philosophical for one plane crash survivor
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Cities
The rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong’s infamous urban monolith
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Art
Inside the unique creative space where ‘outsider’ artists find their form
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Physics
A dreamy tribute to the music of Brian Eno, rendered in paint, soap and water
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